Review by Billy Barron, Tek-Tools

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"The J2EE Tutorial" by Bodoff, et al (Addison-Wesley; ISBNs 0-201-79168-4) is a tutorial that covers all of the J2EE technologies including EJB, JSP, Servlets, XML, JMS, JNDI, Java Mail, Connector Architecture and JDBC. It does all of this in less than 500 pages. Amazing considering the number of huge books out on the market.

The book starts out with a very quick overview of the technologies and the division of labor that can be achieved by using them. I should point out however that while the division of labor makes sense, I've never seen used out in the field. The book then moves onto EJBs. It explains what they are and then moves to several chapters of examples of each type of bean.

After EJBs, the book moves into Servlets and JSPs. Then it combines EJBs and Servlets/JSPs together. Then the book moves over to look at transactions and security.

Then it slides over and talks about JNDI and JDBC very briefly. The last technology discussed is the Connector Architecture.A The book concludes with a banking examples that puts everything together.

If you are looking for a tutorial on the J2EE technologies and how they fit together, then this may be the book you are looking for. It is heavy on example code that let's you try it out for yourself.