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Enterprise JavaBeans by Example with CDROM

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This book is okay. The overall layout is clear, and it's really an easy read. This is both good and bad. I didn't leave from this book with a lot of deep substance. Some chapters seemed particularly irrelevant, like the future of EJB. That's nice, but a whole chapter?

I would recommend this as an easy read and very gentle introduction to anyone learning EJB.

I agree that this is a decent introduction, and an easy read.

I bought it to get some opinions about how to apply the EJB technology. Unfortunately, the section about applying EJB is purely about how to get IBM Visualage to generate EJBs for IBM Webshpere. Had I spent more time looking through it in the bookstore, I might have realized it is really just one of the dreaded "IBM Redbooks" with a fancier cover.

Buy it if you need a very simple introduction to EJBs or if you work in an IBM shop, otherwise look elsewhere. I bought the Berg's "Advanced Java 2 Development for Enterprise Applications, 2nd ed." the same day, and so far I've gotten much more mileage out of that purchase.

I'm still looking for the book on how to build a real system with EJB 1.1.

I agree with the reviews ... But ...these commentators must not have tried to follow the examples in chapter 10, "putting the theory to work". There is an outrageous number of errors in the step by step procedures to build the example project/beans. After many attempts (as an experienced Java programmer) I finally had to give up on going thru the examples. What is more aggrevating is that there was no attempt to make any errata available to correct these problems. Don't waste your money on this ... ripoff !!

It's mostly a summary of J2EE technologies. The examples don't really start until Chapter 10.

Complete waste of money--take a look at what people are willing to sell "new" books for in the used & new area -- not much.

There's a reason for that.

I'd highly recommend Enterprise JavaBeans Component Architecture by Gail Anderson & Paul Anderson instead.

I believed this book explains rather well how to create and deploy EJBs. It is not too techinical or boring and will get you going rather quickly being that you do not already have some project you need to complete. It contains a good example to enable anyone to get a good idea of what a EJB is all about. It does require that the reader have good working knowledge of java and application servers.

9/25/2001 I agree with the the reviews given before mine. This is the worst Java book I ever read. I am very disappointed with IBM to release such thing. Trust me, the first few chapters look very good. The material in the book is far from what it said in the title. That is it does not proceed by examples, but it concluded with examples at the end with very very little explanation and with a lot of errors. No software is provided in the book. IBM has changed a lot of stuff in the new version of software. I was trying to go through the examples for almost a week and I finally have to give up. I have to search for a new one.