You can download the PDF version of this book from here:
http://www.theserverside.com/tt/books/wiley/masteringEJB3/index.tss

This book was released at the time when there were not many books covering topics on EJB3.

This book is not organized well. There is no information or guidance on what IDE to use or how to code example.

In the part 1 itself book language is so complex that it assumes reader is having great awareness about EJB Specifications.

There can be details there are 3 specification documents given by EJB Expert group, they can be referenced while reading this book.

ejb-3_0-fr-spec-ejbcore.pdf
ejb-3_0-fr-spec-persistence.pdf
ejb-3_0-fr-spec-simplified.pdf

Part	Chapter	Description	Code Author	SCBCD relevance	Comments
1	1	Overview		No	No objectives covered, but important for EJB 3 knowledge.
	2	Pre-EJB 3.0: The World That Was		No	If you are already developing EJB 2.1 then don’t waste time in reading this.
	3	The New Enterprise JavaBean	Rima	Yes	Some SCBCD objectives are covered. Examples do not explain about bundling JNDI configuration inside the beans. Developer have to apply own knowledge or search for steps on JNDI configurations.
2	4	Introduction to Session Bean	Gerald	Yes	Limited Examples. Vendor specific implementations not discussed. Glassfish implementation could have been considered while explaining this topic.
	5	Writing Session Bean Web Services	Gerald	No	Not enough examples.Steps on generating of Stubs from WSDL file are not explained. This leaves the examples half complete.
	6	Java Persistence: Programming with Entities	Gerald	Yes	Incomplete code examples. Lot of theory. Covers so many topics without any complete examples. This chapter doesn’t even talks about creation of table in any database and mapping fields with objects. JavaDB or MySQL table references could have been given. To start with explaining Non JEE JPA example makes understanding very easy.
	7	Introduction to Message-Driven Beans	Gerald	Yes
	8	Adding Functionality to Your Beans	Micah
3	9	Advanced Persistence Concepts	Micah	Yes
	10	Transactions		Yes
	11	Security	Micah	Yes
	12	EJB Timers	Rima	Yes
	13	EJB Best Practises
	14	EJB Performance Optimizations		No
	15	EJB Integration	Rima
	16	Clustering		No
	17	EJB-Java EE Integration: Building a Complete Application	Gerald
	Appendinx A	RMI-IIOP and JNDI Tutorial	Gerald
	Appendix B	Annotations	Gerald

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Can you tell me any good book for new SCBCD exam....i.e 310-091 is there any new book from Head First series
by Uday Dattani, posted on 2008-05-18

nice and helpful
by karthick, posted on 2008-01-13

Better if you could provide the answers with the reasons at the end of the test.
by Biswajeet Senapati, posted on 2007-06-08

Hi .. Can you tell me any good book for new SCBCD exam....i.e 310-091 is there any new book from Head First series....
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Send me details
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