Best way of learning EJB and EJB-QL!

My interest is in EJB-QL in particular! What is the best way of learning EJB-QL ?
Long-hand or with an IDE ?
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Type them manually

And then what ?
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HS-
download JBoss, open notepad and start writing code. If you haven't done this, start by writing the famouse hello world EJB. This will get you up to speed with the interfaces (remote, home, local home, etc..), it'll familiarize you with session beans, etc.
Deploy the application and test it.
Now put more stuff, create an entity bean and start using JBoss with a DB (mysql, for instance). Insert some records and retrieve them using a session bean.
Once you've mastered this, start looking at ejb ql. There are excelent articles in IBM developer works that you can follow. They help a lot.
good luck

Thanks Andres. The developer works articles sound like a good idea.
I want to do some complex queries with EJB-QL so I thought an IDE might be quicker.
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would EJB-QL be easier to learn for one who already knows SQL like triggers, SP, functions etc?

Originally posted by Billy Tsai:
would EJB-QL be easier to learn for one who already knows SQL like triggers, SP, functions etc?

Yep! EJB-QL is mostly a subset of SQL, but it adds some capabilities for navigating over relationships between betweens. So it has to reflect the object-to-relational aspect of the bean, but yes Billy, people who know SQL have a very easy time with EJB-QL! : )
cheers,
Kathy

Hi,
Is there any guidance on how big an EJB query should be ?
Can you have a EJB Query made up of other EJB queries, like you have with SQL views ?

Originally posted by Kathy Sierra:
So it has to reflect the object-to-relational aspect of the bean

I guess the above has something to do with the size of a bean.Whatever works (ie within a millisecond response time)!
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[ September 24, 2003: Message edited by: HS Thomas ]