Beginning Ejb 3 Application Development: From Novice to Professional

The recently-released Enterprise Java Beans 3 improves upon the old EJB architecture by reducing its complexity from the developer's point of view. Aimed at beginning to intermediate programmers, this text uses numerous examples to introduce the main components of the EJB 3 API. Coverage includes (for example) session beans, entities, persistence features, message-driven beans, and Web services. The migration of applications from EJB 2.x to EJB 3 is also addressed. Kodali is a consulting product manager for Oracle Fusion Middleware. Annotation c2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Raghu R. Kodali is a consulting product manager and service-oriented architecture (SOA) evangelist for Oracle Application Server. He has worked in the software industry for over 10 years as a developer, consultant, and presales engineer in emerging technologies. He is responsible for J2EE features with expertise in SOA technologies like EJB, Web Services, and application development frameworks. Raghu has been the lead product manager for EJB design-time features in Oracle JDeveloper since the EJB 1.1 specification. His current area of focus is evangelizing service-oriented infrastructure and implementing service-oriented applications. Prior to product management, Raghu held presales and marketing positions in Oracle Asia Pacific. Before joining Oracle, he worked as a software developer in Singapore. Raghu is frequent presenter at number of technology conferences such as Oracle Open World, Java One, Java Zone, JAOO, and Sun Technology Days. He holds a master's degree in computer applications.