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Summary: Misleading Title!
Review: This is NOT about administration or development using JBoss, it is about the architecture and development of JBoss itself.That said, if you want to know WHY JBoss works the way it works this would be a decent book. If you want to know HOW to use it this will be worse than useless.
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Summary: An Amazing Software Product Rendered Transparent
Review: To ensure that nobody is disappointed by this important piece of an amazing product, I should first state what this book is not. This is not a friendly tutorial that shows you how to build your first J2EE application. This is not a step-by-step guide with lots of pictures showing you how to deploy an Enterprise Javabean onto the JBoss Application Server. This is not a book about JBoss 3.0, also known as Rabbit Hole. Despite some poorly named "beta" releases, the JBoss 3.0 feature set is still in flux. JBoss Administration and Development provides a ground-up architectural view of the JBoss 2.4.x product line. JBoss is an open-source J2EE-like application server, and this book teaches you how to wield that open source code as power. You won't learn much about how to use JBoss from this book (the JBoss website forums are good for that sort of info), but if you are a capable developer you will learn to navigate every line of source code of this complex product, and be able to make whatever changes are necessary to make JBoss your own. You will learn about why the developers made some of the design decisions they did, and you will learn how the team turned a mundane API for monitoring software into the backbone of an astonishingly configurable software infrastructure. And in the end, this book will make you a far better J2EE developer, even if you decide to go on and use Weblogic, Websphere, Orion, or one of those other products that did not win JavaWorld's Editors Choice Application Server of the Year Award.
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