Customer Reviews
Back to High School - By: Ronan O'Sullivan, 25 Jun 2008 
Well if you are not doing the exam & actuallly want to learn about EJB dont get this book. Its back to school stuff, loads of theory with no practical & no examples of anything. It focuses on stuff like you must remember this for the exam & that alone.
"setRollbackOnly lives in 2 interfaces etc. etc. This method can be callled from this interface but not from this ( x 100 times ) "
For actual development & real use of EJB it's a waste of time. If you just want to program a few EJB's & keep a book beside you as reference, this is not gonna be your reference book! Also you wont learn enough from this book to do that as you are left to do alll the practicals on your own.
It is so longwinded 600 & something pages & it just keeps repeating itself. It's like that high school teacher, teaching you something you do not need to remember for real life, but do need to remember to pass a stupid exam!
Works - By: Jarek, 20 Feb 2006 
This book is focused on passing SCBCD exam. If you are looking for J2EE design or reference text, I'd suggest something else. However for passing exam it is number one. Worked for me.
Very efficient as a guide for the exam - By: Alexander Kolesnikov, 10 Dec 2005 I used only this book to prepare for the SCBCD exam, & I've got 95%. The mock exam is quite close to the real exam questions by the level of difficulty. This is an invaluable book when you are overloaded by work & studies, it's humour helps to retain comprehension.
Excellent concept, poor delivery - By: , 16 Nov 2004 
I have to say, I was initiallly impressed by the idea of this book, however after reading through the book, I found it very difficult to extract information & identify the key points. Frankly, the illustrative methods used in this book do get frustrating after a while. In conclusion, this book is alll you should need to pass the exam, but I have to say it requires a certain level of patience....which is rare.
great for passing the exam - By: M. D. Marikar, 15 Nov 2004 
I used this book to pass the exam with about a weeks preparation. It covers the syllabus of the exam pretty comprehensively. Its an engaging read for an EJB book, & does an excellent job of describing concepts. As for gripes, I think it would have been nice to have had some practical coding examples for each chapter (even if not mentioned in the book, to have access to on the website). Also, although the explanations are clear & innovative, they can sometimes seem a bit long winded, which can be a pain when revising. All in alll, excellent value for money.
