Comments about oreilly Head First EJB:

I did like this book, but then now I want a EJB 3.0 version. When can I expect one?

Also I wanted a Head First for Spring!

Comments about oreilly Head First EJB:

Gosh, outdated 5 years after it was released? Who'd have thought...

Even if the exam isn't current any longer there are still many applications using EJB2 and thus many people having to maintain those applications.

For them this is still an excellent book.

It's not perfect. IMO it's a bit too specific to the implementation of Sun's appserver, but given the original purpose of the authors that can't hardly be held against it.

Comments about oreilly Head First EJB:

This is a handy get your feet wet book to the EJB world. There were numerous typos/errata instances, which made me wonder, at times, if they were in a rush to get this thing out. I wish they had a book that covered the EJB 3.0 spec released almost 2 years ago! The SCBCD people state the following: Please note that Sun will discontinue purchase of this exam effective February 29, 2008. They are referring to the exam regarding the EJB 2.0 specification. If I had it to do over again, purchasing this (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9781933988344/index.html) or this (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/entjbeans5/index.html) seems like a better/safe choice, since 3.0 should be simple enough to learn without the Head First experience.

Comments about oreilly Head First EJB:

After having read about the Head First books on the internet, I felt that it would be most appropriate to buy Head First EJB and Head First Servlets & JSP since I wanted to learn some Java EE.

However, I ended up spending more time reading the different specifications (which was a good thing), in order to verify and clarify the things in the books.

The books are full of errors (take a look at the errata for this book, for instance) and though there are aspirations to thoroughly explain things, with many illustrations (which is good), I were left with the feeling wondering if the authors themselves had really understood what they were trying to teach.

With a solid reasoning and less errors, the style of the book wouldn't have bothered me. Now it seems like more effort was put into the aesthetics, rather than the contents. With this in mind, the style soon becomes tiring.

Another significant drawback is the fact that this book is not available in electronic form - quite old-fashioned and very annoying when wanting to do some reading while "on the road".

Comments about oreilly Head First EJB:

Made learning EJBs an interesting affair....who'd have thought that was possible :) I benefited hugely reading this book when I didn't know much about EJBs...and when you're reading this book (or any book from this series) ...you feel like the book can read your mind and explain anything that bothers you at the right time. I'll buy every book these guys write. Huge fan!! :))

Comments about oreilly Head First EJB:

Hi all,

I like the HEAD FIRST series.

HOwever, I am having a problem finding what RI is(I guess an J2EE app server, but I can't find it on the net to download).

Or even when I compile my 2 interfaces and AdviceBean class I get 8 errors, package javax.ejb does not exist, EJBObject, SessionBean, SessionContext....

What am I doing wrong here? I have tried installing earlier versions of SDK and J2EE versions but problems are still there.

ANy help would be appreciated.

Comments about oreilly Head First EJB:

Head First is arguably the best of O'Reilly book series. With an easy, colloquial language and image-based examples and explanations, it makes simple to understand the almost understandable EJB 2.0. technology.

I own the EJB, Java and Design Patterns books and I'm very satisfied. The only "but" maybe would be the time they're taking to publish an EJB 3.0 edition.

Comments about oreilly Head First EJB:

It is just a wonder, It is just a miricle, Thank Orielly, Expect some more books on Java technology which follow the same pattren as this book, I despriatly need this way for learning UML.

Thanks once again

Amit

Comments about oreilly Head First EJB:

main concern at the moment: It needs to be updated. Now Java 1.5 is up and nobody is using 1.3 anymore.

So this is my request to O'Reilly, please update this book.

Comments about oreilly Head First EJB:

I am a beginer in EJB and found this series really perfect for a beginer.