One of the best J2EE Books
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I Just got this book. If you need to become an expert in J2EE, don't miss it. This book contains very good examples ( Servlets, JSP, JavaBeans, JDBC,....) that range from intermediate to advanced. Each topic is covered very well.
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This is one of the best Java reference/learning books I have found to date.  It is easy to read and understand and paired with volume 1 is a relatively complete core java reference for any developer.

I highly recommended this book if you are just starting out or looking for a good java language reference.
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Last week I downloaded the book's source code and got it to work within 15 minutes.  This morning I finally had a chance to read it.  Great stuff!  It is true to the title by focusing on things that are WebLogic-specific (like it or not, it is the market leader by a wide margin in the app servers space).  This book is an excellent companion to the other new book by Wrox, Professional Java Server J2EE Edition.
Having experience with servlets, JSP's and JDBC, and eager to take a plunge into EJB but don't know how?  Skeptical about the performance ramifications of moving to EJB's?  Wondering how to migrate business logic from PL/SQL stored procedures to session beans?  Unsure about whether to use session beans or entity beans to access data?  Trying to dedicde which database tables to model as entity beans?  Thinking to maximize the performance of entity beans?  You find answers to all the above questions and more in this book.  Every chapter is heavy-duty, and there is hardly any fluff in it.  The whole book evolves around an integrated e-commerce (Pizzas2Go) application, which grew from a straight forward servlets/JSP/JDBC app into a full-blown JSP/EJB/JMS/WAP app, with clear explanation of the design patterns and migration path.  This is very helpful to IT shops who are at various stages of adopting the J2EE standards.  The final chapters on performance testing in a stand-alone and clustered server environment are enormously informative.
Having read all EJB related titles published in the last 12 to 15 months, I waste no time here in recommending this book to anyone currently doing or thinking of doing EJB work using WebLogic.
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EJB design patterns by Floyd----What an Awesome Book it is...! i am an EJB architect working at Datacard Software India and i can't stop myself from writing out my excitement after reading the book..After developing a new Application(J2EE)server i thought i know a lot about EJB and J2EE, but now i realise i wouldn't have been anything without this book..Simply Awesome...What a superb way of explaining the things! Great...
I was only aware of Session Facade pattern but his book has sharpened my skills to a very splendid stage..As it is always true the really good design is the key of the success of any product ,this design patterns will help all developers to be real excellent and wonderful architects,i am pretty sure...Thanks Floyd
Premjith R
Datacard Software India
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I've been working on webapps for the past 3 years in PHP, Python, and most recently Ruby. I've been trying to learn J2EE and have found it very difficult to find a foothold, a solid piece of ground to get oriented as to how people write Java webapps. I tend to like tutorial-style books when learning a new subject, ones that pick a project and implement it step by step, explaining the importance and contextual relevance of each hunk of code along the way. Of the four or five J2EE books that I've read on O'Reilly's Safari, this book is by far the best one for my style of learning. Java webapps are unique in that there is such a wide variety of options for each layer of your application. The Model, View, and Controller layers are all completely independent, and the interfaces between them are all configurable. Not only are they configurable, but you can choose to implement the connections between layers in code, or by using xml configuration files. This is *very* different to any other framework that I've used, and the complexity and power it presents is immensely overwhelming.

Bergsten does an excellent job (in contrast to the Official J2EE Tutorial, imho) at presenting each concept with just enough background, context, and detail as is necessary for one to understand what is happenening at a given moment.

I really like the fact that all of the code is listed in its entirety in the text, with descriptions interspersed. I really dislike the style of tutorial that tells you to "download and install the source code" and then proceeds to discuss it. I find that by having the example provided to me, I tend to skip over the boring, but important, details and at the end of the read, I haven't retained much. I learn by "following along" and typing in the listings myself. It helps me to remember the concepts, and forces me to concentrate on what's happening.

I can't speak for how effective this book would be for someone who already knew J2EE in some capacity, but for me, a J2EE newbie who likes a hands-on, applied approach, this book was the perfect fit.
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This is a good book when you have a good understanding of J2EE otherwise I would recommend to buy a basic one.
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This is considered one of the best java books ever, since the first edition. Now it is revised and updated to the new Java 5 and 6 features. Worth every penny that you pay for it!
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The first review is absolutely wrong and unfair.  The amount of value this book can add to any J2EE programmer's arsenal is simply amazing.  It is not trying to convert or educate people who are purely interested in programming only in classic J2EE style, but then again the title does not imply that.  What it does do is fairly and honestly contrast classic J2EE programming with what you can accomplish with POJO's.
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In my opinion, this book is the best Java Security book that is available today. I personally own Java Cryptography (Oreilly), Professional Java Security (Wrox), and Java Security (Oreilly) - and this book blows them all away. The author has created a free security toolkit that is very handy for real world applications. If you need to add any type of security feature to a J2EE application, then this is the book to buy.
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Enterprise Java can be a mysterious world, and navigating the configuration files of JBoss can be daunting at first. This book gets you going with an in-depth example and helpful notes.
(...)It is no surprise that JBoss: A Developer's Notebook was a top seller at JavaOne 2005. I look forward to other titles in the Developer's Notebook Series.
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If you're familiar with Java, servlets, class loading etc. then some of the book runs a little long on explaining things that are obvious to you. I recommend reading even those parts because his coverage is so thorough that there are good insights to be gained even on subjects you think you know cold.

I was looking for something that would give me a good overview to see if OSGi was right for my projects. I ended up with more than an overview, I actually feel like I understand most of the strengths and weaknesses of OSGi. The book answered all the questions I had in my head. Very well done.

A nice change from most OSGi distributions and example code is that the examples that accompany this book build and run right out of the box with zero hassles. All that's required to build and run them is a JDK and ant.

Definitely gets a prime slot in my reference library.
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Pro EJB3 is a great book. Having been using it for over last 6 month on my recent project, I can definitely say that this book is invaluable.

Have been worked on EJB 2.x for many years and on several projects with different application servers (Weblogic, JBoss, WebSphere), I understand the basics of EJB. So I want not only understand the basic how-to in EJB3 and JPA, but also want to understand the in depth explanations on transaction, persistence context and different behavior in the new system.

The book explain all these topics very well. I had brought other book (hibernate in action with JPA pdf version), but found that book was too focused on hibernate (even I was a fan of the previous edition of hibernate in action book). This book is well focused on JPA,and I really likes JPA APIs.

The book author is really nice and accessible. I have emailed Mike questions and he consistently replied promptly.

This book worth the money !!!

Chester
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The J2EE Connector Architecture (JCA) is a very important standard API of the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition. This book provides a well written and comprehensive treatment of JCA. I highly recommend it for any J2EE developer who needs to learn how to integrate enterprise information systems with J2EE application servers and components via the JCA.
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Enterprise Java Programming with IBM WebSphere is a solid overview of J2EE technologies and a great tutorial for using IBM's top-notch IDE for developing J2EE applications.
The authors (all 9 of them) go through the whole J2EE architecture from JavaServer Pages to Enterprise JavaBeans to Web Services one element at a time, including "bonuses" here and there, such as testing certain types of J2EE components, the Apache Struts framework, building a presentation layer using XML and XSLT, and mapping objects to data sources.
Each chapter includes a brief introduction to the technology, starting from the basics, and proceeds through the development steps in WSAD using lots of nice screenshots (which are mandatory for such a topic) and plenty of example code. Although some of the plain text is simply describing the wizards and dialogs of WSAD, the why's are always explained.
My biggest glitch with this book was in fact how the code snippets are rendered. Besides the mandatory typos and occasional weird wordings, the code snippets were often badly formatted and double-spaced which made them unnecessarily difficult to read at times.
The book comes with a 3 CD set of software, including trial versions of WebSphere Studio Application Developer, DB2 Personal Edition, WebSphere Application Server, and all of the book's source code. I had some trouble installing the software but that was most probably because I tried to customize the installations quite a bit
Over 800 pages of "let's walk this through together" type of tutorial is an admirable goal and the authors have done a good job making it a pleasant experience. The book has a lot of content and a lot of it is some of the finest text I've read about J2EE best practices. As one could expect, the trade-off is that none of the topics/technologies are really covered in complete detail. All things considered, I'd say this is a great first or second book about J2EE if you're going to use WebSphere Studio. I really can't say whether it should be the first or second, but I know it makes a great companion for a more in-depth technical reference.
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This is an excellent book and probably one of the best ever written on Java certification. The software included with this book is particularly helpful to all of you interested in Sun/ Java 2 certification
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As a recently unemployed Java developer, I was at a local Borders looking at EJB books to update my skill. I picked several EJB books and then sat down with a coffee to find a easy to understand  and a practical  book. In my opinion the EJBs are too complicated and I was looking for hands-on book with step-by-step guide and this book was it. I was able to understand and start writing stateless session bean within few hours. I liked the fact Mr. Tulachan used  Sun's J2EE Reference Implmentation, which is free, small and easy to use unlike commercial  application servers that take over 150MB of disk space and require atleast 256MB -a bit complicated and difficult to use for a beginner like me.
 The only negative from my perspective are the typos so be sure to download the errata.
 As a beginner I found the step-by-step approach to EJB development very helpful and I hope it will also help me get a job as an EJB developer soon....
--raj
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Anyone who is new to the world of J2EE SHOULD read this book. Also anyone new to Websphere MUST read this book as an introductory book.  It clears up a lot of questions for any newbie in J2EE (as well as Websphere) field. (A J2EE intern/newbie in my group borrowed this book from me for a couple of days and on the third day bought his own copy - He told me that this book helped him clear a lot of questions).

This book lays a strong basic foundation on many topics in J2EE which is very very helpful in the long run.  And I found a lot of stuff in this book which I was unable to find in a LOT of other books or online material . The author writing style is simple AWESOME/ AMAZING /BEST /SUPERB. I found a lot of other technical authors writing style to be boring and kinda intimidating. But Mr. McKenzie's writing style is simply fantastic, he explains the topics to point in a very crystal clear way and with a bit of humor which really makes the reading very enjoyable(and of course his explanation of technical details is pretty interesting/intriguing).  (Also, I didn't see any author responding to questions/queries  so fast.. I mean the author of this book Mr. (Cameron) McKenzie  is lightning quick in answering your questions. I had a couple of questions in EJB related chapters and I e-mailed him regarding the same.. he replied to my e-mail with in 5 minutes FLAT with answers to my questions.. his explanation to my questions very crystal clear as always).

I would rate this book 5 out of 5 stars (if possible more than that). Thank you Cameron for this awesome book.