Matt West

Hi Chris
You can download free copies of the Ed Roman's "Mastering EJBs" and Floyd Marinescu's "EJB Design Patterns" from The Server Side website. Both these are excellent.
Hope this helps
Matt

Hi Simon

c:\java\cert\classes>jar -cvmf Manifest.MF cert/runme.jar suncertify/db etc..

You can create your runme.jar from your classes dir by doing:
c:\java\cert\classes>jar -cvmf Manifest.MF [B]../[/B]cert/runme.jar suncertify/db etc..
But a better way would be to create the jar from your top-level cert dir; you do not have to be in classes to get the proper dir strucute. You can use jar -C option. Can't remember the exact format though, sorry. I've switched to using ant for all this stuff and things are no longer foggy.
Hope this helps.
Matt.

I like

Patterns in Java Volume 1

by Mark Grand. Its subtitled

A Catalog of Reusable Design Patterns Illustrated with UML

and published by Wiley.
Its has a nice clear layout and does not have much fluff in it.