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Summary: Professional Java Server Programming J2EE Edition
Review: Although I just started reading this book yesterday, felt it was written to the technical point, clean and precise. It covers all the major topics of J2EE in all dimensions, in terms of architectural view and implementation methodology. It is a very helpful and educational reference for people who works in every areas of J2EE, yet with a need to link and leverage all in a whole and in depth understanding of the J2EE technology.I will write to you again when I finish my reading. This book is dated in 2000, will the authors be writting a updated version which covers update-to-date J2EE, such as EJB2.0??
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Summary: Good, but still a lot of code errors.
Review: As lots of wrox book, this book does provide some interesting information. UML diagrams are used for better explanation, design issues for JSP, using XML with JSP, how interface object, control object and entity object fit EJBs, JMS, Corba, Unit test, are all well explained. However, as the non J2EE edition, the code still contains errors: for all the Primary key classes in examples of EJB, hashCode and equals are not defined, you have to add them yourself. There are errors for package names, for the example, in Chapter 20, Order and Product classes are defined in book.order and book.product classes, and other classes imported them from factory.order and factory.product classes. You have to change "book" to "factory" class by class manually! They used jBoss and orion server to implement EJB examples, I am not against these two servers, but I think it may be better to test the examples with Weblogic as well, since it is the most popular application server, they did not. And they never mentionned Weblogic in the book, not even in the appendix. In split of all these errors, there is no serious error, this is a good and interesting book.
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Summary: Thorough but not for beginners; Must have as a reference
Review: Each topic is covered very well. But if you do not know the topic already then it is a little too much detail. In my opinion this can be used as a good reference to all the individual topics covered. For example, I worked with RMI before and found the chapter on RMI broadened my concept significantly. Similar size chapter in other books was good for beginners but the concept was not conveyed as well as in this book. So here is my evaluation: 1. Read a tutorial or two from Javasoft on a given topic (including EJB). Then go through this book on that topic and you will find it much easier to follow. 2. Once you know the absolute basics you will know which sections to skip or read in detail. You will notice that they try to cover every little detail even though in some cases it may require a little more explanation. 3. Understand the fact that each topic can be a book of its own size. 4. I have seen some grammatical errors but given the difficult subject matters and the recentness of them I can definitely ignore them. 5. The book would have been better if a quick introduction was given with a simple but good example then if it went into the detail. 6. They probably should have given a bit more examples as they dove into the details but as it is the book is too thick to the point that it is bit difficult to handle. I wish they made it a multi-volume book and not a hard cover.
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Summary: Guide to the J2EE Territory
Review: I have gotten a lot of milleage out of this book. It covers many J2EE topics and can serve as both a tutorial and a reference. Before using this book, you should have a fairly good knowledge of Java. I used several sources of information in addition to this one especially when I was getting started and did not have enough perspective to really understand this book. But as time when on, I always found myself coming back to this book to remember how to do something or to find out what some other topic was all about.
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Summary: Guide to the J2EE Territory
Review: I have gotten a lot of milleage out of this book. It covers many J2EE topics and can serve as both a tutorial and a reference. Before using this book, you should have a fairly good knowledge of Java. I used several sources of information in addition to this one especially when I was getting started and did not have enough perspective to really understand this book. But as time when on, I always found myself coming back to this book to remember how to do something or to find out what some other topic was all about.
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Summary: Average Book!
Review: I would give an "average" rating to this book. Actually, it covers little of many topics that there is no comprehensive coverage of any. it may be useful for readers who are already familiar to an extent with the J2EE concepts, but for a novice I would definitely not recommend this book. Instead, you could buy separate books for individual J2EE topics that will help you gain an indepth knowledge in each of those!
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Summary: Professional Java Server Programming J2EE Edition
Review: If you need to learn in and out about J2ee, don't miss this one!!!! After I read this book, I understand stateless session bean vs. entity bean, java bean vs. stateless session bean ....etc The book is a bit wordy, but definitely worth reading !!!!!
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Summary: Excellent book on J2ee
Review: If you need to learn in and out about J2ee, don't miss this one!!!! After I read this book, I understand stateless session bean vs. entity bean, java bean vs. stateless session bean ....etc The book is a bit wordy, but definitely worth reading !!!!!
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Summary: Professional J2EE is good reference material?
Review: Overall the book is ok as a reference material. But not a really good as a teaching material. I found it to be not very concise in delivering the intended information. At times it feels that the authors are wondering aimlessly. However, the book is packed with good information making it a rather decent source of reference material...
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Summary: Professional J2EE is good reference material¿
Review: Overall the book is ok as a reference material. But not a really good as a teaching material. I found it to be not very concise in delivering the intended information. At times it feels that the authors are wondering aimlessly. However, the book is packed with good information making it a rather decent source of reference material...
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