Reviews for EJB Design Patterns

1. Great

   Rated 4 out of 5 stars, February 12th, 2010

   Quick delivery, good conditions, cheap. The book is based on J2EE; although most of the patterns apply to JEE5, I would try to find something more up-to-date.

2. Core book every EJB Architect should have

   Rated 5 out of 5 stars, March 12th, 2002

   This book along with the Mastering Enterprise JavasBeans 2nd Edition book by Ed Roman should form the core of every J2EE bookstore. Roman and Marinescu are the core of The Middleware Company, who run the theServerSide.com, which is merely the best website on J2EE, EJB particularly.

   Where does this book depart from the EJB crowd? Real-world expertise. Marinescu and Roman tell you what the best-practices are for EJB and why. Marinescu even tells you what the viable alternatives are. He devotes an entire chapter to alternatives to using Entity EJB beans (basically JDO) which has to be a first for an EJB book!

   Another thing which surprises is that this is in no way a rehash of the GOF series. I'm not sneering at this kind of book (Applied Java Patterns is a favorite), but these are fresh patterns very much tailored to EJB experience.

   I'll buy a book if a single chapter adds to my understanding of something important. But I will be reading and re-reading every single word of this one.

   Invaluable.