Hi Everyone, <announce> I would like to announce that the "beta" version of the 3rd edition of my Enterprise JavaBeans book is now available for free -- or at least the first 5 chapters - at O'Reilly (http://oreilly.techrev.org/). This book is an update of my EJB book, Enterprise JavaBeans 2nd Edition (O'Reilly 2000), which includes complete coverage of EJB 2.0. More chapters will be added every week. Ordinarily, at this time in the writing cycle my book would be in closed technical review with leading industry experts. However, in a new initiative O'Reilly is opening up the technical review draft of the manuscript to the public so that you can download it and read it for free. Its a great opportunity for you to start learning about EJB 2.0 early and to get a head of the curve. Hopefully you can help improve the quality of the book by pointing out any technical errors or confusing text. Of course, the book will still be reviewed by the top experts in the field -- I would never abandon that protocol -- but we also want to expose the book to as many eyes as possible. Even experts can miss important technical errors. Here is the URL. http://oreilly.techrev.org/ Just register and then click on any chapter to download it. You can then submit your comments by e-mail or by writing comments directly to the techrev site. A word of warning: This site was put together pretty fast so it still "a work in progress". </announce> Have fun! Richard -- Richard Monson-Haefel Author of Enterprise JavaBeans, 2nd Edition (O'Reilly 2000) Co-Author of Java Message Service (O'Reilly 2000) http://www.jMiddleware.com =========================================================================== 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".
