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Core J2EE Patterns: Best Practices and Design Strategies, Second Edition

Format: Hardcover
Author: Deepak Alur
ReleaseDate: 10 June, 2003
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Rating:

Excellent J2EE book
This is the first J2EE book I bought this year and I am very impressed. I usually don't buy technology books as they are very short-lived and gets obsolete. There are a large number of Design Patterns books available in the industry over the last decade. Core J2EE Design Patterns offers the best solution catalog for building J2Ee applications in both a practical and readable manner. Instead of just another high-level catalog of design patterns, it provides insight into the real world scenarios of where these patterns can be employed. From a J2EE designer perspective, this book is a great addition to your portfolio.

My favorite J2EE book
com, plenty of demonstrable code some of which found their way into our deployed apps, great emphasis on patterns applied to specific layers of an application like ejb persistence, web etc. THE book to understand and use J2EE patterns effectively! Excellent concept introduction to begin with, to tide over the pattern non-gurus, comparison with established OO design patterns to ones mostly used in the J2EE community including ones on theserverside. Great insight into usually tricky topics.

An excellent addition to anyone's J2EE repertoire. Truly worth the money.

A must but not very well written
It provides the most important and relevant patterns in J2EE design and development. If you are a J2EE architect/developer, then you must read this book. I would say this book is as important as the "Design Pattern" book from the Gang of Four.

However, I'll recommend this book with reservations. It was not very well written and I had to read several times before I could understand each of the patterns, understanding that the authors were Sun employees who were more used to coding than writing a book.

Another week point is this book recommends the full use of EJB, even though if you've programmed with EJBs before, you'll know how hard it is to write EJB beans. In fact, many people consider EJB the greates failure of all J2EE components (that's also why they are ditching remote and home interfaces in EJB 3 and make entity beans POJOs).

Having said that, you still can learn a lot of things from this book.