Oracle JDeveloper 10<i>g</i>: Empowering J2EE Development :

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Summary: An Overview book in general J2EE
Review: Reading some five star recommendations on this page I recommended this book to my client. Now I regret and will return ask for refund. This is more like a collection of White Papers on Jdedevloper and J2EE. Hey, if this is writing a book it is a good business. I really doubt the authors ever used Jdeveloper.

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Summary: Very disappointing, missing pages
Review: The book I bought from Amazon ends abruptly on page 230 of chapter 9. The table of contents lists chapter 10, 11 and Index, which are missing. I'll demand a refund for this incompetence! Wait for the Oracle Press release of Jdeveloper 10G (very detailed for the 9i Jdeveloper).

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Summary: A Thin Book
Review: The previous iteration of "how to" books for J2EE development using Oracle JDeveloper was titled "Oracle9i JDeveloper Handbook" -- it had 925 pages. "Oracle JDeveloper 10g: Empowering J2EE Development" has 270 pages and still manages to thoroughly cover the subject. And if you believe that, I go a couple of World Trade towers I want to sell to you. I term this book an "executive summary". Suitable perhaps for someone that wants to learn enough about the product to make a decision about whether to commit to it for a project -- but, not to learn enough to actually develop a J2EE application.

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Summary: good for j2ee with jdev
Review: this book is a good guide to to j2ee development using jdeveloper. The ADF section is more of a getting started guide however as we were anyway sticking to normal j2ee (servlet, jsp, struts, ejb and stuff) and were not looking at using Oracle's proprietary framework, that didn't matter much. For j2ee dev with jdev, this book is good. I liked the Struts coverage in particular.

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Summary: Very disappointing; save your $$
Review: This book is another example of sloppy workmanship being rushed into print without competent editing or proofing. The presentation is uneven and disorganized and over half of the examples do not work correctly. The author apparently used an early beta version of 10g - so the screen shots and directions do not correspond to the actual product; with patience one can follow the examples. However publishing a technical book that is so replete with errors that some of the examples will not even compile is in my opinion just inexcusable. Apress should be ashamed to have published this.

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Summary: Prophetic, but...
Review: This work was based on an earlier, beta I guess, version of 10g. When working through the examples on the REAL 10g I was severely challenged to figure out what the author was talking about versus what Oracle had actually included in the final version. In one area even the downloaded routines didn't work.
The good thing I can say is that this author seems to be the only one to produce a book of this kind! I'm still waiting for my (pre-publication order) copy of the official Oracle Handbook.