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Summary: A Hands-on EAI book
Review: (+) Real world examples showing how to build EAI applications using JMS, J2EE Connector Architecture.
(+) Good code examples for J2EE-COM Integration, Distributed Transactions.
(-) First 4 Theory chapters, "JUST DON'T WORTH IT".
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Summary: J2ee EAI
Review: After reading this book I found it to be minimally useful as far as detailed examples are concerned. However, the author covered many various options and technologies used in enterprise application integration. Some of the approaches included were JCA, Web Services, and JMS, but as I said before, lacked in examples.The book however, does provide good references to resources that I found useful for accomplishing the task of EAI. The author even covers some Open Source projects that proved to be interesting. I would only recommend this book to those just beginning EAI and have a firm grasp on the Java language. The book is fairly suitable for reference if you a looking for different approaches to a solution but do not need any detail examples.
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Summary: Good J2EE book with EAI examples.
Review: I bought this book after a long search to find out J2EE component examples for JMS, XML, J2EE Connectors and XA transactions. Ofcourse this book solved my EAI problems using J2EE components. (+) Good examples on JMS, XML processing, J2EE connectors, JTA transactions and implementing custom security.
(-) Theory chapters discussing why J2EE. Finally, It's a great book, worth reading for cut & paste EAI examples.
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Summary: Best book for J2EE 1.3 with EAI examples
Review: I bought this book exactly two months ago. It helped me to solve many problems associated with my current EAI project. The examples provided works well with BEA Weblogic 6.1. Especially the chapters on JMS, XML and handling transactions were very heplfull.I do some books on EAI and J2EE. But those books did'nt cover well Integration. I would recommend to everyone who is especially involved in J2EE based integration projects.
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Summary: Book for hard-core J2EE applications.
Review: I bought this book, almost six months ago. So far, this book helped me to implement couple of hard-core J2EE projects involving EJB, XML and JMS. I just reused the chapter example code provided with this book. It also enriched my skills in XML, JMS and EJBs particularly to learn messaging applications . It also helped me to chalk out the complete architecture and development process. I strongly recommend this book, who are in pursuit of implementing large scale J2EE projects. - Ron
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Summary: A good foundation for developing Web Services
Review: I found this book very useful for everyone who uses J2EE platform and has some existing applications in other technologies. The book gives in-depth overview of all possible approaches and technologies and the examples are good too. This book is for developers with some experience in J2EE and addresses some problems I couldn't find anywhere else. What I found particularly useful was the EAI architecture, which shows how to develop Web Services in J2EE and how to connect them with existing applications. This is exactly what my problem was!
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Summary: Too basic
Review: No decent EAI examples. Good for managers looking at using J2ee to integrate systems, offers ideas to some TA's, but little help to the seasoned developer. We already know what an EJB is...
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Summary: Good J2EE example book for advanced applications.
Review: The authors did a real good job focussing all the fundamentals of EAI and J2EE with solid examples. This book has been very helpful for me especially to understand XML, JMS and distributed transactions using J2EE components. The examples are really cool. The book is very much targeted to BEA Weblogic users! I think so...! Overall the chapters and examples are great and it is definitely worth a buy.
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Summary: So much to learn from this book - buy it now!
Review: The book's first chapter introduces eai and an overview of j2ee technologies.
Chapter 2 discusses choices and strategies when deciding on integrating applications. It can be quite dry and academic at times but worth reading. Many fundamental concepts are presented and provide the building blocks for the rest of the book. There is no real mention of j2ee or java in this chapter, the strategy is universal across different component models and architectures (j2ee, corba or .net).
There are chapters on ;
how j2ee could be used for eai.
when in the project to integrate.
what are the different techniques used to integrate.
How can xml and messaging be used for eai.
Modeling process using uml.
There are two chapters focusing on corba and rmi-iiop
Chapter 12 shows how to integrate using ejb. This also covers using ejb 2.0, message-driven beans and cmp 2.0. The reader should be familiar with ejb, cmp, bmp and the value object design pattern.
The book also has chapters on the j2ee connector architecture, windows com bridges, transaction management (ots, transaction api), security management, presentation and finally web services. The section on security and single sign-on is interesting. This book is aimed at java developers with a few years experience. You will need good knowledge of java and some knowledge of xml, uml and component architectures (CORBA, ejb). If you need to understand how to integrate your new j2ee solution to use existing (legacy or otherwise) applications then this is a good book to read.
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Summary: not helpful
Review: this book did not help me. i hv been a j2ee programmer for 2 years working on j2ee 1.2.1. i bought the book to understand eai support of j2ee. but the book does not explain it very well. i cannot understand a lot of sentences...
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