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Summary: Great book for beginners
Review: This book goes through a web auction scenario using J2EE technology and implementing the BEA WebLogic Server. It's intended for beginner Java programmers. I was suprised to see that they go step by step almost on everything. I was able to skip some pages just because I have that prior knowledge. I am glad that they did cover many of the popular areas of J2EE i.e. JMS. This is a great introduction to WebLogic Server and J2EE. A must in your library if you are working in the Application Server arena.
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Summary: Watch out -- the examples don't work
Review: This book has many errors. The typos are easy to tell, but many of the examples will not work without some tweeking. Unless you already know some basics of weblogic, and can figure things out yourself, you'll just sit there frustrated. I also found one example that seems plain wrong (formauth -- looks like you don't need login2.jsp at all), and it's very confusing.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: This book is an excellent survey of WebLogic Server 8.1 and, more generally, building applications with J2EE. It describes each of the functional areas of the server - JSP and servlets, EJBs, JMS, JDBC, security, administration, etc. It also reviews other technologies, such as web services, XML, and SOA, and how they relate to J2EE. The example application is thorough and useful. This is an excellent book for someone new to WebLogic Server and J2EE or an expert looking to polish skills.
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Summary: Good for a Weblogic beginner
Review: This book is definitely a good read for someone new to Weblogic. It covers the basic concepts pretty well.
However there is no detail on advanced concepts like Weblogic clustering, failover, etc.
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Summary: book right on, for the right people
Review: This book is definitely great for it's target audience: java developers wanting to learn J2EE and WebLogic. The detail and background involved are useful to avoid careless mistakes. There are also a number of tips at the end of each chapter that are very useful, as Weblogic is a complex product that is easy to foul up with poor design choices.J2EE super-programmers will likely find much of the material old hat, though the tips are useful for all audiences using WebLogic. There are a bit more typos than one would prefer and there's a bit too much whitespace, but the content more than makes up for that.
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Summary: Good for the right readers
Review: This book is very useful for the right audience - someone new to the J2EE environment and using WebLogic. While there may well be better books on JSP or EJB, this book helped me through the ins and outs of configuration and deployment where the WebGain and WebLogic tutorials did not. An experienced J2EE developer seeking in depth info on managing a WebLogic server will probably be disappointed, however.
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Summary: Best practices make all the difference
Review: This book is very well done. In reading through, I'm most impressed by the co-mingling of J2EE with WebLogic. As a WebLogic developer, it is a must because of the Best Practices. Any one of these can save hours of trials and tribulations. While I have learned many of these through direct work with WebLogic, it would have been amazing to have them all in a single book when I first started, as is provided here. Invaluable.
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Summary: No Meat. Example Code Does Not Work on WLS 6.1
Review: This is a very light overview of Weblogic and J2EE. This book is a step-by-step follow-the-numbers outline of how to get a particular example program to work. You will not find any indepth information on why things are done the way they are. A lot of space is wasted on screen shots of DOS shells that show how to run a .bat file. Even though it is advertised as supporting WLS 6.0, I am disappointed that the webauction example source code / build scripts do not work with WLS 6.1. Considering that this book was just published and that its copyright is dated as 2002 (sic), the example code should run on the current version of Weblogic. To add insult to injury, the "questions / comments" email address on their web site bounces.
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Summary: Good Book for beginner to intermediate
Review: Very good book for learning J2EE applications.
It has a section on message beans. I enjoyed this book.
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