Customer Reviews

Mastering Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0

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4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(3)
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I've had this book for more than two weeks now and I should tell this book not much detail enough than the free ejb tutorial from sun site. The coverage is too shallow in detail and the authors comfortably skipped several newer features and using java persistance api in relation with using hibernate framework. if you are look to familiarise with ejb 3.0 this book will be nothing but a disappointment.

For a J2EE developer, this book spends too much on high-level introduction of EJB 3.0 spec and forgot to dive in the practical details of where, when and how to use them in a real-world ejb scenarios. I am also bit disappointed about this book as it does'nt add much value while comparing to Sun Java EE5 blueprints. This book also poorly explains the Java persistence API which one of the key ingredients of ejb3.

I downloaded this book from theserverside site. The examples are incomplete. But I like Pro EJB 3 by Mike Keith over this book.

Verbose and incomprehensible. Its a talk about how much better version 3 is compared to version 2. Good if you know version 2, you can follow the discussion. But absolutely useless for beginner.

When I downloaded this book for free from theserverside, I thought I could not go too wrong, after all it is free. After spending more than a week with this book I realized that I have wasted one week time "for free". Here are the problems with this book:

1) EXTREMELY verbose -- Paragraphs are repeated again and again and again with the same information, worded differently. It should be possible to cut down the number of pages in this book by more than 500% (make the book one fifth of what it is) without losing any information.

2) Very Superficial-- As against what you would expect from such a fat book on EJB, this book actually hardly covers any topic in EJB in details. There are too many open questions and so many important topics are not even covered.

3) Poor treatment of new Java EE 5 features -- For example how does @Resource injection really work? Not a single fully working example.

4) Maybe inaccurate -- I'm not too sure about this but the authors talk about the @javax.ejb.Interceptor annotation. This does not even seem to exist according to the EJB 3 API documentation.

I would have given it one star rating, but since the book is free, I give it two stars.

This was our course book and It helped me well more than a just a course book to prepare for my Distributed computing exams. Touches all the basic with good examples. The best thing I like is summary of chapters at the end gives a good touch of the lesson overall.

Ed Roman's Matering Enterprise JavaBeans books are excellent. Just be careful when you plan to purchase a book with a similar name....

I was monitoring Amazon for this book for a while. I have read the previous editions of this book and I found it one the best and successful books in this series. This book as well as its previous editions, covers all aspects of EJBs, framework and the services in fabulous level of details.

I found the previous version of this book very useful for passing the SCEA exam as it covers EJB concepts even better than SCEA materials themselves so this shows how this new edition has covered the EJB 3.0 concepts.

I really recommend this rare one of a kind book to people that would like to know more than just programming with Java EE and want to get more in-depth view of EJB and their internals.

I am new to EJB. And I have to tell you after reading this book I don't think I will need other references. I think this a great book for beginners and could be good reference for those who familiar with previous versions of EJB. I wish examples were more detailed.

Finally. A solid, practical review of EJB -- if you had given up on enterprise bean architecture because of past limitations, most stacks have much better implementations today. This book is a really solid reference and reminded me why I wanted to build in EJB in the first place.