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Summary: reads like a poorly-written technical dissertation - avoid!!
Review: First, I'd like to implore Amazon to prevent racially inclined comments as presented by Ricardo Audano's review about this book on your website. Terrible books and writeups have crossed my table with authors from all spectrum of life - from all races, colors, and genders. So have many great books.Having said that, this book is simply awful! It shows that the authors know what BEA WebLogic can be used for and how, but they forget to tell you about it. It is as if you walked up to their desk one night and happened to pick up their scribbled notes. Examples strewn throughout the book are unnecessarily complex and without adequate explanations. Things seem out of sequence and new concepts are introduced without any prelude. So save your money and buy a better book...
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Summary: Good book for what its intent is !!
Review: I disagree with Amandeep's review. Dude this book was not to make you a master at EJBs. The book meets its purpose quite well. It gives you a good rundown on how to get started with Weblogic 7.0 and points you to material (such as the BEA docs) for in depth stuff on advanced topics. This is a good beginners guide. It is not, and not intended to be an advanced guide. Look at the BEA Weblogic 7.0 Bible for advanced stuff (coming out soon). You can look at the 6.1 Bible in the mean time.
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Summary: Not worth your serious consideration
Review: I have to agree with most of the other reviewers that this book shows all the signs of being hastily put together with absolutely no proofing or quality control. The concepts are poorly organized and the writing appears to have been translated from some other language. Worst of all are the many typos and missing parts. If you already know a bit about writing and deploying EJBs you will be able to hack most of the examples to work but I guarantee you will come away annoyed and frustrated. Look elsewhere to invest your training money.
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Summary: Very disappointed
Review: I needed a book that would explain how to write Entity beans with Container Managed Relationships (CMR) since this is new to ejb 2.0 and weblogic 7.0. I was surprised to see that the book doesn't cover this topic. however, the book does talk about one-to-one, one-to-many and many-to-many relationships along with uni and bidirectional relationships. The book only provides the definitions and doesn't elaborate on how to implement these relationships in Weblogic 7.0. These definitions are easily found on the web or in weblogic documents. Weblogic documents are available for free and have more information than this book. There is another book available "Sams Teach Yourself EJB in 21 Days", I found that book very helpful and it does provide deployement descriptors for Weblogic.
If you are looking for new features in EJB 2.0 or in Weblogic 7.0 then this is not for you.
I would recommend weblogic docs to anyone over this book. This is how cmp/cmr is covered in this book:- Container Managed Relationships: definition of one-to-0ne, one-to-many and many-to-many
definition of unidirectional and bidirectional relationships.
The book starts on new topic .......
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Summary: Examples don't work
Review: I was very disappointed with the quality control and scope of this book. It basically takes you through examples of deploying servlet, JSP, Stateless and Stateful session beans, BMP and CMP Entity beans, and Message-driven beans together with some ancillary technologies such as JTA. Good as far as it goes, except that it focusses far too much on the generic rather than the specific issues of using these on Weblogic, which is why people will be buying this book! The unforgiveible thing about this book is twofold. The examples are filled with mistakes, and the publisher has no complaint or erratta mechanism at all. They have a 'contact Sams' link on their website but as far as I can tell it's for the order department! Mistakes are forgivable in any book given that there is a reasonably speedy mechanism for getting corrections out, but Sams seems to believe that the transaction ends once they have your money. After that you are on your own. Which is fine if it works.
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Summary: Very low quality
Review: This book is a really poor text even for an introduction like the "teach yourself..." series. Theory is absent and confusing,
and the example code are so disgusting they made a few of my hair go white! I am gonna sue Sams for that! ;)
I absolutely do not recommend this text for someone new to
servlets jsp and ejbs.. if this is your first approach to the subject I doubt you will be ever able to recover!! It might be useful to someone who can already make sense of j2ee and wants a quick and dirty introduction on getting started with weblogic, but I would recommend a more solid and technically valid text.
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Summary: 1/3 of book related to Weblogic features, 2/3 J2EE,JSP,...
Review: This book is trying to cover many things (see contents) The only problem is that the examples provided do not work, due to inconsistencies or worse due to code errors. No code correction available on line. You are left to fend for yourself to get them working if you can! A beginner will not be able to get those the examples working. I would not recommend this book to a beginner.
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Summary: Great book for learning about WebLogic Server
Review: This book was really helpful in understanding the JSP tag libs part. Although it could do a bit better in the mutliple table mapping of the EJBs section, the style this whole book is presented in with the conscious emphasis on the OOPs part of programming is excellent. The supplementing sequence diagrams, and the practical applications, developed from the first chapter to the last, is very helpful in realizing the actual differences.
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