A very frustrating read... Big disappointment

I didn't count'em, but there's like 50 mistakes in the example code
very unprofessional
apart from that, the book is ok
it's a shame though
because I paid good money for it and
I would expect someone to revise the code thoroughly before going to print
after all... it's a programming book!
If you buy this book, don't expect a masterpiece

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In regards to the technical errors...
halfway through the book, it was disappointing
then they're annoying,
by the end of the book it was just sad


I'll give just one of many examples, just to illustrate:

"Only session beans and message-driven beans that define
a javax.ejb.TransactionManagementType of Bean
using the @javax.ejb.TransactionManager annotation
can manage their own transactions."

... later in that same page (388):

[...]
...you won't know which is which unless you go to the API!
Like I said, it's just disappointing, annoying and sad.


It was around chapter 17, when I started wondering:
"Where this guys drinking while they were reviewing the code?"

Mistakes in the last chapter were just plain insulting:
"Figure 21-7. Stateless version of ReservationManager"
is the stateful version! Jesus Christ!
Who edited this book!

Not even the index got away clean (p. 708):
"builing and deplying example programs, 538"

and this is O'Reilly

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• overrated
• A very frustrating read... Big disappointment