Eric Moon: The Life and Library Times

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Eric Moon, a progressive, even radical librarian who for more than 50 years has served his profession as goad and prod, devoted practitioner, gutsy journalist, magnanimous publisher, revered and resented association leader, smug antagonist, beloved mentor and antic crony, has been at the center of almost every important debate involving the shape and direction of the library profession in North America since the late 1950s and well into the 1990s, and before that for some years in England.

Editor of Library Journal, president of Scarecrow Press, president of the American Library Association, Moon has had an opinion on all of the heated issues that have preoccupied librarianship in recent decades: civil rights, social responsibility, intellectual freedom, spurring the young and the new, balanced collections, public funding, and the Sisyphean "governance" of the ALA.

Eric Moon's life is told with the help of Kister's 115 hours of interviews with Moon and his wife, and over 50 hours with dozens of friends and associates. This unvarnished account balances Moon's ambitions and accomplishments with his demons and failures and not only tells the story of the man but also outlines the main course of events in Anglo-American librarianship during the past half century.

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Lunar phases ...(Eric Moon: The Life and Library Times)(Book Review): An article from: The Australian Library Journal
Russell Cope
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Release Date: 2005-07-31

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Title: Lunar phases ...(Eric Moon: The Life and Library Times)(Book Review)
Author: Russell Cope
Publication: The Australian Library Journal (Refereed)
Date: February 1, 2003
Publisher: Australian Library and Information Association
Volume: 52 Issue: 1 Page: 95(2)

Article Type: Book Review

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Phone-it-in hack job.......2001-11-26

As the author acknowledges in the foreword, any 'top 100' list is bound to be highly subjective. Unfortunately, the foreword is about the only place where an explanation/defense of the rankings can be found.

The remainder of the book is a paint-by-numbers, term-paper rehash of each golfer's bio and records - information readily available elsewhere (and obviously the basis for this cut-and-paste edition).

Spelling errors ("symbollic", "Colin Montgomery") confirm the complete lack of effort.

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From the Oscar-winning blockbusters American Beauty and Shakespeare in Love to Sundance oddities like American Movie and The Tao of Steve, to foreign films such as All About My Mother, the latest volume in this popular series features a chronological collection of facsimiles of every film review and awards article published in The New York Times between January 1999 and December 2000. Includes a full index of personal names, titles, and corporate names. This collection is an invaluable resource for all libraries.

The New York Times Theatre Reviews 1999-2000 (New York Times Theater Reviews)

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The New York Times Theatre Reviews 1999-2000 (New York Times Theater Reviews)

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From the musical hits Contact and Aida," to important new plays such as Copenhagen and True West, the latest volume in this popular series features a chronological collection of facsimiles of every theater review and awards article published in The New York Times between January 1999 and December 2000. Includes a full index of personal names, titles, and corporate names. This collection is an invaluable resource for all libraries.

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The spirits of Caligula and the Marquis de Sade haunt this viciously witty send-up of "la grande bouffe." The morbid minded and the terminally degenerate will especially enjoy such scandalous chapters as "I Can Recommend the Poodle" and "Blood, the Vital Ingredient." The decadent gourmand can't help but go wrong with this celebrated collection of recipes, an ideal gift for the terminally degenerate.

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Witty, Wicked, and Tasty, too........2000-04-02

If Oscar Wilde or Dorothy Parker are coming to dinner, cook for them from this cookbook. _The Decadent Cookbook_ has something to intrigue, fascinate, repel, and offend everyone; that and its dry, droll tone are its two biggest charms, but it has many, from literary selections to recipes that actually work. One note on the latter, though: the recipies are amusing but, because they are all historical and many of them are quite old (and therefore taken from sources that didn't trouble with measures or temperatures, or transcribed directly from cooks' dictation), they are sometimes less than precise. Many don't contain measurements, and/or have directions such as "grill furiously until scorched and crisp"; they do require a bit of creativity and experience on the part of the cook to come out well.

I could continue describing the decadent charms of this book, half literary compendium, half cookbook, and all outrageous, but instead I think I'll recommend that, inspired by an Ancient Egyptian menu and a description of a Papal feast, the curious cook try their hand at such Decadent recipes as Lady's Navels, Soles in Coffins, and Mock Hedgehog. If the cat interferes, promise him the fate of the Cat in Tomato Sauce.

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In 1924, Simon & Schuster published its first title, The Cross Word Puzzle Book. Not only was it this new publisher's first release, it was the first collection of crossword puzzles ever printed.

Today, more than seventy-five years later, the legendary Simon & Schuster Crossword Puzzle Book series maintains its status as the standard-bearer for cruciverbal excellence. Published every two months, the series continues to provide the freshest and most original puzzles on the market. Created by the best contemporary constructors -- and edited by top puzzle master John M. Samson -- these Sunday-sized brain-breakers offer hours of stimulation for solvers of every level.

Can you take the challenge? Sharpen your pencils, grit your teeth, and find out!

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As many Java developers and IS managers already know, Sun's powerful Enterprise JavaBean (EJB) technology offers an attractive option for developing server-side components. A suitable read for both managers and Java programmers, Enterprise JavaBeans provides a surprisingly clear and engaging introduction to designing and programming with EJBs.

The tour of the EJB component model presented here centers on several beans created and tested for a travel reservation system in a fictitious cruise ship company. The samples are just right in scale, large enough to test out key concepts in design and deployment, but small enough to be comprehensible, even to those who are not Java experts. The author pays close attention to the real-world issues of deployment with EJBs (as well as the differences among the vendor application servers that run them).

While there are enough details in Java syntax for designing both entity and session beans for the developer, sections on design here will please those who manage projects without delving much into code. Later, the author shows various ways to design entity and session beans. (For instance, entity beans can allow their bean containers to handle the details of connecting to a database, or they can do it themselves. This book demonstrates both approaches.) When it comes to session beans (which "wire" together entity beans to do real work), the author's introduction to managing state and transactions is also a standout. Tips for performance and reusability close out the book.

In all, Enterprise JavaBeans provides an engaging tour of one of the most promising component technologies. It's technically astute, but thoroughly approachable too, and can serve the needs of any manager or Java developer considering EJBs for future projects. --Richard Dragan

Topics covered: Enterprise JavaBeans (EJBs) basics, distributed architectures, Component Transaction Monitors (CTMs), bean-containers, home and remote bean interfaces, resource management, configuring EJB servers, entity beans, JNDI, container-managed and bean-managed persistence, session beans, stateless and stateful beans, transactions, design and performance hints.

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The new 2.1 version of the Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) spec extends its support for web services and the Java Web Services APIs, expands its asynchronous messaging support, adds XML Schema for deployment descriptors, and introduces a new Timer service, which allows for scheduling EJB jobs. The essential--and award winning--book on EJBs, Enterprise JavaBeans, has been completely revised and updated in this new fourth edition, to provide the real-world, nitty-gritty detail developers need to master EJB 2.1. Previous editions of this clear and engaging introduction to EJBs were voted the "Best Java Book" by the editors and readers of Java Developer's Journal, the "Best Java Book for Experts," by JavaPro editors, and one of the Top Computer Books by Amazon.com. The fourth edition lives up to--and surpasses--the excellent reputation earned by its predecessors. This authoritative and thorough guide includes everything that made previous editions the single must-have book for EJB developers: the authors solid grasp on the complexities of EJBs coupled with his succinct, easy-to-follow style; hundreds of clear, practical examples; adept coverage the key concepts EJBs ; and diagrams to illustrate the concepts presented. It also includes everything you need to get up to speed quickly on the changes wrought by EJB version 2.1, an architecture overview, information on resource management and primary services, design strategies, and XML deployment descriptors. In this edition, we're adding an EJB workbook for JBoss 4.0. The workbook shows how to deploy all of the examples on the JBoss 4.0 application server. It addresses an important problem with EJB: deploying the software on a server can be extremely difficult. JBoss is an open source project that has become the most widely used J2EE application server. Good technical authors may lay the facts before you, but great ones offer the distilled essence of their own experience and insight. Richard Monson-Haefel has provided just what Java developers need to know to harness the complexity of EJBs. What makes Monson-Haefel a master of technical authoring can be seen in his well-thought-out and logical progression of ideas, and in his examples practical, precise, usable examples, large enough to test key concepts but still small enough to be comprehensible taken apart and explained in the detail you need to deploy those principles in other situations. If you work with EJBs--or want to--this book will earn a favored spot on your bookshelf.

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Best book for EJB 3.0 available (for now).......2007-06-12

At the time of this writing (June 2007) this is for me the best book for the EJB 3.0 specification currently available. It covers all the grounds and it is very, very dettailed. Session, Entity and Message Driven beans are very well explained, as well as new new JPA (Java Persistence API); other chapters focus on the services provided by the container (Timer Service, Interceptors, JNDI ENC, Transactions, Security and Web Services).
The books closes with an overview of J2EE and EJB for the Real World (when/how to use them).

Down sides:
- lot of tiny errors; while they are not deal breaker, it'd be nice if ALL the code presented was truly functional. It's usually little things that can be solved by googling the topic (like forgot to implement Serializable, a variable's name mispelled, etc.).
- where's the source code? No CD comes witht he book (thumb down) and following the link provided in the book takes you to the JBoss source, rather than the examples's source.
- Web Service chapters (2), try to zip a 800+ topic in 60 pages. While it's true that web services are a HUGE topic, maybe dedicating a little less time to XML semanthics and focusing on a *runnable* web service example would definetly be a pro. The web service was the only chapter I couldn't make the example work.
- Sometimes it looks more like a reference guide; author could definetly learn from the Head First guys about didactic AND fun!

The theory part of the book is general in nature, specifying which behaviors are specs dictated and which are vendor implementation dependant. The practice part is JBoss specific, which is one of the main reasons I bought this book.

The Head First EJB (3.0) is still unannounced (estimated Spring-Summer 2008), and there isn't yet a SCBCD specific book available; so your best chance is to get this book, find any extra material online and you'll be ready to go!

The DEFINITIVE Guid to EJB 3.......2007-04-27

If you are buying a book on EJB 3, this should be it.
This book has no equal.

Interesting/Relevant examples, no "stretching" to prove/illustrate a point/concept, straight-forward, smothered in suggestions for constructive thought process in your designs, filled with reference to methodologies and their value, etc. etc. etc.

I cannot speak highly enough for this book.

From beginner to advanced EJB developer, you will find this as not only a valuable reference, but a wonderful insight into how to go about designing your Java-based enterprise applications.

The wide variety of topics covered do not take away from the primary focus of the book: Entities, Session Beans and MDBeans. These core principals are beautifully illustrated in this book in a wonderfully architected example.

The book touches briefly on the principals of Web Services, WARs, packaging, JBoss, etc. etc. etc. These brief touches show that while all of these aspects are involved in Java enterprise systems, that the core of all of them is the powerful ESbMDb structure. The author leaves it to specialized books to speak of these topics rather than trying to munge them into his in-depth coverage of their core principals.

EJB 3.0 are two times more simple and with this book even three times than 2.1.......2007-02-15

I am very delighted by this book. It explains and shows new possibilities of EJB 3.0. Of course I knew generally how it works. But after reading of this book I am sure I will mainly use this version. There is a lot of new specification concepts explained directly from its leaders (Java Persistence, Entity Manager, new behaviour and control of transactions in stateful session beans and much more). I was also very surprised by Exercise chapters. You will learn how to work with JBoss application server. You can download working examples. This book is the absolute must for developers certified in previous versions as it is in my case.

Easy EJB.......2007-02-14

This book will help anyone who buys it with it future developments in EJB 3.0.

For those (like me) comming from EJB 2.1 it's a must, EJB 3.0 redefines (in fact eases) most of the workarounds of this technology.

Best for EJB 3 and JPA ........2007-02-01

I never read a book for EJB 3 with such good examples .It helps everyone to learn JPA through concept and examples. Obviously you can download and able to run all examples with JBoss . This is one of my favorite books :) and my only favorite book for EJB 3.0.
Note -If you want to avoid reading lot of theory you can jump to exercise area where u can simply run and see it .For all examples explanation are provided and I believe it is good enough.

Mastering Enterprise JavaBeans and the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition

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Great Book...
Detail Coverage of the EJB Topic
Excellent book to understand EJB
Looking forward to the EJB 2.0 book!

Mastering Enterprise JavaBeans and the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition
Ed Roman
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Centering on Sun's Enterprise JavaBeans (EJBs) 1.1 specification, Mastering Enterprise JavaBeans surveys the range of technologies and APIs needed to use EJBs successfully. Mixing a high-level perspective on EJBs with plenty of practical programming advice, this title makes a good choice for the IS manager or developer planning to use EJBs in future projects.

This book succeeds in two notable ways. First, it presents a fine high-level overview describing EJBs and how they fit into today's multitiered, server-side enterprise architectures. The author makes connections between EJBs and other component architectures (such as Microsoft DNA and CORBA). Illustrated with numerous diagrams, these chapters will be useful to anyone seeking to understand the basics of Sun's powerful component model.

This title also serves as a programming primer for serious EJB development. In later sections, the author introduces practical advice for creating both session and entity beans, with plenty of nuts-and-bolts advice, including how to work with actual EJB products. (This book also shows you what to look for when purchasing an EJB application server to deploy your bean components.)

Later chapters delve into transaction management and show how to use Java with CORBA and IIOP. The text culminates in an impressive case study using EJBs and Java servlets to power an e-commerce Web site (complete with an online catalog and a shopping cart). This example is a standout, and it's all you will likely need to get started with EJBs in custom projects. Final appendices cover several APIs and standards in more detail, including RMI, JNDI, and XML.

In all, this title succeeds at bringing the EJB standard home to the practical reader. It demystifies EJBs and gives both managers and developers what they need to start solving business problems using this powerful new component model. --Richard Dragan

Topics covered: Overview of Enterprise JavaBeans (EJBs) component model and Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE), the EJB 1.1 standard, multitiered server-side architectures, J2EE technology primer: RMI, JNDI, JDBC, JTS/JTA, servlets and JSPs, Java IDL, JavaMail, Connectors, XML, EJB Container and Server products and responsibilities, session beans: stateless and stateful beans, EJB security and component life cycle, entity beans and persistence: bean-managed persistent entity beans and container-managed persistent entity beans, flat and nested transactions, ACID properties, two-phase commits, CORBA and RMI-IIOP and EJBs, e-commerce case study using EJBs and servlets.

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A user's manual for "the best thing since the Java language itself" Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) will radically streamline the application development process. It provides a standard way for developing enterprise-level Java applications. And, best of all, it comes equipped with built-in services like database access, security, and transaction monitoring. With EJB, programmers can simply write the business software and hook it into the EJB services it needs to work. The rush is on to develop EJB compliant applications. Filled with practical, proven tips and techniques, this book offers an overview of what EJB is, how it works, and how to build specific EJB applications. CD-ROM includes sample source code, the EJB specification and supporting code from JavaSoft, demos of EJB servers, and links to other sources.

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Super EJB book.......2003-03-23

Early this month I emailed Jacquie Barker (author Beginning Java Objects and Deploying Java Objects). This was the email and I quote "Yes, your email about the difficulties encountered by legacy programmers in transitioning to J2EE is indeed true. It took me quite sometime to really understand the whole concept, but after a journey (as you call it) distance equivalent to reading 5 different books on J2EE, I finally found one book which is for me, the super book on J2EE. This book is Mastering Enterprise JavaBeans and the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition by Ed Roman. Although this is a 1999 book on J2EE, the explanations are so thorough and graceful in presenting each topic, that I highly recommend this to legacy programmers new to the subject". To Ed Roman, thank you very much indeed.

Great Book..........2002-01-24

I'm new to this whole Java and come here with a background of C++/COM/DCOM. I must say, this book is written excellent. It gave me a very good understanding of what the heck is all about EJB and stuff around it.

Starting with a review of Server-side architectures, jumps into beans and building different kinds of them. Appendix items give very good idea of technology surrounding EJB.

While the theory part of the book talks about design and architectural issues, the code examples are the best to put you in a position to start building EJB apps immediately.

I strongly recommend this book. It definitely helps those people who have no idea about EJB so far.

Detail Coverage of the EJB Topic.......2001-09-28

A very good book to start off with EJB and is also useful for Developers too.

Excellent book to understand EJB.......2001-08-23

Excellent book to understand EJB. I downloaded this book from theServerside.com ( PDF format) and read it. The pdf content cannot be printed and it can be read online only. I will wait for the next edition to be out ( chapters for review are already available on theServerside.com) and then buy it. The next edition will cover EJB 2.0.

Looking forward to the EJB 2.0 book!.......2001-08-22

If this first book is any indication, the upcoming release from Ed Roman (and pals) is a purchasing no-brainer. Amazon.com already lists the second book and I notice that one of the authors is Floyd Marinescu of theserverside fame. What a powerhouse of authors and information!

The first book was well written and and the author was even available via e-mail for any questions or troubleshooting. The book is a MUST for any Java developers library!!

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