Ejb Design Patterns: Advanced Patterns, Processes, and Idioms with Poster with Poster: Advanced Patterns, Processes and Idioms

Pattern description fill about half of the book. The other half talks more on processes (how you get to an EJB design), best practices (using Ant and JUnit in the context of EJBs) and discussing replacements for EntityBeans (like JDO).
This is the weak part of the book. It should go more into details where it stays on the surface: The design process for the sample application is described too briefly and too weak to transfer it to my own application.
On the other hand, it goes too much into details where it could refer to an appendix: Is this an Ant-book, or what? 10 pages of Ant-scripts inlined but only 30 pages of EJB-code in a book about EJB-patterns???

Of course, this book will be a standard reference being cited everywhere. But it has a bible's drawbacks: Written not too clipped and precise, being very prose.


One of my favourites...   April 7, 2002
Jörg Rückert
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I have already read a lot of books about best practices regarding
J2EE and EJB development. In my opinion EJB Design Patterns from
Floyd Marinescu is one of the best references for EJB Design Patterns
which covers all important topics about Pattern-Driven EJB development.

Floyd is Principal at "The MIDDLEWARE company" and one of the founders
of TheServerSide, the reference Portal for the J2EE community.

The book involves standard patterns like the Session Facade and
DTO (Data Transfer Objects) as well as extensions like a pattern
for asynchronous communication (Message Facade) between a client
application and the service layer in the middle tier.

The layered EJB architecture which includes the application, service,
domain, and persistence layer are discussed in detail. Useful hints
for the EJB development process and system design complete the book.
The book is a good choice for EJB developers and enterprise
architects.

One of the big advantages of the book are the chapters "From
requirements to Pattern-Driven Design" and "EJB development with
Jakarta Ant and unit testing with JUnit" which are dealing with
the solution of real world problems.

The chapter about Entity Beans vs. Java Data Objects (JDO) is a
must for every domain developer.

Floyd's book is well written and easy to understand for experienced
developers and architects. The Java source code examples of the book
are well documented and useful, if one desires a comlete impression
of EJB development.

To be honest, the book is one of the favourites in my bookshelf and
I consult it whenever possible to learn more about that important
technology.

The book also includes a nice poster that shows the EJB Design
Patterns and an additional text to avoid pit falls. It's nice to
stand in front of this poster and think about that great server
side Java technology.


Excellent Book   März 1, 2002
Stephan Schmidt
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This Book is excellent for a deeper understanding of Enterprise Java Beans and how to model your application with patterns. A lot of interesting and usefult EJB Patterns.