Rating:  - Best Book in J2EE
Are you new J2EE then this book must be your first book? Super Introductory book. I have read couple of very good J2EE books, I found this book the best avove all. Highly recommeneded book. Very systemetic and thorough. Easy to read and follow. I have found all codes working.
Rating:  - Good book but...
The book covers a LOT of topics about Java Web programming (including EJB). I think the level of this book is probably at least mid-level. I would have given it a better rating had all the examples (and code on the CD) worked. Typos and errors. But, nevertheless, still worth the read.
Rating:  - Decent book but too many typos
To be fair, I will first say that this book is very good at capturing a large amount of knowledge related to J2EE, specifically JSP, Servlets, and EJB. However, my general feeling is that this book isn't the best at explaining the concepts behind said technologies. The explanations are not bad, but much better ones do exist (e.g., Core Servlets and JSP...although this book does not cover EJB). My biggest problem with this book is that it contains many typos. In fact, there are bugs in several of the code samples (even the files on the enclosed CD). Obviously, the code was not compiled and tested beforehand. Furthermore, errata listed on the publisher's webpage is suspect.
Rating:  - Examples for the EJB and servlet don't work
I tried to run those examples included in this book with the same versions of tomcat and jboss as used by Budi, but i always got some errors; the one that still makes me scratching my ass is the tassie online bookstore, i kept receiving "[Root exception is ava.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContextFactory]", even with every possible .jar from jboss/client/ is included in the classpath.
Rating:  - Fantastic Walkthrough - New to J2EE, but need to know Java
I found this book to be a wonderful resource and walked through the book from cover to cover. I had previously been focused on fat-client Swing development and so had very little J2EE experience. This book did a wonderful job of bringing me up to speed on the latest J2EE spec implementations (Servlets 2.3, JSP 1.2 and EJB 2.0). I am following this up with some Struts specific JSP resources and found that this book prepared me well for making that leap. Well done, New Riders! Keep the solid Java development texts coming!
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