- Paperback: 592 pages
- Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 3 edition (25 Sep 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0596002262
- ISBN-13: 978-0596002268
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 17.4 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,355,626 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Enterprise Javabeans enable you to support distributed business applications in which the components can be located on different platforms in various locations. This provides flexibility at the expense of complexity. An EJB is called by a client and interacts with any CTM (component transaction monitor) which supports the EJB specification. EJBs live in the middle tier of the three tier model: client presentation is the first tier, business logic (encapsulated in EJBs) in the second and database back ends are the third.
The author of Enterprise Javabeans, Second Edition is currently the lead architect for OpenEJB. He spends the first 80 pages describing distributed object architectures, and it's barely enough. The English language strains to encompass complex and unfamiliar relationships using familiar words. A book on this subject can read a little like a mediaeval grimoire, for much the same reasons. Fortunately, while this theoretical background is necessary to understand how EJBs work, most of the book is follows the development of an example EJB designed to be used by a company running a passenger liner. This enables the author to produce lots of demonstration code and to discuss the difference between entity and session beans (think nouns and verbs), stubs, skeletons, containers, XML deployment descriptors, JNDI Naming Context, transaction management, security models, data persistence and so on.
To benefit from Enterprise Javabeans you need basic Java skills, a good grasp of OOPs and some understanding of the data processing needs of large businesses. There is a need for a quick and dirty cookbook approach to EJB development, which this isn't. Most programmers just want to know how, but Richard Monson-Haefel ensures you know why as well. This makes for a harder, if more interesting, read, which does repay study on several levels.--Steve Patient --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Reuven M.Lerner, Linux Magazine, Jan 2001
An excellent introduction to the subject of EB.
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29 of 31 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Having just completed reading/practicing java servlet programming (also by o reilly) I was pleased to find that this book was also as accessible and as concisely written.
It demonstrates and explains the fundementals of EJB and helps the reader keep up with the latest developments (ejb 2.0), - for example container managed persistance is not backwards compatible with 1.1.
All the major areas are covered, and the accompanying examples are excellent. -Highly recommended.
The first three chapters are essentially background material. However being relatively new to this area of java programming, they set the scene by describing the underlying technology, architecture and ejb runtime management.
Chapters 4 - 8 covers Developing enterprise beans, the Client View, Basic Persistence, relationships, and ejb ql.
Chapter 9 refers to EJB 1.1 spec, which probably is not relevant for new projects.
Chapters 10 -13 covers Bean-Managed Persistence, Bean-Managed Persistence, The Entity-Container Contract, Session Beans and Message-Driven Beans. Again, the examples are excellent.
Chapter 14, transactions, is one of the longer chapters that explains how they work in EJB. Although complicated , its clearly explained.
Chapter 15 is a priceless Design Strategies chapter that I expect would be useful even to experienced EJB developers.
The last 2 chapters, 16 and 17 cover xml Deployment Descriptors and J2EE. The former is an excellent reference and well organized, which aids understanding. The J2EE chapter is short, but gives a good overview how ejbs, servlets and jsp fit together.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I found this book to be generally ok. The only problems I ran into is that it can be a little wooly at times, and the way the examples are setup can be a little confusing.
It really is a book for people with a good working knowledge of Java. You'll struggle if you don't already know what your doing. But equally, I was pleased with the way it thoroughly explains the tech behind EJB.
It really is a book for people with a good working knowledge of Java. You'll struggle if you don't already know what your doing. But equally, I was pleased with the way it thoroughly explains the tech behind EJB.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Having read the previous eidition of the book, that covered EJB 1.0 and 1.1 specs, I am happy to see the new edition has the comprehensive, precise and well-focused content on EJB2.0 matters.
This really should be the "EJB in a nutshell", going alongside with Flanagan's "Java in a nutshell".
Sections on EJB2.0 CMR (relationships), inter-bean references and EJB-QL cover those fragmented pieces of information in the EJB spec in a one contiguos and reader-friendly manner.
Also the brief chapter on EJB patterns and usage strategies was a nice addition to this edition.
I would strongly recommend spending some money on this book, together with "core J2EE patterns" and "complete JSP refernece" for possiibly the most comprehensive reference of J2EE architecture, and its applications.
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A good EJB 2.0 and 2.1 book, plus a good JBoss 4 workbook
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... Read more
Published on 13 Nov 2004 by Matteo Regazzi
Clear and focused
I have tried many books on J2EE/EJB. I always dropped them, frustrated by their wooly wordiness. This wordiness often seemed to betray the authors' poor grasp of the... Read more
Published on 30 Jan 2003 by Andrei
Best info on the EJB 2.0 specification
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Published on 3 Sep 2002 by Michal Fabrici
Good book, shame about the mistakes
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Best EJB 2.0 Spec book available
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Very Good but dating
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Published on 7 July 2001
Absolute must for the EJB developer
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