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Title: Applying Enterprise JavaBeans 2.1: Component-Based Development for the J2EE Platform (2nd Edition) by Vlada Matena, Sanjeev Krishnan, Linda DeMichiel, Beth Stearns ISBN: 0-201-91466-2 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 27 May, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $44.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.71 (14 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: New edition is excellent
Comment: This new edition of " Applying Enterprise JavaBeans" is a well written look at the Enterprise JavaBeans 2.1 specification. The explanations of the various topics are in-depth and yet easy to follow. The authors provide diagrams and supporting code samples demonstrating how to write the code for each topic covered. They also provide explanations of when a particular technology is appropriate for your applications. The book even has a glossary so that if you forgot what an acronym stands for, you can look it up.
The book covers all the usual topics one would expect in a book on EJBs. It starts with a general overview and then takes a look at each of the various bean types. Session beans (stateful and stateless), message driven beans, and entity beans are each covered. An application example is discussed which includes packaging of the application for production. The following chapter covers integrating web services into your EJB applications. Subsequent chapters cover transactions and security. The authors have done a great job of explaining not just how to code EJBs but also how they work within an application server, which you need to know to use EJBs successfully.
The book is similar to the O'Reilly book in size and scope although this book has the advantage of being more current. Overall, the book is well written, easy to follow, and extremely useful. If you are new to EJBs or if you are looking for a book to bring you up to date on the new specification then this book will make a good choice.
Rating: 4
Summary: Useful but not the best EJB book
Comment: This book is similar in content to the Monson-Haefel EJB 1.1 book. For EJB beginners, it is somewhat more readable than the latter book, and complete blocks of code are given (for an entire EJB bean class for example) in the book pages. However, as a book that only covers EJB 1.1 spec and is not application server specific, it is rather late to the market and as a result its value is somewhat reduced.
The pluses of the book: the strongest selling point of the book is that it does an excellent job in explaining the EJB API (this may be attributed to the fact that the leading author of the book is a member of the Sun's J2EE architecture team). Things I find very useful include discussions on varies methods defined in the EJBObject and EJBHome and the Bean interfaces, the different life cycle behaviors among various type of EJB's, the container-bean contract, and container services such as transaction management and security control, all in a very clear manner. Although there is no integrated application in the book, unlike the Wrox Press's WebLogic book, the EJB design in this book is more sophisticated. The best practices of using value objects, dependent classes, helper classes, and database connection are all well-demonstrated throughout the code and clearly explained.
The minuses of the book: in addition to the ones I mentioned earlier, this book does not have a companion website to allow one to download the source code. It doesn't provide instructions to set up an EJB server to run the samples, and coverage on how to invoke EJB's from JSP and Java clients is limited.
My suggestion: if you are new to EJB and don't care too much about the upcoming EJB 2.0 CMP service and message-driven beans at this point, this is a good alternative to the Monson-Haefel book. On the other hand, if you already own other EJB books or have hands-on experience, I think you should wait for the 2nd Ed. of the book by Ed Roman et al. to come out in the summer. As a side note, from what I understand the new Roman book promises to cover all the new EJB 2.0 stuff and uses WebLogic 6.0 for its samples.
Rating: 5
Summary: Example-filled & highly practical
Comment: Now in its second edition updated to take into account changes in the EJB 2.1 specification, Applying Enterprise JavaBeans: Component-Based Development For The J2EE Platform is the collaborative effort of computer experts Vlada Matena, Sanjeev Krishnan, Linda DeMichiel and Beth Stearns, and the latest in "The Java Series" of instructional computer programming books endorsed an authored by the creators of Java technology at Sun Microsystems, Inc. Covering support for Java Web services, security management, message-driven beans and integrating with Java Message Service, transaction management, EJB query language, and much more, Applying Enterprise JavaBeans is a hands-on, example-filled, highly practical and enthusiastically recommended instructional and reference resource.
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Title: Core J2EE Patterns: Best Practices and Design Strategies, Second Edition by Deepak Alur, Dan Malks, John Crupi ISBN: 0131422464 Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Pub. Date: 10 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Mastering Enterprise JavaBeans (2nd Edition) by Ed Roman, Scott W. Ambler, Tyler Jewell ISBN: 0471417114 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 14 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: J2EE(tm) Technology in Practice: Building Business Applications with the Java(tm) 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition by Rick Cattell, Jim Inscore, Enterprise Partners, Enterprise Partners ISBN: 0201746220 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 04 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Struts in Action: Building Web Applications with the Leading Java Framework by Ted Husted, Cedric Dumoulin, George Franciscus, David Winterfeldt, Craig R. McClanahan ISBN: 1930110502 Publisher: Manning Publications Company Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $44.95 |
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Title: Bitter EJB by Bruce Tate, Mike Clark, Bob Lee, Patrick Linskey ISBN: 1930110952 Publisher: Manning Publications Company Pub. Date: 15 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $44.95 |
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