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Summary: Enterprise Java concepts and real world examples
Review: Developing Java Enterprise Applications is designed to introduce the major Enterprise Java APIs; including JNDI, RMI, EJB, JMS, JSP and servlets. Each API is compared to similar technologies before being discussed and examples are provided.There are 3 layers of examples. Small examples to learn specific concepts, medium examples that show real world solutions with a single API, and 2 large examples that combine several of the technologies. The first large example is the source code for a small Java Messaging service (JMS) provider built with JNDI, JDBC and RMI. The second is an online store using JHTML, servlets, JDBC and Enterprise JavaBeans. The Web site for this book includes a link to our free implementation of Sun's JHTML standard for scripting Web pages with Java. Please note, we did not include CORBA in this book because that is a complete topic in itself. However, the material covered should integrate well into CORBA-based applications
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Summary: poor writing
Review: For the most part, I agree with the other reviews here. I just want to add something I'm suprised others left out - the author is no writer! Sometimes you have to read a sentence several times to understand what it really means, and even then some guessing is usually involved.
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Summary: This book is too heavy.
Review: I need to goto the gym. Can I return this book for a weightlifting book
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Summary: Good overview
Review: I spent a couple of hours in the bookshop checking out all EJB books. I'm pretty convinced this is one of best. It gives a good overview of all important Java Enterprise APIs. Sometimes rehashing the APIs, but it only for completeness and clarity. The examples are short but clear, although often they only change 1 line compared to a previous example, luckily the important things are in bold. Good overview, good tutorial. Nice job.
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Summary: A Solid Piece of Work
Review: I was called on by my company to develop a servlet application that uses jndi to interface an LDAP database. While I had done done previous work with servlets, I had no experience with jndi. Buying this book definitely paid off -- the chapter on jndi helped immensely and the chapters on servlets provide the information that is required for most servlet implementations (if you need to know all the sordid details about servlets, buy one of the books that specializes in servlet development). This book worked for me -- I'd definitely recommend it.
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Summary: Good book to get started with Enterprise Java
Review: It covers the most important Java APIs that the enterprise developer who uses Java. The books covers JDBC, RMI, JNDI, JTS, JMS, JSP, EJB, and a few other technologies. The book tends to alternate between explanatory and example chapters. So first, JDBC is discussed and then the next chapter walks through an example. Given the number of topics in this book, each topic is not covered in full detail as most of the topics are worthy of a book all their own (and many of them already have one). However, this book's goal is to cover just enough so you can understand the technology and get started using its core features. Therefore, this makes the book excellent for trying to figure what these technologies do. In fact, this book is readable by managers as well as developers, if the managers skip the example chapters. From reading this book, you get the impression that the authors have quite a bit of experience, have used the technologies discussed, and know what they are talking about. On the whole, this is a great book for getting your feet wet with Enterprise Java.
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Summary: Written by Java dilettantes
Review: 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 ?
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Summary: The price for this book is expensive for outdated coverage.
Review: The authors try to give some good coverage of Java enterprise applications but they examples are as old as "java.awt.swing.*" classes.Need to debug the examples to make them run on on Java 2 platform. The emphasis is also on printing debugging statements. (An additional debugger class for most of the examples). It is time authors updated the contents of the book or reduced the price.
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Summary: Good book but very outdated
Review: The content presented in the book is very impressive but the examples are so outdated that this book is useful for "Theory of Enterprise applications". The price for this book is simply outrageous for the outdated examples (oops! minus theory)
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Summary: Enterprise Development with Java 2
Review: There are a lot of books on the markets these days on J2EE, so finding what you what can be daunting. What this book offers is a good introduction or foundation to the Java Enterprise Technologies. It would be useful for any Java programmer/developer who wants to learn about these technologies but does not know where to begin. So if you do not know your JNDI's from your RMI's, your EJB's from your JMS's, your JSP's from your Servlets, or your JTS from your JTA's, then I would recommend this book for you.
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