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Professional Portal Development with Apache Tools : Jetspeed, Lucene, James, Slide (Wrox Press)
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Author: W. Clay Richardson, Donald Avondolio, Joe Vitale, Peter Len, Kevin T. Smith
List Price: $39.99
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ISBN: 0471469513
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (20 February, 2004)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 10,690
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 4 out of 5
A good place to start for Java / OS portal developers...
I ordered this book back in November 2003 and received it late in February of 2004. Needless to say, I was happy when I received it, but I was even happier to find that it contained a wealth of material that helped to me to understand the nature of portal development and therefore make more educated decisions in my own portal projects.I have been investigating a number options including PHP / Mambo, .Net's iBuySpy, and the various Apache offerings as well as Plumtree. The investigation has been daunting because there are so many disparate perspectives on the subject when it comes to standardization and implementation. This book does not necessarily solve the "grand design" problems associated with portal development, but it certainly helps to solidify one's understanding of the JSR 168 portlet spec and the tools available develop upon that spec. Given that understanding, one can gain a more coherent perspective of not only the solution, but really the problem itself. One of the problems with the open source community is that it doesn't have the same type of backing that folks like Microsoft have. Compare Jetspeed to .Net's iBuySpy. The .Net offering has way more documentation and it is far more cohesive and direct. Of course, that's because they want you to try it out and subsequently get entrenched in their product and so on. As an open source developer one is often left to fend for one's self through experience and hearsay. The learning curve can be discouraging to say the least. This book, however, helps to alleviate that suffering greatly. Also, it doesn't put me to sleep like O'Reilly books.
Rating: 4 out of 5
A very good book
The content of this book is top notch. Each chapter stands alone as an insightful overview of a particular topic (like Lucene).But the chapters are not tied together into a cohesive whole. I still highly recommend the book but it is not what you may think it is. You are not going to get a working portal from this book.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Great Book!
I was pleasantly suprised to find a book on JSR 168 and even more surprised with the excellent content of this book. The authors explain what it takes to make your portal's portlets JSR 168 compliant and they also give you valuable examples with popular open source tools. Nicely done - I highly recommend this book!
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