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Application Servers : Powering the Web-Based Enterprise
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Author: Jesse Feiler
List Price: $44.95
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ISBN: 012251338X
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann (13 December, 1999)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 259,470
Average Customer Rating: 2 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 1 out of 5
There is a really hands on description missing
In the preface Feiler wrote that his book is a introduction in the exciting world of application server from where we can develop and operate dynamic web sites. A promise which is not kept in Application Server. In a loose collection of topics around themes like website programming und the operation and products for such web appearances the author stripes some border themes. At the discusion of eCommerce there are some toughts about globalisation and the fall of the Berliner wall. Starting from design, looking with a very broad sight on application server aspects and the special requierements of software development for the internet, the author produces a lot of pages with very general topics. During passages, in which topics a covered which supposed to be known by the preface for instance there more than once discussion about the ISO seven level modell, without just one clear presentation of this modell. There are often repition and together with a very generous page layout there my be the suspicion of optimize the page count. Implementations like the discusion about very generel database aspects (What is a database? What means SQL?) are very tiring the professional reader aimed at. Interesting are the debate on really hot topics like the flame war Microsoft vs. Java and Sun. Feiler illustrates here some techniques in Active X programming and neglects very actual standards and features like J2EE base software development whitch is very common at application server sites. In a survey for a complete list of modern application server, where IBM WebSphere kit covers a huge space and there are interesting hints on procducts not really good known in Europe. Feiler is obviously a little Apple minded and keep out of the list all that Linux, GNU etc. software. If the products where more sorted with structure of the survey the text would be a very impressive lecture. But what Feiler sees for the Web-software field is for sure true for the books on this fields: "... if you insist of being perfect, this business is not for you." Jesse Feiler is definitive a profi.
Rating: 1 out of 5
Lacks the big picture view
This book does not convey the "big picture view".The book goes through several chapters exposing details of technologies and standards surrounding Application Servers and the Web overall. I didn't find any glaring mistakes in those explanations per se. But then the author completely misses the opportunity to put the details into perspective and tie them together in a coherent whole. Also there are no clear lists or guidelines as to what features to look for in an Application server and how to narrow the choices and pick one from the huge list of offerings. I can not agree more with the first reviewers comments here about the section (#4) titled 'Maintainence'. Seems like a complete filler. Who knows, maybe the Author did have something to say but maybe the publishers rushed this book to print before he could pin it down and refine it.
Rating: 1 out of 5
Very Bad book
Application Servers is pretty hot in the market and I thought this book would give a good architectural and design view as to how eCommerce Applications should be developed. Turned out to be utter diappointment. Looks like elementary book talking abc's about database,classes/objects, applets, beans, odbc/jdbc. Never ever by mistake buy it....
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