A book on EJB

There is a free e-book available: Mastering EJB 3.0 The following chapters are covered by lectures in the course:

1. Overview
2. Pre-EJB 3.0: the world that was
3. The new EJB
4. Introduction to session beans
5. NO (Writing Session Bean Web Services)
6. Java Persintence with Entities
7. NO (Introduction to message driven beans)
8. Adding functionality to your beans
9. Advanced Perisistence Concepts
10. Transactions
11. Security - not yet covered, maybe later if some time will be left
12. NO (EJB Timers)
13. EJB Best practices (partly covered)

The following chapters are not covered. We did cover Appendixes A (RMI and IIOP) and B (Annotations)

The book doe not cover EJB Design patterns, which can be found in another book (old but in good part still valid).