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JBuilder 7.0 EJB Programming
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Author: Chuck Easttom
List Price: $49.95
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ISBN: 1556228740
Publisher: Wordware Publishing (August, 2002)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 274,295
Average Customer Rating: 3.86 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 4 out of 5
Pretty Decent Start
I have programmed in Java for a while, and actually already knew how to do Java Beans. A friend asked me to look this over. It has strengths and weaknesses. One strength is that its really easy to read and clear. You get a really good view of the concepts on EJB. However it is weak in the coding examples. They are very simplistic. It also does not cover the server side software needed to make EJB work. My advice is that if you are new to EJB And want to get up to speed quickly read this...but then move on to a more complex book for details.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Pity the text doesn't match the title
I have found this book to be very dissapointing. For someone who purchased this book to learn about EJB programming using the JBuilder 7 platform I was not very impressed to find that the majority of my time has so far been spent in trying to get the examples to run.
This is possibly because the examples were created using JBuilder 5. Even the downloaded source code that I have tried fails to compile.
This product was advertised as specific to JBuilder7 but appears to be a hash-over of some previous work. The author could obviously not be bothered to fully check out any changes between product versions.While the technical content of the first five chapters is a little daunting it gives an understandable view of where one is going, however working examples of the subject are what really gets one into the meat of a subject. The ability to see by example how the professionals approach a task is worth chapters of text. It is extreemly frustrating to find that the examples do not work, for whatever reason, and when studying the graphic dumps to find out why one can not find certain menu items, essential to the example, one discovers that the author has just rehashed the text from a JBuilder 5 project without even checking for any product changes. This does not elicit any confidence in the authors ability in this field.
Overall - rather disappointing.
Rating: 5 out of 5
EJB Development made easy
This book is really very good for new professionals to start building Enterprise Java Beans using Borland JBuilder. EJB is a technology that needs to be explained only to newcomers; once you know how to build EJBs, you don't need a book.This book discusses exactly what it is supposed to. In simple terms, this book may be named "EJB Development made easy". A book should not be viewed upon the number of pages it contains; rather it should be viewed whether it serves the purpose or not. This book serves the purpose. Nice Job Chuck !!!
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