Bitter EJB

“... wonderful writing style ... one of the most enjoyable technical reads ... explanation of the concepts is easy to absorb, entertaining, informative, and to the point.” -—Dave Wiltz, SBC Global

“... helps you cut through the hype surrounding enterprise Java development.” -—John D. Crabtree, Taliant Software

“They know their stuff, and that is obvious.” -—Jack Herrington, Code Generation Network

“... an awesome read.” -—Barry Nowak, GFS Marketplace

“... helps you spot the dead-ends and points you in the right direction, before you start tearing your hair out.” -—Jon Skeet, Peramon Technology

Enterprise JavaBeans—the server-side core of J2EE application development—has been both hailed as the savior of Java enterprise programming and cursed as the bane of Java development. Complexity brings power, but it can also lead to confusion and frustration. What are the best ways to become productive with EJB?

Bitter EJB addresses the controversy head on. The authors identify and explain common EJB traps and distill them into “antipatterns.” These antipatterns encapsulate for you some of the most important EJB problems, from persistence to performance. With a clear understanding of what not to do, you will appreciate the value of the detailed best practices recommended in the book.

What's Inside When to use or not use EJB Managing session state Alternatives to entity beans Performance tuning techniques XDoclet, Ant and JUnit best practices Avoid pitfalls of:    - message-driven beans    - entity beans    - session beans

Bruce Tate is a consultant and frequent conference speaker who promotes and teaches effective Java design. Mike Clark, president of Clarkware Consulting, helps teams build better software faster. Bob Lee is an independent consultant and open source developer. Patrick Linskey is the VP Engineering for SolarMetric, which offers Java persistence alternatives to the Java community.