In association with Amazon.com
|
by: P G Sarang, Kyle Gabhart, Andre Tost, Tim McAllister, Rahim Adatia, Matjaz Juric, Ted Osborne, Faiz Arni, Jeremiah Lott, Vaidyanathan Nagarajan, Craig A. Berry, Dan O'Connor, John Griffin, Aaron Mulder, Dave Young
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 005
EAN: 9781861005083
ISBN: 1861005083
Label: Wrox Press
Manufacturer: Wrox Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 1200
Publication Date: 2001-07
Publisher: Wrox Press
Sales Rank: 1207588
Studio: Wrox Press
Related Items:
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) are a container-based component architecture that allow you to easily create secure, scalable and transactional enterprise applications. Developed as session beans, entity beans, or message-driven beans, EJBs are the critical business objects in any J2EE application.
Professional EJB shows how to develop and deploy EJB applications using both the 1.1 and the new 2.0 specification. The addition of container-provided services, such as container-managed persistence, and security and transaction management, are covered in detail. As well as implementation details, the book also provides a number of strategies and patterns that can be applied when designing your EJB applications. Subsequently, it also suggests steps for taking existing EJBs and improving their performance.
Finally, the book recognizes that one of the most difficult areas of EJB development is the deployment process. Thus it demonstrates how to deploy your EJB applications to some of the leading EJB containers including BEA WebLogic, IBM WebSphere and Sybase EAServer.
This book covers:
The fundamentals of EJB development, including session beans, entity beans (BMP and CMP), and message-driven beans
EJB services such as resource management, transactions, and security
Designing EJB applications using patterns, strategies, and UML
Improving EJB design through testing and performance
Integrating EJBs with J2EE, COM, and CORBA
Deployment instructions for leading application servers
Amazon.com Review:
Written for the experienced Java developer or manager, Professional EJB provides a truly in-depth guide to using Enterprise JavaBeans, including versions 1.0 and 2.0. Filled with practical advice for good design and performance and plenty of useful sample code, this title is one of the best available guides to working with this powerful component standard.
While some titles on EJB are long on theory and short on the nuts and bolts of actually deploying and running beans on real platforms, this book distinguishes itself with plenty of practical code as well as the XML descriptors needed to deploy each sample. (With EJB the genius is in the details--more so than with most programming topics--and the authors supply the necessary deployment specifics here.) Weighing in at over 1,200 pages, this text is massive but exceptionally well paced. The Wrox team of authors have assembled a simply excellent tutorial for building and using EJB, beginning with the version 1.0 standard. The authors start with session and then entity beans, exploring features built in to today's J2EE-compliant application servers. Coverage of the EJB 2.0 standard, along with new topics like messaging beans and the Java Message Service (JMS) comes later.
Besides actual source code and an excellent case study for an online movie ticket booking application, several chapters explore design issues with EJB in detail. At this point in the book, there is an excellent section on a half-dozen reusable EJB design patterns. There's also plenty of advice for squeezing more performance and scalability out of today's J2EE application servers.
Later chapters turn toward newer technologies like wireless and Web services, and how to integrate EJB with two older distributing computing standards (COM and CORBA). There's coverage on installing and running some of today's most popular J2EE application servers, from BEA WebLogic, to IBM WebSphere Application Server, to the free, open-source JBoss alternative. (In theory, any properly designed EJB will run on any server, but it helps to get some help with each J2EE application server platform.)
Overall, the focus on running EJB in real application servers helps makes this book a success. Professional EJB will be a good refresher for those making the transition to EJB 2.0, as well as those developers who are new to Sun's powerful component standard and want to get it right in a hurry. --Richard Dragan
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Initial chapters were OK then ...
I'm beginner in EJB.
Initial chapters were OK , which I was able to run all of them.
But in Chapter 5, written by Daniel O'Connor doesn't even work.
The source code in the book is different upsidedown from downloaded source code from Wrox.
What is good for if I'm not even able to execute due to bug in source file.
Rating:  - Great coverage of EJB's and 2.0
I picked this up last summer as it was the only book at the time offering coverage of EJB 2.0.
In the tradition of Wrox books, it offers good coverage of the entire EJB API. While some topics weren't covered exhaustively, that is not what these books are for. This book does provide *effective* coverage of almost everything in EJB 2.0. There is also coverage of design, which is a nice addition!
It is GREAT for it's intended purpose. Highly recommended...
Rating: - Outstanding - Very Detailed
This is one of the best books I've read in a long time. It is extremely detailed, clearly written, and well organized. If you're looking for a brief introduction to EJBs, this is probably not your best choice. But, if you want a thorough coverage of EJBs, this is a great choice. The book even covers EJB 2.0 which is not yet covered in most books.
Rating:  - not so good
First 4 chapters of this book are confusing, compared
to other ejb books from oreilly. don't pick this book
if you want to learn ejb better.
Rating:  - Very pleased with this purchase
I agree that this book is very good at covering the topics that it sets out in the outline.
This covers the EJBs in great detail - both 1.1 and 2.0. The knowledge of the individual authors definitely does come through - I have not purchased a Wrox title before, but I rather like the idea of multiple authors working on a book - I find the different views and experiences very powerful.
I did find that at times it did gloss over topics - I would have liked more information ... Read More
|
|
|
