Mastering Enterprise JavaBeans, 3rd Edition [Paperback]

Ed Roman (Author), Rima Patel Sriganesh (Author), Gerald Brose (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0764576828 | ISBN-13: 978-0764576829 | Publication Date: December 8, 2004 | Edition: 3

• Includes more than 30 percent revised material and five new chapters, covering the new 2.1 features such as EJB Timer Service and JMS as well as the latest open source Java solutions
• The book was developed as part of TheServerSide.com online EJB community, ensuring a built-in audience
• Demonstrates how to build an EJB system, program with EJB, adopt best practices, and harness advanced EJB concepts and techniques, including transactions, persistence, clustering, integration, and performance optimization
• Offers practical guidance on when not to use EJB and how to use simpler, less costly open source technologies in place of or in conjunction with EJB

Editorial Reviews

Review

Mastering Enterprise JavaBeans, 2nd Ed. by Ed Roman and Scott Ambler includes the new EJB specification and expanded coverage on more advanced topics for developers. (Publishers Weekly)

"...the style is informal, with clear explanations…an enjoyable read and good value for money..." (Computer Bulletin, September 2002)

“…explains Enterprise Java Beans in such a great way that it is worth the price of the book by itself…excellent web site too…”(Cvu, April 2003) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From the Back Cover

The bestselling classic is back-and covers the new EJB 2.1 specification!

Building on the overwhelming success of his previous two editions, renowned author Ed Roman has returned-along with Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) gurus Gerald Brose and Rima Patel Sriganesh-to offer you the inside scoop on the EJB 2.1 specification and related enhancements in J2EE^TM 1.4. Continuing the tradition of providing you with an unparalleled EJB tutorial, this expert team of authors has revised more than 30 percent of the book and added new chapters that explore the dramatic changes in the way EJB is now used for building applications.

Serving as the ultimate resource that boasts the most up-to-date information on EJB, this edition begins with the fundamentals of building an EJB. You'll learn about advanced EJB concepts and best practices that you won't find anywhere else, such as transactions, persistence, clustering, integration, performance monitoring, security, and choosing an EJB Server. Along the way, you'll get in-depth coverage of:

• EJB security mechanisms
• Best practices for EJB application development, deployment, and testing
• Tips for selecting appropriate Web frameworks and EJB containers
• EJB integration with back-end enterprise information systems using J2EE connector technology
• Performance optimizations for various types of EJB

The companion Web site includes sample code, updates to the book, and links to useful software used in the book.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 839 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 3 edition (December 8, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764576828
• ISBN-13: 978-0764576829
• Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 1.6 x 9.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (67 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,034,890 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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20 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent for beginners and more advanceed EJB readers, April 1, 2002

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Victor L. Peters (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mastering Enterprise JavaBeans (2nd Edition) (Paperback)

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!

16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good introductory book., August 8, 2002

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This review is from: Mastering Enterprise JavaBeans (2nd Edition) (Paperback)

I'm a software engineer, experienced with Java, server side programming and perf & scalability issues in general, and with both an academic and an industry background. New to EJB, which is why I read this book.

This book is actually 4 stars as an introductory book. It got me to up to speed with EJB, enough to understand it's programming paradigm fairly well. However, where I'm trying to go is to deeply understand perf. and scalability issues that will arise for large deployments (millions of users, for e.g) and exactly what EJBs offer in that area. Although clustering and transactions are discussed, the level of detail I need is greater - techniques for optimal caching are only skimmed, not thoroughly discussed. Additionally, one or more of the authors has this rather irritating habit of using the wrong terminology. Cases in point:
1) "The Halting Problem" of computer science is, rather cheekily exemplified by a program that blocks forever. Check it out for yourself from other sources - that is NOT the halting problem. It isnt that simple.
2) "Store and forward" is again, rather cheekily, described as "spool messages and send them when the queue comes back up". No, that is not what it is. Check it out for yourself from other sources. It is originally a networking term used in a different context. Simply because you are storing and forwarding doesnt mean you unilaterally christen your technique "store-and-forward", without investigating the original and well-known usage of the term.
3) "Reliability" in the term RAS (Reliability, Availability, Serviceability) is exemplified by - "if the simplest request takes 10ms to complete with one user, the system is reliable if the same request takes 10ms with 1,000,000 concurrent users.". That is NOT the definition of reliability. Reliability has more to do with fault detection and avoidance, not what is mentioned above, which seems more to do with throughput.
These are only a few of the incorrectly used terms. To most, I am only nitpicking. But for those who really want to go deep and do not want to waste 30-40% of their time reconciling terminologies, this is important. If the authors dispensed with trying to rename and falsely name common terms, their ideas would be communicated quicker, at least to audiences who are used to the well-known meanings of common terms.

19 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Search is over the EJB book is here!, January 29, 2002

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Abtin Afshar (Toronto, On) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mastering Enterprise JavaBeans (2nd Edition) (Paperback)

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!