We are at the point of going through the material for Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) in my Sun Certified Enterprise Architect (SCEA) study group. After wading through the morass that is chapter seven of the SCEA study guide, I heard several people in the group mention Head First EJB. Those of you who have read this weblog know that I am very fond of the Head First series. So, off to Barnes & Noble I went.

This is another great one from Kathy Sierra and Bert Bates. The very first chapter leaves you with having created a simple-yet-educational stateless session bean using the Sun J2EE 1.3.1 SDK Reference Implementation. (At this point I must confess a certain level of happiness in having all the screenshots come from a Mac - I am the only Mac user in our study group to my knowledge.)

A big thanks to Kathy and the crew for the notes from the site for the book which helped me to get the J2EE SDK up and running.