Peter,
Apologies if this is a duplicate message, but Hotmail died the first time I
tried to send it. <sigh>
I know you can download Ed Roman's entire EJB book from
www.theserverside.com, on the "Resources" page. That's a great place to
start. It seemed like the JGuru "EJB Short Course" that's on the Java
Developer's connection
(http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/onlineTraining/EJBIntro/EJBIntro.html)
was also pretty good. The JBoss docs (at www.jboss.org) have a JBoss manual
whose first chapter allows you to do EJB in a "client-server" way instead of
worrying right away about accessing from a servlet engine. I think you'd be
well-served to try things in this order:
1. Download and install JBoss and get it running (there's a version that is
tightly bundled with Apache Tomcat, if you want to try that). I had a bit
of trouble getting it to run on Linux, but was able to smooth it out by
installing JDK 1.3 and massaging the classpath. I think on Windows NT it's
easier.
2. Once you get JBoss to start, read over and follow the first chapter in
their manual, which will walk you through creating a simple bean and
deploying it (which, on JBoss, is orders of magnitude easier than on many
other commercial products).
3. After you're comfortable with that example, you can either proceed with
the JBoss manual and get into database and web integration, or you can start
in on Ed's book, which will fill in a lot of the theory (types of beans,
specifics of transaction semantics, etc.)
I also had a bit of trouble with the J2EE RI (albeit when it first came
out), but have nothing but praise for the work Rickard and team have done on
JBoss.
Just my two cents, but hope it helps...
John
>
>Thanks John for your reply,
>Is there any good tutorials that you recomend and what do you think of the
>Sun
>container that is shipped with J2EE. I keep running into walls when trying
>to
>deploy simple EJB's do you know of any step by step tutorials?
>Cheers,
>Peter Glynn
>
> >===== Original Message From "John Ternent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> =====
> >"HomeBase" is what's left of the freeware EJBHome EJB server after it was
> >bought by Iona. Apparently, they had made some commitment to keeping it
> >freely available, but since it's now part of iPortal, I don't think they
> >have a large interest in making it easy to find the free version.
> >
> >If you're just starting out and are not married to Iona, I might
>recomment
> >jBoss, a _very_ nice open source EJB server from www.jboss.org.
> >
> >Hope this helps,
> >
> >John
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>Thanks John for your reply,
>Is there any good tutorials that you recomend and what do you think of the
>Sun
>container that is shipped with J2EE. I keep running into walls when trying
>to
>deploy simple EJB's do you know of any step by step tutorials?
>Cheers,
>Peter Glynn
>
> >===== Original Message From "John Ternent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> =====
> >"HomeBase" is what's left of the freeware EJBHome EJB server after it was
> >bought by Iona. Apparently, they had made some commitment to keeping it
> >freely available, but since it's now part of iPortal, I don't think they
> >have a large interest in making it easy to find the free version.
> >
> >If you're just starting out and are not married to Iona, I might
>recomment
> >jBoss, a _very_ nice open source EJB server from www.jboss.org.
> >
> >Hope this helps,
> >
> >John
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >_________________________________________________________________
> >Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
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