EJB 3 in Action

I don't understand why some people put one star on this book. I recently bought this book and read couple charters yet. It is one of the best wrote technology books that I have read. It makes complex topic easy and while complete.

This is THE book, EJB 3 in Action , to learn EJB 3 and get up to speed to start using it in your projects right away! It covers all aspects of EJB 3 in details with enough readable code snippets that is both easy to understand and implement. I highly recommend this book for both beginners and intermediate developers equally. The only thing I didn't like about this book is its fluffy writing style. Its not concise or succinctly written. I believe contents covered in this 600+ pages book could easily be put together into 400 pages based on other technical books I have read in my 16+ years of career. But hey if you can live with that one oddity about this book go ahead and read it- you will not be disappointed!

The book is well written conceptually. You can expect to learn everything ejb3 has to offer. Concept is the only thing this book is strife at. The book itself, however, is not very practical. If you need to be practical and understand every single bit of detail the author is stressing about, you will need to spend 30min to 2hour for each chapter on the accompanied source code. Do not expect the source code to be compatible on every version of ejb containers though. Take case for JBoss, the source code is configured to run on 4.24 which means for newer versions of JBoss, you are on your own. The accompanied code itself also contains documentation errors. Take case in Chapter 2, the instruction file 'readme.txt' is an exact replica of Chapter 3's readme.txt file, which means user has to do some investigation on the build.xml in the folder before he/she is able to run the application. For reader who doesn't know about apache ant, he/she will be left in hopeless wander or some research on apache ant. Every book written has an error, if you are a 'debugger' or 'investigator', then this book shall be an interesting read. It is never 'enjoyable' due to its verbose references.

This book is really good for starters I specially liked the migration section from EJB 2 to EJB 3 and the integration section with Spring It's quite a big book though... i would rather have a workbook section (like in Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0 from O'Reilly) instead of some appendixes. I found minor errors too... All in all 5 stars for a beginner

I have been working with Enterprise Javabeans for many years. This really is by far the best resource to date on Enterprise Javabeans. One of the many strengths of this book is to show how the Springframework blends into the EJB framework. I have had a lot of success in blending these frameworks. The authors really believe in the EJB framework unlike another major author of EJB books.

I'm about to discuss the fact that this book is very tedious and lightweight. This book is very tedious and lightweight. Everything (and I mean everything) in this book is foreshadowed with a comment about what they're about to say followed by a recap of what they said. Worse is the fact that the intervening material is frequently very shallow and cursory. That concludes my brief discussion of how tedious and lightweight this book is. Next, I'll comment about how long it takes the authors to get to the point. Earlier comments about this being a 100 page book expanded into some 600 pages are a slight exaggeration. But I'd bet good money that even I could compress the first 70 pages of this book into 7. That concludes my brief discussion of how long it takes the authors to get to the point. Etc... Etc... I recommend that you buy a different book. I will.

Pretty good book for getting into EJB3, much better than any other EJB3 books on the market.

In the following chapter I am going to say a few words of comment on the EJB3 in action book. I sooo loved the 1-star review of this book by Peter B. Bonem, who says the book is constantly previewing it's content, and retrospecting on what has been written. It's at least 4-5 times too many pages with respect to material introduced, the language is tedious at best, and the coverage of material is shallow. Editorial job hasn't been of the best quality either, there are shameful elementary school level errors in language here and there. I'm doing the practice exams from Oracle now for the SCBCD after having read this book almost entirely (which I consider an achievement in its own right), and it hasn't been too helpful - there are details in the test questions that haven't even been mentioned, let alone thoroughly covered. All that said, had I bought this book with different expectations, maybe I would've been more satisfied with it. Thus 2 stars and not just 1 (which was my initial mark) - maybe as a tutorial "ejb 3 for the dummies" this book would do almost fine, but as exam preparation it underdelivers completely. Shame I found it recommended for this exam study. Go read the EJB3 spec - way more readable, and free. This concludes what I had to say about the EJB3 in Action. I've said that I found the language level less than satisfactory, the content shallow and the book size/book content ratio insufficient.

This book is fantastic! the content don't covered in detailed manner the argument's related to ejb 3 in action for example the chapter related to AOP is very poor but all the content is clearly too many helpful. There are also some chapter that contains argument like transaction wich explain thinks very well (see Transaction Manager at chapter 6). At least i suggest this book to other users? Absolutly!! p.s. the Manning series "In action" was lost the initial 'charm' but with this book it's appear now!

The book covers entire EJB paradigm. Provides deep knowledge about the topic. Highly recommended in case you want to develop a clear understanding.

Very well written. Well designed book with a captivating style of writing. Authors have the ability to explain complex concepts from the ground up making them easy to grasp.

This book is pack full with information, not so much for the advanced programmer (though there are references to delve deeper into anything that interests you). Moreover it uses a bit of humour (which is a good thing) and the usual example of an e-shop (that might actually be the real life problem of many programmers). I was very satisfied by it.

i think it 's a good book for intermediare java developer .i have already readen the head first EJB book , it was a waste of time comparing to this book.