WebSphere V3.5 Handbook

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Summary: Good Book
Review: Becoming a WebSphere Administrator is a daunting task. The product is complex and IBM documentation is often abstract, theoretical, and incomplete. I struggled for a couple of months until I got this book. I found this book to be full of accessible information related to WebSphere configuration and maintenance. This book was exactly what I needed to become effective as a WebSphere Admin.

Rating:
Summary: Good Book
Review: Becoming a WebSphere Administrator is a daunting task. The product is complex and IBM documentation is often abstract, theoretical, and incomplete. I struggled for a couple of months until I got this book. I found this book to be full of accessible information related to WebSphere configuration and maintenance. This book was exactly what I needed to become effective as a WebSphere Admin.

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Summary: Full of typos
Review: I bought this hoping for an introduction to WAS. Instead, I found this full of typos and a badly made CD.

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Summary: so-so reference book
Review: I found this book unwieldy in it's size (1154 pages including the index and appendices) and not very helpful for the beginning admin, which is all of us, including IBM!! There are hundreds, if not thousands, of screenshots, but very little in the way of explanation. I need a book that addesses the tasks I most need to do as a WebSphere Admin, with explanations as to why and how to do them. I have found that IBM's online Infocenter for WebSphere is the best resource for this. Bottom line: As a WAS admin you should have this book, but Infocenter may be more helpful.