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Building Scalable and High-Performance Java Web Applications Using J2EE Technology
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Author: Greg Barish
List Price: $44.99
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ISBN: 0201729563
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co (27 December, 2001)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 163,524
Average Customer Rating: 4.27 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 3 out of 5
Shallow yet useful to some extent, but comes at a high price
This book although repeats a lot of basic information like the internet is mostly comprised of TCP/IP, and then there is UDP over IP. The most shocking thing was to see the Author refer to UDP as Unreliable Datagram Protocol, where as that is the most common pun made of UDP, but it really stands for User Datagram Protocol.
If one is willing to ignore such basic errors and continue on still trusting the author, they would find some useful concepts. This book hence can be used as a concept Dictionary, where one could pick the book go to the index, and look up the concept like web caching, connection mgmt etc, and read about it, along with performance and scalability implications.
If you keep your expectations low, then its a good book. But well at $45 retail price, how many people would keep their expectations low ?
Rating: 1 out of 5
Absolutely useless
You can think of buying this book if ( and only if ) you haven't even heard about SQL, relational DBs, HTTP and server side java. If you have even a beginner level knowledge of any topic above you won't find any new info in this book: it's extremely shallow. One of the worst technical books I've ever seen ( there was nothing to read ).
Rating: 5 out of 5
Very readable, informative, and well-written
I found the book to be extremely readable, informative, and well-presented. It's a nice introduction for people who are new to web server applications programming and performance/scalability issues in distributed systems, and it's a nicely written and well-organized refresher/reference for people who already are somewhat familiar with those topics.
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