Ejb Cookbook

by Mark B. Whipple, Benjamin G. Sullins, Mark B Whipple

A systematic collection of EJB recipes. Each recipe describes a practical problem and it's background. It then shows the code that solves it, and ends with a detailed discussion. Easy to find recipes range from the common to the advanced.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1930110944
• ISBN13: 9781930110946
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: Manning Publications
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Good reference

This book is for the experienced developer who wants to keep a reference at hand of useful patterns (or recipes). Good to have in the library.

Thanks for making a good cookbook !

Finally, one and only, the best cookbook. It has so many good code examples - finally developers will be able to quickly find a solution - perfect. Very clear, nice, neat, easy to read. I would like to see a cookbook by the same author about J2EE, e.g. best practice or most common techniques. Hopefully one day. If only it has more than 350 pages, please add more. I hope there will be a second part, with even more stuff in there.

Valuable resource in a convenient form

Although some of the recipes don't fit directly into the strict cookbook form this book is still an excellent resource for J2EE programmers. The author intends this book to be read by engineers with some EJB experience who encounter challenges or problems with EJB. The book organizes these problems into topics by chapter (e.g. transactions, security, logging, data access, code generation, etc.), and then presents each problem within the chapter in a standard form; problem, background, recipe, discussion, see also.If there is any fault to be found it is that some of the explanations are somewhat terse. It's not a structural flaw, however, since the purpose of the book is to provide brief answers to get you out of a tough jam.Chapter two, on XDoclet generation is noteworthy. The authors explanation of XDoclet and it's use in generating various EJB and J2EE artifacts is dead-on easy to understand. I also appreciate that he mentions it so early on because it is such an important part of EJB development.For J2EE developers, and more specifically EJB developers, this is a valuable resource for day-to-day development challenges. Well worth the money.

Software architect

This is an excellent book. Not only is it clear the authors are extremely knowledge but the organization of the book makes it easy to find the information you need quickly. The recipes not only provide the needed information to solve problems but also lead you to better overall design decisions. Also the intoduction to XDoclet was appreciated.

Excellent quick reference

This book does just what it claims. I don't need to read the whole thing to learn something new, I can open to any recipe. I just bought this book, and I really like it. I keep it handy while I am coding. It has a great index that makes it easy to find what I need. Definitely recommended.