What do Ford Financial, IBM, and Victoria's Secret have in common?
Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB). As the industry standard for
platform-independent reusable business components, EJB has just become
Sun Microsystem's latest developer certification. Whether you want to be
certifiable or just want to learn the technology inside and out, Head
First EJB will get you there in the least painful way. And with the
greatest understanding.You'll learn not just what the technology is,
but more importantly, why it is, and what it is and isn't good for.
You'll learn tricks and tips for EJB development, along with tricks and
tips for passing this latest, very challenging Sun Certified Business
Component Developer (SCBCD) exam. You'll learn how to think like a
server. You'll learn how to think like a bean. And because this is a
Head First book, you'll learn how to think about thinking.Co-author
Kathy Sierra was one of Sun's first employees to teach brave, early
adopter customers how to use EJB. She has the scars. But besides
dragging you deep into EJB technology, Kathy and Bert will see you
through your certification exam, if you decide to go for it. And nobody
knows the certification like they do - they're co-developers of Sun's
actual exam!As the second book in the Head First series, Head First
EJB follows up the number one best-selling Java book in the US, Head
First Java. Find out why reviewers are calling it a revolution in
learning tough technical topics, and why Sun Chairman and CEO Scott
McNealy says, "Java technology is everywhere...if you develop software
and haven't learned Java, it's definitely time to dive in "Head
First."And with Head First book, you don't even have to feel guilty
about having fun while you're learning; it's all part of the learning
theory. If the latest research in cognitive science, education, and
neurobiology suggested that boring, dry, and excruciatingly painful was
the best way to learn, we'd have done it. Thankfully, it's been shown
that your brain has a sense of style, a sense of humour, and a darn good
sense of what it likes and dislikes.In Head First EJB, you'll learn
all about:
- Component-based and role-based development
- The architecture of EJB, distributed programming with RMI
- Developing and Deploying an EJB application
- The Client View of a Session and Entity bean
- The Session Bean Lifecycle and Component Contract
- The Entity bean Lifecycle and Component Contract
- Container-managed Persistence (CMP)
- Container-managed Relationships (CMR)
- EJB-QL
- Transactions
- Security
- EJB Exceptions
- The Deployment Descriptor
- The Enterprise Bean Environment in JNDI
- Programming Restrictions and Portability
The book includes over 200 mock exam questions that match the tone,
style, difficulty, and topics on the real SCBCD exam. See why Kathy and
Bert are responsible for thousands of successful exam-passers--"The Sun
certification exam was certainly no walk in the park, but Kathy's
material allowed me to not only pass the exam, but Ace it!"--Mary
Whetsel, Sr. Technology Specialist, Application Strategy and
Integration, The St. Paul Companies"Kathy Sierra and Bert Bates are two
of the few people in the world who can make complicated things seem damn
simple, and as if that isn't enough, they can make boring things seem
interesting."--Paul Wheaton, The Trail Boss, javaranch.com"Who better to
write a Java study guide than Kathy Sierra, reigning queen of Java
instruction? Kathy Sierra has done it again. Here is a study guide that
almost guarantees you a certification!"--James Cubetta, Systems
Engineer, SGI
