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Summary: Touch on some important concepts
Review: I bought this book only after I have done some development on servlets.This book provides an insight into Database Connection pooling and some other design issues. Really good to have by your side.
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Summary: Good one
Review: It is a good book. Directly writing how to get connected to a database and obtain the resultset, which is a most popularly used application, made my life easier especially because my live, tightly scheduled project was totally based on retrieving data.
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Summary: A talented collection of writers with fine knowledge.
Review: A book for people who have a little knowing about JAVa & the other features in this book!
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Summary: Not For Professionals
Review: I bought this book a few months ago and I found out that it covers the basics of J2EE. Imagine 10+ authors. Each talks about their own thing and then they slap it together and call it a Wrox Published book. My gripes with this book are:
1. Unfocused. Topics jump from rather quickly and do not ease you into one another.
2. Code is filled with example codes that do not work.
3. Did not stay with one topic and cover it enough.
4. Price Good things about the book:
1. Has a pretty nice red cover so I know Wrox made it.
2. It's pretty big so if a rat manages to get in the house, I can squash it with the book, not that I would do such a thing.
3. Makes people go "WOW" when they say, "you actually read that whole thing??" given the number of pages. Unfortunately, this is not one book that I've been hitting on for help at all. It's usually the last resort to look up information since I usually find the answers I need elsewhere. The material provided in this book is too spread out and not covered enough in detail to be of much use. However, for those who just want to get a feel for the J2EE technologies, I say you would enjoy this book. But it would outlive its usefullness after some time.
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Summary: Great book
Review: Over all this is a great book. It give you the overall idea on Java Server Programming. If you really serious on specific topic, you have to buy another one. It is good for the beginner to grap the general idea on Java Server Programming.
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Summary: Not for serious developers
Review: I would reccomend this book only to people who are new to Java Programming and want an overall treatise with something on everything possible server side. But for those who are already in this field for a while and want to build on their knowledge this book would be a big disappointment. The other main drawback of this book is its bulkiness. This book does cover some of the topics like servlets in detail good enough for a serious programmer but most of the other topics introduced are not exhaustive enough for a serious developer. To sum it up, rather buy books on individual topics and build a solid base than adorn your bookself with fancy Wrox books.
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Summary: Unfortunately Outdated
Review: Although, this book was a great reference about a year ago, I am shocked it's still selling and that it has retained its selling price of ~ $50. Do yourself and WROX a favor, get an updated J2EE book which will greatly improve your ability to successfully navigate the server-side world of Java, and send WROX a message to start selling books which are no older than 6 -9 mos old.
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Summary: No focus.
Review: This is a wonderful book covering many topics of interest to the Java community. It is detailed and comprehensive. It is an indispensible desktop guide to anyone writing Enterprise Java applications.
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