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| Book: | Enterprise JavaBeans | |
| Subject: | A good EJB 2.0 and 2.1 book, plus a good JBoss 4 workbook | |
| Date: | 2005-05-06 03:37:28 | |
| From: | mregazzi | |
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This book, now at the fourth edition, is very well organized. First of all there is a good introduction to the primary services featured by the J2EE / EJB architecture, so you don't need to have a backgroud about this, but, obviously for every book of this kind, you need a strong know-how in enterprise programming. You cannot start to program in Java just reading this book. The book was written across two release of the EJB specification: the 2.0 and the 2.1 (now we are waiting for the 3.0 with a lot of new characteristics, such as a lighter container) and the author is very efficient in readily signaling differences between the two releases. Moreover the author is always very accurate in details description. Probably, this kind of attention, put the author in the condition of being quite redundant, but I think is tipical of US books (I don't know if this could be a problem, just think the book could be lighter, reading sometimes going work by subway). There is an interesting chapter about design (just an introduction) and another chapter about alternatives, such as Hinernate, and it's a good idea because you always need alternatives and seems that the author is not only an EJB evangelist. Thare is not a bibliography and you need to follow also course, or just read a book, about J2EE/EJB best practices or patterns (I prefer best practices, even if less fashionable) I think that the better idea that this book point out is the embedding of a second book: it includes a workbook that introduce the reader to the JBoss Application Server and helps him in the deployment and execution of the example using JBoss. The workbook is written by two JBoss "masters": they are Bill Burke, (do you know JBoss AOP ?) and Sacha Labourey (what about clustering features in JBoss ?). The two books are simply synchronized. |
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