>I am new to EJB .Please advise me on the best books for a stater and what do >I need to do to become a near master ! I have all the time in the world for >EJB ! > >Syed <purely unbiased opinion> You should get my book "Enterprise Javabeans : Developing Component-Based Distributed Applications". I wrote it with the intent that a newcomer to ejb could read it in a few days and get a grasp of the architecture and some of the basic idioms. It's pretty easy to read, and features some fairly heavyweight examples, with source code and a demo version of Weblogic on a companion CD-ROM </purely unbiased opinion> Sun has just put up a free developers' guide to EJB at: http://java.sun.com/products/ejb/devguide.html It looks pretty good. BEA Weblogic has a really good set of examples and docs about EJB online at: http://www.weblogic.com/docs/classdocs/API_ejb.html I've got some links to interesting background reading at http://www.patriot.net/users/tvalesky/ejb.html (It hasn't been updated in a while -- I've been swamped with Real Work (TM) lately, but I should get some breathing room after the end of the fiscal year). Since your stated goal is near mastery of EJB, you should read the spec at some point. You can find it at http://java.sun.com/products/ejb/newspec.html In my book, I consciously avoided getting too involved in the spec details (there's room for "The Annotated EJB Specification" in the world, but that was not my goal), so if you plan to, say, write an EJB server, you should definitely read the spec. Hope this helps, Tom ============================================================================ Tom Valesky -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.patriot.net/users/tvalesky =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff EJB-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
