His latest book is also well worth reading. I could have good use a few years ago when I created my first major application with EJB 3 and have repeatedly asked me with a bad conscience if I can really do without DAOs z. B. or if I actually in the Entity may grab Beans functionality (both I did, because it gives me "of course" was released, although it has the past but everything not made so). This book has my architecture retrospectively "legitimized", because I have experienced such. B. that my enriched functionality Entity Beans to Adam Bien "PDO" are (Persistent Domain Objects) and represent a best practice today.
This book takes the world because developers with the patterns described by Adam Bien, new have a common language for the new enterprise Java. Except Adam Bien has to my knowledge no one created a "successor" to the "Core J2EE Patterns", so you can "Real World Java EE Patterns" probably refer to succeed - and indeed as a worthy very.