Welcome to this Blog. I am Software Engineer and work for Zühlke Engineering AG in Bern. This is my private blog, in which I will post mainly about technical stuff like Software Engineering or IT related topics. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent those of my employer.
If you want to have a good introduction to the topic EJB 3.0, I can recommend you the book “Mastering Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0”. This book can be freely downloaded from TheServerSide.com.
I am currently preparing for the SCBCD 5.0 and in my opinion, it’s better than the book “Enterprise JavaBans 3.0” from O’Reilly. “Mastering EJB 3.0” covers many topics about Java EE much deeper. For example, it mentions poison messages or clustering as has a very useful overview of all possible annotations in the appendix.
Only the part JPA is not covered as deep as in the O’Reilly book. EmbededId is only mentioned, but not described in detail.