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Summary: Excellent, comprehensive resource
Review: As a professional server-side developer, I found this book to be well written in almost all parts, and very thorough. It's difficult to provide so much information in a book covering so many topics, but this one does a great job. I recently gave a poor rating to another wide scoop book (Red Hat Linux The Complete Reference) because it lacked any details at all. If you are serious about learing the various topics, this is a great place to start.
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Summary: Corba? What corba.
Review: One of the reasons I got this book was it looked like it talked a little about Corba. It did but it was very very little.
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Summary: If you like their ASP books...
Review: If you like their ASP books you'll like this. Along with Field's book on JSP, they have all the information that a programmer familar with Java and HTML needs to create and deploy JSP and Servlets using JDBC for data support. If you don't know Java and never worked in a web environment, this book presumes too much. The biggest weaknesses are the more advanced Enterprise topics like Name Spaces, EJB and JTS. In that since, the topics are hit and miss, much like Wrox ASP 3.0 is in the advanced topics. The Roman book on EJB and the Fields book on JSP are great supplements or prerequistes to this. If yo can't get a JSP Web server running after the Fields book and downloading Allaire's JRUN, this book won't help. If you can't create a EJB project after getting through Roman's book, and downloading something like Bea's web logic EJB server, or something comparable, this book won't help.
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Summary: Excellent Book
Review: I think this book is the only one of its kind.It covers all the server side aspects of Java Programming Language.The presentation of the matter is also very Professional.I think this book is for any programmer who has knowledge of basic Java Programming Language and Server concepts.
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Summary: Great Book for Beginners!
Review: I had purchased this book few months ago.It's well written and everthing is explained excellently.i really gained lots of knowlede from this book.ya...may be u can find all this info on the net,but still it better to read when all are stored in one place.i cut down one star for the high price :-0
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Summary: A lot of subjects, none in depth...
Review: This book covers a lot of the technologies of Server-side Java application development. However, it doesn't cover them in depth to make this book the reference in any of these technologies. Another drawback, is the work and difficulty involved in setting up the software products necessary to replicate the environment used in the book, which is not covered at all in it. Buy this book only if you're trying to get a single one-shop coverage of these topics. Don't buy it if you're looking for comprehensive coverage of Server-side Java technology (actually, you'll need several different books for that).
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Summary: One book won't do any justice
Review: If one expects to find sufficient information in one book to get started (I mean to do professional programming and not the "HelloWorlds") in servlets, EJB's, JSP and rest of J2EE architecture, then one has to search really hard. Rather one should buy at least 3-4 books to do any justice to any of these topics. Some of them are the usual suspects - Java Servlet Programming, Enterprise JavaBeans, Advanced Java 2, etc. This book might be useful for servlet programming and not much else in my opinion. I was "convinced" by earlier positive reviews on this book to buy it and was disappointed. So take any review including this with pinch of salt.
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Summary: GOOD BOOK
Review: I purchased this book few days back and found to be good.This is helpful only if you want to get aware of particular server side technology like servelts,JSP,XML. If you are looking for depth knowledge of any subject go for a book which deals only on that subject.JSP is covered good in brief, particularly the Database example is good to understand the JSP concepts.Only recommended if you are working in more than one server side technologies.
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Summary: Jack of all ... master of none
Review: The authors have tried to cover most of Java enterprisetechnologies in a single book . Couldnt do justice to any of them.JSP coverage is minimal and inadequate . Professional programmers mustlook for books specialising on this topics: I am listing some of them here. *Java Servlet programming By Jason Hunter *Enterprise Java beans By Richard Monson-Haefel *Java XML programming - Wrox press *Professional Javaserver pages - wrox press... There are umpteen good books on XML/XSL basics . Please do not waste your money on this title.
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Summary: This book worth between 4 and 5 stars
Review: This book is rich, overview of almost all advanced features of java, clear enough in the text. But as previous reader already mentionned before, there are too many errors in the examples, the code downloaded from internet is not the same as in the book (but almot the same). What's more, they do not fix the bug on the internet, why ? They are lazy? They publish for publishing? I recommend this book to read and to read only, but if you want to really test it, you should spend time to debug for almost every chapter, and during the time, you can hope yourself become a java expert as well as a debug expert. What a wonderful thing! I suggest reviews to give 1 star to this book until the authors fix the bug existing in the code (on the internet immediately and in the text also in next edition). I do not give this book 1 star because I really love it in split of the erros. In fact, if possible I can give it 4.5 stars, 5 stars means perfect and this book is not although it can become perfect immediatly after the errors are corrected on the internet.
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