Comments about oreilly Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0, Fifth Edition:

The book provides a very interesting overview of the EJB 3.0 specification. It covers all corners of it going from the basic parts to the more complex ones.Session and Message-driven beans are very well explained, as well as Entity beans and all its mappings to the relational model. The book also covers other services provided by the container: concurrency, transactions, naming, security, timer service. The last theorical chapters include an overview of Java EE, and an explanation about how to desing a real EJB-based system with a discussion of its pros and cons and recommending other alternatives when the technology is not suitable for solving our problems. The book also includes a practical part which is JBoss specific with working examples you can download from the web.As a negative thing, there are many little errors in the code samples along the whole book. They are not relevant, but they are so annoying.In conclusion, I recommend this book as a great reference of the EJB 3.0 specification.[...]

Comments about oreilly Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0, Fifth Edition:

Started to read it, and it is quite fluent

however, once I tried to perform exercise 1, both URLs for Jboss download and sample code download dont work.

heck of a start...

Comments about oreilly Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0, Fifth Edition:

Hello,

I have taken this book because I was interested in SCBCD 5.0. Many recommended this in JavaRanch.com.

Book is well organized. Reading from start to finish is what I feel is better.

Considering the number of silly and some major mistakes that took place in the book, I am of the opinion, they hurred the book printing.

I wish they had taken more care to eliminate the errors.

Especially for someone preparing for SCBCD 5.0, a mistake like incorrect Exception name for instance could mean a lot.

Srikanth Pragada.

Comments about oreilly Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0, Fifth Edition:

It seems that the book has not been carefully checked for errors

Comments about oreilly Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0, Fifth Edition:

This book gives an in-dept analysis of the state of Enterprise JavaBeans today. It delves into the mechanics of EJB and how all the components fit together. Its treatment of JPA is amazing. It also delves a bit into JBOSS implementation of the Specification. It is a wonderful book towering above its peers.

My only disappointment is with the treatment of the exercises. They are a bit too rigid and robotic. There was no attempt to vary the way clients access the Beans. The exclusive use of Ant build file to do all the packaging, deployment and running of the client is not helpful to those who use other build tools. Packaging is a critical area in EJB development that required more attention than was given to it in this book.

All-in-all if you are serious about EJB's, then this book is a must-have.