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Developing Java Enterprise Applications, 2nd Edition
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Author: Stephen Asbury, Scott R. Weiner
List Price: $59.99
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ISBN: 0471405930
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (18 May, 2001)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 290,806
Average Customer Rating: 3.56 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 3 out of 5
Written by Java dilettantes
May be it's personal but I believe that those who are not geeks of their professions - shouldn't
teach others as well. If you're not fascinated by the topic you talk about - how do you expect
to write a good book ?! I think that this book was written by someone who learned Enterprise Java
just to pay his rent. Writing a book seemed just another possible income ..Why do I think so ? Well, topics are explained on the very primitive level and I can actually "smell" that authors
just don't know the material good enough to dig in - they repeat the same basic ideas many times
but leave lot's of questions unanswered (like "Why do some methods in this table return a variable
of a primitive type and others their object wrappers ? Is it just typo or something else ?"),
their code examples take pages but contain only couple of useful (and, again, trivial) lines and ..
typos everywhere (make up your mind already - is it "javax.naming" or "java.naming" ?). Whatever I look at - I see Java dilettantes, not Java geeks and not even Java professionals
(excuse me, but one who compares two Strings for equality using compareTo() instead of equals()
doesn't have a clue about Java for me !). I think it is still useful for getting the idea about major J2EE technologies (JDBC, JNDI, servlets,
JSP, RMI, EJB, JMS and JTA) but *on the very basic level*. That's what I keep it for. P.S.
The title should be changed to "Developing Java Enterprise Applications *for dummies*" because
authors DO treat their readers like a 14-year old kiddies - "type and press ENTER".
Folks, who do you think you're talking to in this book that you need to remind me about pressing ENTER ?
Rating: 5 out of 5
Enterprise Development with Java 2
This book is well designed and well written. It covers every topic needed for Java Enterprise Development. Topics like Java Message Service and Java Mail are covered quite extensively, not to mention JSP, XML, and Enterprise JavaBeans. Every topic needed to do real Java Enterprise development is here in this book.Each topic has several chapters dedicated to that subject as well as an application chapter which builds on previous chapters. Each chapter shows the needed diagrams and code samples to build the required implementation. Chapter 11 shows how to create a basic JSP Bug Tracking tool, which is one of my future projects that I am interested in doing. This book will make a great reference manual because it is well laid out and the index is extremely accurate. The book does have a lot of tables, diagrams, and code samples. The tables describe the methods, properties, attributes and packages covered in the book. ** I would highly recommend this book to an intermediate to advanced Java Programmer looking to do enterprise level development work. I rate this book at 4.5 stars. Jerry
Member of Colajug - www.colajug.org
Rating: 1 out of 5
Developing Java Enterprise Applications
This books tells you a lot of nothing. First 12 chapter does not even gets into EJB. The example code does not work unless you have some experience to debug them first. I would not recommend this book to any one accept someone new to java wanting to learn the new buzz words.
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