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WebLogic 6.1 Server Workbook for Enterprise JavaBeans (3rd Edition)

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I am afraid that the reader from Jackson missed the whole point. He confesses that he didn't "by" the book, just downloaded it. The downloadable version has about 150 pages missing. The whole purpose of this book is to let you study the live code up close and personal. This is NOT a tutorial on how to use WebLogic, (how deployment descriptors are generated is not important, how you write EJB 2.0 compliant code is important). I was able to run all the examples without much problem. This book is an enormous value for money and if you are already familiar with 1.1, can get you up and running with 2.0 in record amount of time (WITH appserver of your choice, to boot).

I used this book in conjunction with 'Enterprise Java Beans 3d Edition' to prepare for the Sun J2EE Architect certification. It was extremely helpful in the use of WebLogic and ALL of the examples worked as promised. There is also a yahoo users group to support the book where the author answers questions and gives encouragement (wouldn't it be nice if all authors took the time to REALLY support their books?) I'd recommmend this book to anyone struggling to get a handle on creating and deploying webapps on WebLogic. Used in conjunction with 'Enterprise Java Beans 3d Edition' you can't go wrong. I buy a lot of books, some are good, some are bad, some are excellent. This book is one of the latter. The combination of the two books is excellent and I got my certification.

This workbook is a companion guide to the book Enterprise JavaBeans (3rd edition) published by O'Reilly and written by Richard Monson-Haefel. This workbook walks the reader through installing and configuring WebLogic 6.1 as well as deploying the examples described in the EJB book.

This is a very readable book that explains some of the WebLogic-specific requirements as well as best practices for dealing with EJB's (EJB 2.0 spec) in a WebLogic environment. I highly recommend this book for anyone working with EJB's on the WebLogic application server.

If you are new to WebLogic or EJB 2.0 and want to learn either or both, there are few better hands-on learning source than this. You do need solid foundation on J2EE/EJB first, though. The author explains really well how's and why's of doing things certain ways and gives many useful tips associated with implementing EJB2.0 - especially on the Container Managed Relationship (CMR). The provided source programs are great too. As they say, you only learn by doing it. This one is highly recommended.

I currently am using this great 2-book combination to teach myself the fundamentals of EJBs. Learning J2EE is difficult because it is a specification, not a product. To learn it in a hands-on way you need an implementation, like WebLogic Server, as well as some kind of development environment. The great value of the Workbook is that it gets you started using WebLogic Server without forcing you to get involved with its complexities. This enables you to focus on mastering and applying the many complexities of the EJB API which is a task in itself. For anyone to delve more deeply into WebLogic, the best place to begin is the WebLogic documentation itself. It's quite good. I also recommend a new book, BEA WebLogic Server Bible.
But if you want to learn EJBs using WebLogic, this Workbook plus Monson-Haefel are excellent. I have found the companion website to be very helpful.

Overall rATE of the book: 5
AN excellent book and it does a great job of explaining the concepts to a beginner like me. There are a lot of solved examples that can walk the beginners through the steps. the book is well written and well structured.

Instructional rate of the books: 5
the book has good worked out or simple examples to do the things of interest. they also have screen prints of the menu for better benefit.

Reference value of the book: 4.

The book is well written and well structured. the book has a lot of sample code, solved examples and screen prints about configuring the server.

The books in its later chapters covers advanced topics such as creation of an entity bean, maintaining its statelessness, and using Java messaging services for real world applications.

the author has done an excellent job in creating this book for users of the weblogic server. I sincerely thank the author for making this book available for users like me.

I think this is a really good book. Overall I was able to get all the examples to work, and really learn how to use EJB 2.0 in WLS. I used it in conjunction with the Ed Roman book, but I guess the O'Reilly book would be good too. Overall, I definitely recommend this book to anyone who wants a step by step guide to EJBs in WLS 6.1

This workbook is a companion guide to the book Enterprise JavaBeans (3rd edition) published by O'Reilly and written by Richard Monson-Haefel. This workbook walks the reader through installing and configuring WebLogic 6.1 as well as deploying the examples described in the EJB book.

This is a very readable book that explains some of the WebLogic-specific requirements as well as best practices for dealing with EJB's (EJB 2.0 spec) in a WebLogic environment. I highly recommend this book for anyone working with EJB's on the WebLogic application server.

This WebLogic 6.1 Workbook was originally published by Enterprise JavaBeans author Richard Monson-Haefel's Titan Books publishing company. O'Reilly bought the rights to publish it and order to open it up for a wider audience

This is an excellent workbook demonstrating the examples from the 'Enterprise JavaBeans' 2nd ed. by Rickard Monson-Haefel for WebLogic 6.1. With EJB and WebLogic change so fast, books like this helps tremendously in showing new features of EJB and WebLogic app server, in a working, demonstratable fashion. Monson-Haefel's and Nyberg's books are such a thoughtful combination - one concentrates on showing intern workings of EJB with sample code and the other on making the same sample code work for a particular EJB container. In this way, the reader can not only have the cake, but also eat it! I really hope more books are published like this.

Personally, I ran majority of the examples as provided and they ran and worked. With the helps from Monson-Haefel's book and this one, I am now using the newest features from EJB2.0 (CMP, CMR, MDB). If there is anything more that I desire from the book, it would be examples of WebLogic app server specific features, such as WebLogic features for configuration, clustering, security, etc for EJBs.

Thanks for the great books, Nyberg and Monson-Haefel, and keep it up!

This book is the companion to Enterprise JavaBeans by Monson. First, this book is free for download (I didn't by it either). Second, it's almost not worth the time to download. I've found that the explanation for the examples don't work and there is no depth to the examples. I've tried to email the author but the yahoo email given bounced back. I'm surprised at the complete lack of topic and mention of real tools provided with Weblogic such as DDInit.ejb, DDInit.ejb20, etc. which create the deployment descriptor's under weblogic. This book simply explains how to install Weblogic (which is simply a few button clicks) and states that you should execute "ant" to build the beans with a predefined build.xml script. What are you really going to learn from that? I know I'm going to get a lot of flack from this post but I'm sorry, this book is definitly not worth a purchase. I'm suspect about previous reviews providing a five star rating.