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I picked up a copy of Core J2EE Patterns, 2nd edition at JavaOne last month and I've finally had some free time to have a scan through it. Overall, the general layout of the book seems improved and there seem to be more code samples.

The core content of the book is essentially the same as the first edition, although some new patterns have been included. One example is the Context Object pattern that demonstrates how to remove technology and protocol dependencies in an MVC style architecture. Also, there is a new pattern within the integration tier called Web Service Broker that shows a way of exposing existing business services as web services.

It looks good but I'll have a better look through to discover what else has changed between this and the first edition. Finally, if any of the JetBrains guys are reading this, you're missing a great opportunity to advertise off the back of this book! To quote from the acknowledgments section, "we wish to thank JetBrains, Inc. for providing IntelliJ IDEA which we enjoyed using to code the samples in this book". Something for the home page perhaps?