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By Richard Monson-Haefel, Bill Burke, Sacha Labourey
Fourth Edition
June 2004
Pages: 788
ISBN 10: 0-596-00530-X |
ISBN 13: 9780596005306
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This authoritative guide includes everything that made previous editions of Enterprise JavaBeans the single must-have book for EJB developers: the author's solid grasp on the complexities of EJBs; hundreds of clear, practical examples; adept coverage the key concepts EJBs ; and diagrams to illustrate the concepts presented. The fourth edition also includes everything you need to get up to speed quickly on the changes in EJB version 2.1 as well as a JBoss implementation guide.
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Some practical problems, September 18 2005





I am trying to run the Entity Bean of Chapter 4 in JBoss and mySQL. I have followed all the instructions given in the book. However instead of titandb-ds.xml I have mysql-ds.xml file. I have created and copied the file jbosscmp-jdbc.xml to the folder src\resources\META-INF This file has <datasource>java:/DefaultDS</datasource>
What changes do I need to do to the file Client_1.java, especially to the statement Object ref = jndiContext.lookup("CabinHomeRemote"); Any other changes?
A good EJB 2.0 and 2.1 book, plus a good JBoss 4 workbook, May 06 2005





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.
Media reviews "This O'Reilly book gives Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) a new boost...This book is a great reference and instructional text on EJB. This new edition maintains its leadership as a concise discussion of this important area. The newly added JBoss Workbook is an encouraging trend...Recommended."
--Songmuh Jong, Kickstartnews.com, November 2004
Reviews From 3rd Edition:
"...an authoritative and thoughtful guide to EJB. His examples are clear and...very practical. His prose is informative and clear without being too simplistic for more experienced developers. The book excels by peeking beneath the covers and explaining some of the stranger 'features' of EJB while raising very valid concerns about the current inadequacies of EJB 2.0 [such as the almost useless EJB QL]. By raising such issues in a very well known book, hopefully EJB will take notice and be improved. All in all, this is the first book to look at when grokking EJB."
--GameJUG, Feb 2003
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