Product Description

Covers the essentials a Java programmer needs to know to build practical EJB applications to be used in business.
Covers the enhanced features of the latest EJB release: EJB 2.0 debuted April 2001. This book covers the latest updates that came with that release.
Series features: Written in simple, easy-to-follow reference style and targeted directly at developers interested in getting work done with EJB.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #969307 in Books
• Published on: 2002-05-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 432 pages

From the Back Cover
Get up and running fast and start developing your own EJB solutions

Discover how to implement EJB security features

The ABCs of successful EJB programming – explained in plain English

Enterprise JavaBeans are a powerful tool for building distributed applications. But how do you get the hang of the complex EJB API? This easy-to-follow guide shows you the way. From understanding EJB architecture and containers to building and packaging session beans, entity beans, and message-driven beans, it delivers the know-how you need to get down to work.

About the Author
Residence: Portland, OR
Previous books: JavaServer Pages For Dummies
Employment: Mac is a full-time writer and consultant with his own company, Sextant Technology Consulting. Previously he had been a developer working for a variety of businesses.

Customer Reviews

Valuable introduction
This text brings the accessible style of the Dummies series to a challenging subject. As a peer reviewer of the book, I was initially skeptical that EJB could be treated in a clear, simple manner. However, this guide successfully balances clarity and completeness.

The focus is appropriately on EJB 2.0 CMP. Particularly useful are the practical recipes and checklists for essential tasks. Some of these tasks are overlooked by other EJB texts, e.g. packaging the application, defining Serializable parameters and loading JNDI properties programmatically.

Some advanced topics such as SessionSynchronization are touched on, ensuring that "EJB for Dummies" will serve as a useful reference over time.

The text is a good choice for Java developers at all skill levels who have some familiarity with J2EE and need a detailed introduction to EJB 2.0.

Not for dummies
An absolute waste of time. Its all very nice repeating what the EJB specification states but this is supposed to be for dummies.
Do not go near this book if you have not touched EJB's. Wait for or look for something like Visual EJB or similar.

Very good even if you know nothing about EJB
The book helped me to get to beans very quickly, I may need more prctice and another book, but this book gave me all I need to know as an EJB first-timer.