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Summary: Strongly recommended to buy
Review: 1. It is easy to read and includes step by step explaination. 2. All in One for J2EE study, very details, especially in Web application(chapter 1 - 27) 3. The book also includes project examples for java web application(chapter 18-20: Developing e-commmerce application, XML-based E-Books, and Web-Based Document Management). The examples give me a deep undestanding on how to combine/choose Servlet, JSP, and/or JavaScript for developing a certain web application 4. The book will be really excellent if the author can also provide a project example for EJB Application (chapter 28-33) like the ones for web application (see no 3).
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Summary: This book is a total disappointment
Review: After reading all the positive comments, I bought this book. After reading it, I was totally disappointed.
The writing style is good, but technically this book is weak and full of errors. There is no doubt that the author never tested the code. The code listing on the CD rom is just a bunch of text files ending with with .txt extension. The book is no more than a copy & paste of stuff taken off the net. For example, to explain the BMP entity bean, the author used a ProductBEan example, in the ejbLoad() call, the product ID member field was used. But does the author understand the ID field must be set somehow? This is done in the ejbActivate() call in SUN's online tutorial, but in the book the ejbActive() is empty. Clearly, the author does not understand the life-cycle of ejbs. So if you are looking for a J2EE book, look elsewhere, if you are trying to learn some JSP, it may offer some help.
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Summary: Best Book in J2EE
Review: Are you new J2EE then this book must be your first book? Super Introductory book. I have read couple of very good J2EE books, I found this book the best avove all. Highly recommeneded book. Very systemetic and thorough. Easy to read and follow. I have found all codes working.
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Summary: Great Book
Review: Being a developer that was going from C++ and Client-Server to
Java and a Thin Client J2EE enviorment this book was a real
find. I have read 3 other books on Enterprise Java Beans that gave me the standard API definition but this book went farther to give examples that showed me how to implement it.
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Summary: It Will Become a Classic
Review: Contains a rare combination: Is serious, detailed, not boring, and the most important, make you really learn the techniques that it describes. When you decide to purchase a technical book, the real investment that you make is not the price of the book, but the time that you spend reading an studing it. Well, it worths every second of reading. I rarely remember such a learning experience, just when I read "Basic Basic" in the early 80's (I was really younger then...) Nothing more to say: you will really learn.
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Summary: From someone who loathes computers
Review: Given the option, I would prefer to live during the late 1800s (with today's medical technology of course) when the republic was mature and very free. People weren't bombarded with information and noise back then and the world was still big. But I digress.
I just got a new job in this miserable business and I had to come up to speed quickly on this stuff. I love the tone and pace of this book. I am definitely not the type of person who would read anything related to computers in their spare time. But I actually plan on reading this book from cover to cover. Each chapter builds on knowledge gained from the previous chapter at a very comfortable pace. This tends to build your curiosity about the next subject. After two days I no longer have a fear of the unknown. Excellent book.
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Summary: New to Servlets , JSP, EJB ? Then you need this book
Review: I bought many books from many authors to learn how to build a web site using Java, and this is just another excellent book to have. Trust me, you will get hooked as soon as you start reading page 1.
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Summary: Help needed with configuring Tomcat-chapter 1
Review: I bought the book after going through the reviews given by readers....this book is definately an excellent guide to learning the j2ee platform and services...being a novice I had a VERY HARD time configuring Tomcat to run the examples, I am not sure if anyone else faced the same problem, but the instructions in the Apendix and those in Chapter one of this book are no help when it comes to getting Tomcat configured correctly. I followed the directions given by the author several time, but had no success...the website for Tomcat sucks all the more...if anyone has a better idea of configuring Tomcat to run the examples in this book please email me at okzgen@hotmail.com....I know this is not a newsgroup...but hey if this works, great!!!
thanks....
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Summary: File Download Works
Review: I bought this book after reading the author?s article at Java Pro site on file download. That article helped me solved the problem I had had for weeks. Previously I had tried to find the solution in many books, not only servlet/JSP books, but also ASP and PHP books, to no avail. This technique (how to send a file and make the browser display the Save window) is simple, i.e. it works by adding a certain HTTP header. Surprisingly, the author was the first (and probably the only one) to publish such a technique. I think all web programming books should include this important technique. The book comes with free file download bean that is very easy to use, and also explains how it works. I don?t understand why the other reader from South Africa experienced problems with the bean because the bean works on the server side. Once the file gets sent to the browser, its the browser?s responsibility to save it to disk. Was he using a non-standard browser? (I myself use Netscape and IE) I also disagree with his view on long code. Pages of code, to me, show that the author was really serious in presenting real-world projects. What?s important is the code is well documented and easy to understand, which it is. The author seems to be a programmer himself. He knows what the real problems in web programming are and offers solutions to them. This is a very good book.
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Summary: My Choice After Some Research
Review: I bought this book, after spending two hours comparing this with the other two popular titles, "Core Servlets and JSP" and "More Servlets and JSP". The three are supposed to be the best titles in the category. It was not an easy job. The three are well written and explain the concepts very clearly. I failed "Core Servlets" straight away, because it covers Servlets 2.2 and JSP 1.1 and not the more recent 2.3 and 1.2. "More Servlets" has a better cover than this book and it was published by Prentice Hall, a more prestigious publishing company than New Riders. However, looking into the table of contents more closely, I could point out that this book (Java for the Web), with 200 more pages, has much more meat. It beats "More Servlets" in almost all aspects, except that "More Servlets" covers JSTL beta. However, this book covers many more not found in "More Servlets", such as caching, file upload, document management, JavaScript, EJB, Application Design, etc. There is also some freebie software not found in "More Servlets". After reading half the book, I would say I'm very happy with it. Well done.
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