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Early Adopter JXTA: Peer-to-Peer Computing with Java
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Author: Sing Li
List Price: $34.99
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ISBN: B0000B0SY7
Publisher: Wrox Press Inc (December, 2001)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 2,183,995
Average Customer Rating: 3.4 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 3 out of 5
Good take off, EZEL crash
My first book on JXTA. No quite what i was hoping for, the first couple of chapters are excellent.
Working examples accompanied by diagrams and pictures, really helpful.
BUT....
As soon as Mr Li gets to the EZEL library (which i failed to find) the book gets hugely complicated. Why? Because you can't find the EZEL library (at least not in the edition i had), and part of the book is dedicated to teaching programming JXTA with that library. What if i wanted not to program with EZEL? what if i want to write my own library?
At this point i didn't feel comfortable and had to skip those chapters to the working examples at the end, which again were good.
If you are starting JXTA then it might be worth reading the first few chapter, but beware of some spelling mistakes and assumptions made regarding your knowledge of Java.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Good, apart from the EZEL lock-in
If you are new to JXTA and P2P computing, this is the book you need. If you want to know all about the JXTA API, you might want to look around a little more. I loved chapter three, providing an overview of what is going on behind the scenes. This is an excelent example of how this book fills the gap. The only thing I found a little disturbing is the flood of different views on the JXTA architecture. The one thing I *really* hate about the book is the EZEL lock-in. EZEL (Eazy Entry Library) tries to hide the JXTA complexity by wrapping it in a simplified API. First of all, it appeared be quite hard to track the EZEL code. (It appeared to be part of the general code download at WROX.) Apart from that, it completely hides the JXTA API, so in a way, the title of this book could have been changed to 'Early Adopter: EZEL'.
Rating: 1 out of 5
You gotta be kidding....
This book is a REAL disappointment from Sing Li and Wrox. I have
other books by Li (Jini) and it is excellent... First off, about half the book requires a library called EZEL. The thing doesn't exist. It's not at jxta.org, there's nothing at the Wrox website. So, on page 154, under "Creating Our Very First JXTA Service", you get stopped dead in your tracks because of this non-existent library. If I see Sing Li or the Wrox folks at Java One this year...
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