Finished the SCBCD Exam Study Kit, then started on HFEJB for a second opinion/different point of view. But then I noticed something odd:
Page 66: (And there's even a way to make it easier for the client, using an
EJB design
pattern we'll see in the last chapter).
Page 76: ...bigger performance fish to fry... But the story isn't always that simple, so we'll explore this again
later in the book.
Page 323: We'll talk about this both in this chapter and in the
last Chapter (patterns and performance), but the short version is this...
I'm sure there was another "patterns and performance in the last chapter" reference in the earlier part of the book but I wasn't able to locate it.
But the last chapter (12) is the deployment chapter!
A quick google of the saloon resolved the mystery:
EJB's are easy to build....are they? Head First EJB and Design Patterns Questions reg exam and HFE But then I find this quote in the last
thread (2003-Dec-29):
We do intend to write a patterns chapter and it will be available on the wickedlysmart website as a free download. When the chapter is ready we will let everyone on this forum know, so stayed tuned!
I don't imagine it ever got done?
(Those "sharpen your pencil" answers probably took precedence.)
I know, go away, you've got an
SCJP 5.0 (in-waiting) mob rioting outside your door.
Great work - though I am a bit in Ice Penov's camp - I'm getting a bit tired with some of these individuals who seem to think its OK to require constant
spoon feeding. You put together a great series of
learning books (
reference books are in a different category) and now it seems to be OK to wish/demand that
everything should be this easy - there comes a point where you just have to learn to bite the bullet. Great work regardless.
Maybe
you should consider adding a "Learn More" section (hopefully extending beyond the current publisher) at the end of the books, similar to Andrew Koenig/Barbara E. Moo's "
Accelerated C++" (***)- to get the point across that one shouldn't just consume "Head First" fare - even if its just for the reason that there isn't enough of it.
*** "Annotated Bibliography" like you find in Kent Beck's "Extreme Programming Explained" or Martin Fowler's "Refactoring" final "References" section.
[ October 02, 2005: Message edited by: Peer Reynders ]
. So what happened to the Patterns and Performance chapter 
.
So, we're kind of forced to pick our battles, and although we've got some J2EE patterns on our list of things to do, so far other stuff has taken priority. Anyway, we ARE sorry, and it is on our list (now where did I put that list?) 
