Customer Reviews

Programming with Enterprise JavaBeans, JTS, and OTS: Building Distributed Transactions with Java and C++

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3 star:		(2)
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1 star:		(1)

 

 

(This is my second review of this title. My first review was removed because the publisher allegedly addressed some of my concerns and Amazon.com thought my review would be misleading. On with the new review.)

This book is not about EJB. It is about transactions and CORBA. It seems likely that the EJB portions of the book were thrown in, and the title arranged, to sell more copies.

The book was edited very poorly. Words are misspelled, articles omitted, and sentences mangled. This all makes what little content that exists very difficult to read. Perhaps if you get a later revision some of these problems will be addressed.

The sections on EJB are poorly written, repetitive, and thoroughly shallow.

The sections on CORBA and transactions were still difficult to read, but seemed to have more depth.

I should add that the book reads like an advertisement for Inprise products (both authors have backgrounds with Inprise).

I gave the book two stars instead of one because I think I learned something about transaction processing.

This is a very poor EJB book and not worth your money. Perhaps someone else will give a good review of the portions of the book dealing with CORBA and transactions.

The book goes into great details of OTS. The topic on EJB is too shallow and doesn't even scratch the surface.

This is a good book for OTS hence the 3 stars.I must admit that I learned a lot about transaction management from this book

This is also a mouth piece for Inprise products. The authors only talk about the Inprise implementation as if they are the only true implementors!

I always read the standard first as it is the definitive reference ( as I recall I have done that for several months now over and over I believe). I just finished reading the Vogel & Rangaro's book and I realised it would have saved a lot of my pondering over all the implications stemming from the EJB JTS/OTS architecture. It is a very good book especially for the ones that have prior CORBA experience. I did not like some pictures implying that containers live outside (or next to) server entities (like 5.1) but that is a minor implementation defined issue. Other than that it is a _highly_ recommended reading. Five stars on my side. No doubt. That is my personal view.

Not much deep coverage on EJB's and JTS. But OK for OTS. In my opinion, java side of the book is weak . You can find sample code for EJB's (session beans, entity beans etc) and JTS on the web. You dont need to buy a book for just read code. I would expect more detail in this book.

This book is not about EJB or JTS. It is about OTS, and the rest was thrown into the title for buzzword effect.

This book has way too much filler

This book tackles OTM's and JTS. Which are the challenging parts of EJB, rather than a re-ieration of the old 1.0 spec. (a.k.a. Valesky)

This book could not have come at a better time then now. Since, Internet technology and distributed computing in general is being accepted in the IT industry. The book starts out covering concepts and issues fundamental to distributed computing and gradually takes the reader through the specific details of Enterprise Java Beans, JTS, CORBA OTS and many other very useful design patterns. Finally, the book concludes with an actual application using Enterprise JavaBeans covering Stateless, Statefull and Entity Beans. The authors did a remarkable job of leaving out the extraneous details while maintaining the completeness and continuity of material covered. I am a "Picture Person", I found the book to be rich in useful illustrations. I would highly recommend the readings and comprehension of the first two parts, followed by trying out the third and final part of building the application. It will bring the whole picture in sharp focus.

This book could not have come at a better time then now. Since, Internet technology and distributed computing in general is being accepted in the IT industry. The book starts out covering concepts and issues fundamental to distributed computing and gradually takes the reader through the specific details of Enterprise Java Beans, JTS, CORBA OTS and many other very useful design patterns. Finally, the book concludes with an actual application using Enterprise JavaBeans covering Stateless, Statefull and Entity Beans. The authors did a remarkable job of leaving out the extraneous details while maintaining the completeness and continuity of material covered. I am a "Picture Person", I found the book to be rich in useful illustrations. I would highly recommend the readings and comprehension of the first two parts, followed by trying out the third and final part of building the application. It will bring the whole picture in sharp focus.

I've always found Andreas Vogel's books to be technically sound and good views of complex technology. Sorting out all the hype and promises about EJB was getting tiresome. This was the only book I have found to fully explain how to go about programming transactions using these technologies. A great book that I will refer to again and again.