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Summary: Better Books Available
Review: Agree with other reviewer. Not very helpful. Very light on WSAD. Recommend Livshin book over this one.
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Summary: Don't Risk Your Job on this Book
Review: Code examples not very helpful. Little help when it comes to running test server or Websphere MQ integration. Five star reviewer is clearly friend of the author or the author himself.
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Summary: Very very ligth book on Websphere...
Review: Do not buy this book if you are looking for in depth information on websphere and J2EE. The first 8 chapters are not related to websphere at all, html page, making a simple java app, simple debugging, a whole chapter on how to make an html link. If that was not all, chapter 12 is on Javascript. Chapter 13 is on simple java inheritance, if I buy a book like that I probably know about java/inheritance. Chapter 21 is on CVS and code versioning... In fact only 10 out of the 24 chapters are about Websphere and J2EE. This is really not worth the money.
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Summary: Horrible Book!!!
Review: I bought this book based on the 5 star rating and I now understand that it must be books author who provided that review. If you use this book to learn WSAD you will lose your job. You've been warned. If you don't beleive me I have a used copy that I'm willing to part with.
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Summary: Great Book
Review: I bought this book to learn how to use WSAD. It has lots of examples with the code included in each chapter. I wish there was a CD, but I got the code for the web site. The examples were helpful way to learn all the different ways to develop J2EE applications in WSAD. The Websphere tool is a bit complicated, so this book helped me learn how to get around it and get something done.
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Summary: Good book on WSAD
Review: I really like this book because it not only covers WSAD but it also shows practical tips for developing web applications. It makes for a good mixture of how to use WSAD and many different examples from JSPs to message driven beans. I don't agree with the reviews that call it light on WSAD, only the first chapter covering J2EE concepts does not have anything on WSAD.
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Summary: Good, but not nitty gritty
Review: I used this to get a JSP up an running on WSAD pretty easily. Not a lot of nitty gritty info on EJBs (like 1:N relationships), but a good read nonetheless.
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Summary: Examples are incomplete from chapter to chapter and worse
Review: The author vaguely addresses much of the subject matter. He definitely tells you which buttons to click on to complete a specific type of exercise but, makes little effort to tell you what goes on behind the scenes and why your putting components where they are (doing this would be signficant improvement, rather than assuming the reader has this knowledge).I had a problem with this book because each example in most of the chapters built on previous chapters, which I didn't need or want to do. As a result the source code was incomplete for each chapter (no WAR files etc.) For example, Getting the code to run for chapter 10 required following every step in 3 or 4 other chapters that were not relevent to creating a JSP. To make matters worse I had to go back and figure out where these steps were in what previous chapters. The book takes on too much (or needs another 500 pages) and as a result misses explanations for critical concepts and operational procedures. A simple complete unique PROJECT example zip for each chapter would be a huge improvement, at least then we could figure it out ourselves. A message to the Author: Go checkout "Professional IBM Websphere 5.0 Application Server". This book goes the extra distance that it takes to make the process of learning WSAD as easy as possible. Yep, it costs twice as much as your book and takes twice as long to read (it has the extra 300+ pages) but, you know the old saying. You get what you pay for. By the way I have no connection with the folks that wrote that book (their IBMers), never met 'em. I'm an Oracle bigot. I apologize for the drubbing, but it's my honest opinion. I know the old saying about opinions...
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Summary: Examples are incomplete from chapter to chapter and worse
Review: The author vaguely addresses much of the subject matter. He definitely tells you which buttons to click on to complete a specific type of exercise but, makes little effort to tell you what goes on behind the scenes and why your putting components where they are (doing this would be signficant improvement, rather than assuming the reader has this knowledge). I had a problem with this book because each example in most of the chapters built on previous chapters, which I didn't need or want to do. As a result the source code was incomplete for each chapter (no WAR files etc.) For example, Getting the code to run for chapter 10 required following every step in 3 or 4 other chapters that were not relevent to creating a JSP. To make matters worse I had to go back and figure out where these steps were in what previous chapters. The book takes on too much (or needs another 500 pages) and as a result misses explanations for critical concepts and operational procedures. A simple complete unique PROJECT example zip for each chapter would be a huge improvement, at least then we could figure it out ourselves. A message to the Author: Go checkout "Professional IBM Websphere 5.0 Application Server". This book goes the extra distance that it takes to make the process of learning WSAD as easy as possible. Yep, it costs twice as much as your book and takes twice as long to read (it has the extra 300+ pages) but, you know the old saying. You get what you pay for. By the way I have no connection with the folks that wrote that book (their IBMers), never met 'em. I'm an Oracle bigot. I apologize for the drubbing, but it's my honest opinion. I know the old saying about opinions...
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Summary: Bad is Too Good a Word!
Review: The best thing about this book is the cover. Bad very bad. Should be 70% off.
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