Advanced Programming for the Java 2 Platform

Rating:
Summary: A good book with nice example
Review: I like the content on Chapter 2 and 3 with good examples on EJBs, especially on CMP and BMP EntityBeans. It also has good coverage on the use of transaction management in both CMP and BMP environment. If you have fundamental JDBC/EJBs knowledge, you will enjoy reading this book.

Chapter 4 has good introduction on distributed computing regarding RMI/IIOP/Corba plus the JNDI object lookup and the sub-system data marshaling mechanism.

Finally, Chapter 7 and 8 provides some insight with regard to debugging and performance tuning that is quite helpful in Java programming.

Rating:
Summary: A good book with nice example
Review: I like the content on Chapter 2 and 3 with good examples on EJBs, especially on CMP and BMP EntityBeans. It also has good coverage on the use of transaction management in both CMP and BMP environment. If you have fundamental JDBC/EJBs knowledge, you will enjoy reading this book.

Chapter 4 has good introduction on distributed computing regarding RMI/IIOP/Corba plus the JNDI object lookup and the sub-system data marshaling mechanism.

Finally, Chapter 7 and 8 provides some insight with regard to debugging and performance tuning that is quite helpful in Java programming.

Rating:
Summary: A great Java book
Review: There are lots of books on enterprise applications but this book has lots of information that I haven't found in any others.

The chapters on CORBA, printing, security and debugging are excellent and I like the way it covers one application throughout the book.

Rating:
Summary: All in one
Review: This book does a good job to show how different technologies are used in the auction application. I would advise the readers to go through a little bit of JDBC and EJB on the web at the sun website and also this book is available on the web. The site also has pointers to RMI-IIOP etc.