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Summary: Excellent Book, Don't be scared by other poor reviews.
Review: Hi This is very good book for weblogic,ejb and jsp with practical examples rather than boring theory. This is very good for reference for industrial projects also.
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Summary: bad book
Review: I bought this book to get a better handle of J2EE with WebLogic, unfortunately, it doesn't include much info on WebLogic and the flow of the book isn't very good.For example, in chapter 3, the authors tries to show you what bad designs are by teaching you how to actually do it. You end up learning bad designs and not knowing till the end of the chapter. Doesn't make a lot of sense. Why learn bad things when you should learn the right ways the first time around then simply mentioning what the bad designs are would be fine. A whole chapter with codes devoted to bad programming. While on the subject of chapter 3, I've found that the authors completely omited a section, they didn't explain OrderMaintenanceS. It completely frustrated me as I was reading it as I was wondering why I haven't seen StoreProcedure calls when they kept on mentioning it. I finally realize they have omitted it and didn't have codes in the book till Chapter4. Why they chose to do that I don't know, but I was surely confused and found myself flipping and flipping pages constantly for answers. Lastly, the examples given are not clearly labeled, after you have read it and just want to flip over to an example you have read, it is extremely difficult to find as they didn't label the example codes and you have to read to find what the codes belongs to where. Very bad book, stay away.
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Summary: if you bought this, you got took!
Review: i have to wonder about those people writing a positive review on this piece of garbage. one of the worst things is having to look at those two goofy smiling faces, cause you can't help end up resenting those guys (i don't want to call them authors cause they don't deserve to be called authors), until you finally realize this book is best tossed in the round file, and that you just got took.
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Summary: Very good book for developers new to Java based Web Apps
Review: I liked the way the authors use a common scenario, a company trying to make a traditional process (phone and fax based) appropriate for the Web. The authors help the reader think through moving a client server app to the web, and for many developers, that type of activity will be their first introduction to web programming with Java. The book doesn't get into any great technical details, and is not a book aimed at those who want to go into details of the WebLogic Server. The authors are programming J2EE, they use simple examples, that are meaningful. They do use some of the specific features of WebLogic, but WebSphere or any other J2EE compliant app server would do (that is kind of the point of J2EE, isn't it). They chose to target WebLogic, 'cause it is the best, on this point I agree.
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Summary: A failure from both sides
Review: I purchased this book because it was a perfect fit for what I want to do - develop J2EE applications centered around EJBs on WebLogic server. This was the only book I could find of this type. What I discovered is that that the authors, despite being BEA employees, didn't talk about WebLogic details very often. Also, they really didn't talk about EJBs with any detail. What they really spend the "core" of the book on is their "pizza shop" sample application. They talk about EJBs, J2EE, and WebLogic only just enough to explain how this sample application works and no more. At times, they give useful information, but mostly they should open a pizza shop (as one previous reviewer stated). Since reading this book, I have been reading the Wrox book entitled, "Professional Java Server Programming J2EE Edition", which covers the subject with great detail and success (however, it doesn't talk about WebLogic, of course, because it is not a WebLogic book) and I've come to expect from Wrox books. I would suggest forgetting this book and instead either get the other Wrox book I mentioned, or the new J2EE/WebLogic book coming out this month (ISBN: 0130911119) or else seek the online resources that can be found at javasoft.com and weblogic.com (these along could probably teach you everything you need to know). Also, as a side note, the sample "pizza" application that this book focuses on does not work with the new versions of WebLogic 6.0+. I was able to get some of it to work through trial and error, but failed to get the rest to work. Bottom line: I don't see a reason for anyone to get this book! Wihle at times it is slightly useful, it is mostly "pizza talk". Your money and time could be better spent on another resource. I gave it two stars because I believe that it is definately not worth more (unlike the insane people who gave it 4 or 5) and I also thought it was slightly better than a 1 pointer book - for which I would have simply used to start a fire.
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Summary: Authors should open pizza shop rather than writing Books
Review: I thought this book will have something on EJB in weblogic as it's title says "Professional J2EE Programming with BEA WebLogic Server" ... but this books looks like a menu in Domino's pizza ... not a Technical book. I'm One like ... I would say "THE MOST STUPID BOOK I EVER READ/SEE IN MY LIFE ... JUST NOTHING ABOUT WEBLOGIC ... NOT TECHNICAL BOOK If you have got more money ... to waste then only think about this book ... I feel authors for this book are novoice to J2EE technology and They themself don't know must about .. Weblogic and EJB. Actually when they wrote this book thay don't know .. WHAT's WEBLOGIC and WHAT IS EJB .... If any of you (who is reading this review) know Paco Gomez, Peter Zadrozny just tell them to come to me I'll teach them more about EJBs and Weblogic ... so they can't waste others money by writing such Books.
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Summary: A must have for WebLogic developers
Review: Last week I downloaded the book's source code and got it to work within 15 minutes. This morning I finally had a chance to read it. Great stuff! It is true to the title by focusing on things that are WebLogic-specific (like it or not, it is the market leader by a wide margin in the app servers space). This book is an excellent companion to the other new book by Wrox, Professional Java Server J2EE Edition. Having experience with servlets, JSP's and JDBC, and eager to take a plunge into EJB but don't know how? Skeptical about the performance ramifications of moving to EJB's? Wondering how to migrate business logic from PL/SQL stored procedures to session beans? Unsure about whether to use session beans or entity beans to access data? Trying to dedicde which database tables to model as entity beans? Thinking to maximize the performance of entity beans? You find answers to all the above questions and more in this book. Every chapter is heavy-duty, and there is hardly any fluff in it. The whole book evolves around an integrated e-commerce (Pizzas2Go) application, which grew from a straight forward servlets/JSP/JDBC app into a full-blown JSP/EJB/JMS/WAP app, with clear explanation of the design patterns and migration path. This is very helpful to IT shops who are at various stages of adopting the J2EE standards. The final chapters on performance testing in a stand-alone and clustered server environment are enormously informative. Having read all EJB related titles published in the last 12 to 15 months, I waste no time here in recommending this book to anyone currently doing or thinking of doing EJB work using WebLogic.
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Summary: An interesting case study
Review: The words "A Case Study" added to the title of this book would more clearly explain what this book is about. This book doesn't really work as a stand-alone introduction to J2EE development but should be thought of as a companion to your favorite J2EE book. The premise of the book is a case study of an imaginary company (Pizza2Go) which wishes to take its current applications and migrate them to a J2EE internet application. The migration goes through stages as the developers first move to JSPs and servlets followed by the edition of various Enterprise JavaBeans. Following sections include integrating a J2EE application with an ASP application, messaging using JMS, and adapting an application to handle wireless devices. The last section discusses how to thoroughly test your application including stress testing. The case study is the heart of the book and is both the book's strength and its weakness. The book features an enormous amount of code but in some places little discussion of that code. Without some knowledge of servlets, JSPs, and J2EE this book would be difficult to follow. However, if your complaint about other books is that the examples are too simplistic or not realistic then this book may be just what you want. Although the book does discuss topics within BEA WebLogic Server, there is little if anything that can not be adapted to any J2EE server. Overall, I found this book to be a very helpful and interesting case study.
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Summary: An interesting case study
Review: The words "A Case Study" added to the title of this book would more clearly explain what this book is about. This book doesn't really work as a stand-alone introduction to J2EE development but should be thought of as a companion to your favorite J2EE book. The premise of the book is a case study of an imaginary company (Pizza2Go) which wishes to take its current applications and migrate them to a J2EE internet application. The migration goes through stages as the developers first move to JSPs and servlets followed by the edition of various Enterprise JavaBeans. Following sections include integrating a J2EE application with an ASP application, messaging using JMS, and adapting an application to handle wireless devices. The last section discusses how to thoroughly test your application including stress testing. The case study is the heart of the book and is both the book's strength and its weakness. The book features an enormous amount of code but in some places little discussion of that code. Without some knowledge of servlets, JSPs, and J2EE this book would be difficult to follow. However, if your complaint about other books is that the examples are too simplistic or not realistic then this book may be just what you want. Although the book does discuss topics within BEA WebLogic Server, there is little if anything that can not be adapted to any J2EE server. Overall, I found this book to be a very helpful and interesting case study.
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Summary: Mis-Titled, but otherwise excellent
Review: There seems to be quite a bit of variance in the opinions of this book, so let me see if I can clear things up. The term "professional" in the title may mislead those of you who are already developing with J2EE and want to enhance your skills or gain some knowledge of Weblogic Server. If this is the case, I would suggest the wealth of excellent documentation on the BEA site instead of this book. I am a "professional" Java developer who is migrating into the world of enterprise applications. If you are in my situation, this book is a MUST HAVE. I was able to blow through it in a weekend and gained a solid foundation while doing so. Plus, I was able to do it with Weblogic (most other books use Tomcat or some other inferior product). In short, if you are experienced with J2EE, this book is not for you. However, if you are an advanced Java developer who has not yet written enterprise web apps, get this book before you start!
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