I have been given an assignment to simulate an NFA in Java. Now the following regular expression that I have to simulate an NFA for is
ab*((b|d)|c*)
I think I have too many e-symbols. I was just wondering if the following image below is correct.

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Your NFA graph is correct. It will match the regex
ab*((b|d)|c*)and nothing else. However, it could be much simpler, e.g. like this: