SCBCD - Head First EJB

This is wonderful book for SCBCD and the whole credit goes to Kathy sierra writing style.The Graphics in the book will enhance your learning process and will force you to read on and on.The book will make you to think like different entity components .They have explained every topic by relating to live examples. Kathy style writing makes learning fun .The book also contains 200 exam questions that match the difficulty level,style of the real questions which will come in the exam.
The topics included in the book are :

 

• 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

And Even if you are not going for Certification then also the explanation of concepts in this will help you to clear your all doubts regarding concepts and will make you professional EJB programmer