Enterprise JavaBeans Component Architecture: Designing and Coding Enterprise Applications

Author: Gail Anderson, Paul Anderson
List Price: $49.99
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ISBN: 0130355712
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR (11 March, 2002)
Sales Rank: 195,133
Average Customer Rating: 4.6 out of 5

Customer Reviews

Rating: 5 out of 5
The BEST book on EJB 2.0 to date!
There is no other way to say this. This book is by far the best book on EJB 2.0 that I've read. There are also EJB 1.1 references, but they didn't mean much to me because I started with 2.0

I challenge anyone to even find a typo in this book. There has to be some I am sure, but try and find them. I do not agree with another review about the major flaw with this book. If you don't know how to create .war or .ear files you shouldn't be reading this book! Just my opinion.

I hope these 2 write another book on any Java technology soon! I will be the first in line to buy it!!

Rating: 5 out of 5
Great book
Technically, it's really a great book. Well written and very
informative. The description on the back cover, of the book,
summarizes it better than I could, so I will not repeat it
here ' see above 'Editorial Reviews'. In addition, this book
is one of the very few technical books that contains example
code with it all working, not just some of it. The code is
available by downloading it from the authors Web Site.

Rating: 4 out of 5
A decent book
It is not just an EJB book. It shows how to integrate JSPs with EJBs by using various EJB patterns through examples. The patterns include Session Facade, Value List Iterator, Data Access Object, etc. It also covers enough information about EJBs itself. The book differs from other EJB books in the market. Other books only focuses on EJBs itself, but this one talks about JSPs, EJBs, design patterns - it's kind of all in one. The only drawback of this book is sometimes it's very hard to follow. You cannot read it for too long, the flow is missing. May be it's just because the EJB architecture itself is too complex. Although, Ed Roman's Mastering Enterprise JavaBeans book makes learning EJB peace of cake. I wish this book was also written such a way.

There are verious reasons why I bought this book:

- It shows how to integrate your EJBs with JSPs.
- EJB design patterns are exposed.
- Fairly good examples.
- Good end of the chapter summary.
- Concise and well designed chapters.

The bottom line: It's a good book worths the price. If you don't have any EJB book, you can start with this one.

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