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Developing EJB 2.0 Components
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Author: Pravin V. Tulachan
List Price: $49.99
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ISBN: 0130348635
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR (25 March, 2002)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 299,795
Average Customer Rating: 2.71 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 4 out of 5
As a EJB newbie, I found this book very helpful...
As a recently unemployed Java developer, I was at a local Borders looking at EJB books to update my skill. I picked several EJB books and then sat down with a coffee to find a easy to understand and a practical book. In my opinion the EJBs are too complicated and I was looking for hands-on book with step-by-step guide and this book was it. I was able to understand and start writing stateless session bean within few hours. I liked the fact Mr. Tulachan used Sun's J2EE Reference Implmentation, which is free, small and easy to use unlike commercial application servers that take over 150MB of disk space and require atleast 256MB -a bit complicated and difficult to use for a beginner like me.
The only negative from my perspective are the typos so be sure to download the errata.
As a beginner I found the step-by-step approach to EJB development very helpful and I hope it will also help me get a job as an EJB developer soon....
--raj
Rating: 2 out of 5
Could be a "must have", but...
I wish the author spent more time on the quality of the book and its contents, as opposed to just getting it out the door for JavaOne. I found it really annoying when I downloaded the errata of the book, it needed an errata itself too....Even if you only want to learn the reference implementation (which is what most of the book is all about), you'll have to compile/deploy the examples by trial-and-error. Correction for most of the technical errors have not made it to the errata either.
Rating: 1 out of 5
A terrible book
This book is probably one of the worst EJB book one can buy. It's short on theory and long on practical using Sun's J2EE. There are a lots of books better than this one. Eg "Professional EJB", "Mastering Enterprise JavaBeans". Both of the above books is very good on theory. For more practical book "Sam Teach YourSelf EJB IN 21 Days" is much better than this book.? Why because it uses weblogic 7 for the practical. Even though it is also short on theory but at least it's exercises are usefull in the sense you learn how to use it in Weblogic 7.0. Lastly, I am writing these negative comments about this book because the more pages I read from this book, the more I felt I got cheated.
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