Alright, I retract my previous assumptions about pointbase and bea

I really have no experience with it or any idea why it's in the sdk
I guess you could do a search for files with pointbase in the name and, if nothing turns up, assume that it's been removed for some reason. You should probably stick with 1.4 if you're reading a book for that, at least until you understand enough that you can make any necessary translations yourself. I imagine 1.5 is fairly different from 1.4 (didn't ejb3 make it into jee5?).