Mastering Enterprise JavaBeans [With Poster]

Who is this book for? 1) Someone who is already familiar with the basics of distributed computing, like RMI or RPC (not strictly necessary but it helps a lot) 2) You can program in Java (J2SE). 3) You want to understand the overall distributed, multitier architecture supported by the J2EE platform. What the role of middleware is within this architecture. What an EJB is and how it fits into the overall picture. And most importantly, how to write the code for an EJB (starting from a simple hello world example). This book is very good for understanding the big picture behind the J2EE platform. You'll know how it all works and how you can write and deploy server-side software components, aka EJBs. It will give you a solid foundation for understanding the basics so that you will be ready to tackle the more advanced topics. The book is well written. The ideas are clear, and diagrams are used extensively.

I own both this book and Richard Monson-Haefel's Enterprise JavaBeans (and others). Both are good, but this book reads much better--Monson-Haefel's book is a little dry doesn't tie stuff together as well. I use this book, along with The J2EE Tutorial from Sun, for a J2EE class I teach.The book covers not only the core EJB features (EJBs, transactions, security, deployment/environment), but also has chapters on clustering, best practices, how to choose an app. server, and how to organize an EJB project team. None of these additional chapters goes deep into the subject, but each provides an excellent overview and introduction. Since these topics are often barely mentioned, the 100+ pages devoted to these subjects is a welcome addition.The easy reading plus the breadth of coverage for related subjects makes this the BEST book for someone new or relatively new to EJBs.Even if you have experience with EJBs, this book is still useful. The addtional subjects, particularly the best practices, can teach an old dog some new tricks. The clear explanations in the book even helped me to explain the subject better to my students.

This is one of those rare books that is equally beneficial both to readers who are brand new to the topic and readers with substantial experience in the topic. EJB is a very large and challenging topic to explain to beginning EJB developers. The authors do an excellent job of explaining the concepts in a very clear and well thought out manner. The book is very focused on those topics that are most important to the beginning EJB developer and clarifies them wonderfully. I believe individuals who have already been programming EJBs for a little while will also enjoy this book as a way to add depth and clarity to their EJB knowledge. The author's inter-mingle a substantial number of "best-practices," and advanced issues that will be very interesting to the new and old EJB developer. If you have the time and patience to read a 1200 page book, "Professional EJB" by Wrox Press covers a lot more material and depth. However, if you don't have the time, patience, or desire to read a 1200 page book, this "Mastering EJBs" book is much more manageable and focused at 600 pages. The O'Reilly press "Enterprise Java Beans" book by Monson-Haefel is also quite good. However, like most O'Reilly books, I think it is actually too focused and doesn't provide a clear enough picture of how the whole EJB world fits together. So if you want a moderate size book with excellent explanations, good level of depth, and excellent insights, this book is it. Enjoy!

If you want to master EJB, then the Mastering Enterprise JavaBeans is the right book for you! It covers everything from basics of the EJB to the more advanced topics like transactions, performance and clustering. You will also learn how to choose the most suitable EJB server for your project.Thanks to Ed Roman, et al for the most comprehensive book about EJB technology. I would strongly recommend this book to the community.P.S. Don't forget to download the source code from TheServerSide.com and enjoy testing what you have learnt!

This is an excellent book written in a very readable, even engaging style. The best part about it is that it covers the subject of EJBs from soup to nuts. It starts with the rationale for EJBs, the component architecture, and who the key players are in an EJB deployment. From there the author drills down to explain the details of building beans and consistently explains his design decisions. He follows this up with a complete eCommerce example that includes servlets acting within the presentation layer to leverage the power of the beans. There are even supplementary chapters covering JNDI, CORBA, etc.I am hopeful that Mr. Roman will soon find the time to update his book so that it is completely in conformance with the EJB1.1 specification. Once he does this, I can recommend this book unreservedly.