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Summary: Not a Good Book for Hands On
Review: As you browse through this book, it looks very impressive but when you try to use the CD-ROM with what they are talking about in the book, there is a great disappointment. No code examples on the CD-ROM and illustrations don't match with the software provided on the CD-ROM. Looks like there is some disconnect between CD-ROM maker and the author of this book.
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Summary: can be better
Review: Good stuff: Covers wide range of technologies and allow you to quick grab a lot of new stuff. If you novice in web development you can read about ejb,servlet and etc in one book and it saves your time. Bad stuff: Examples have a lot of mistakes, and when you try to run your first ejb and you need to fix a lot of typos in code it wastes your time. Authors use WAS2 and your probably will use WAS3, so all explanation about deployment is useless. If by the time you will read this review you can buy another book - buy another, but now it's only one about websphere so you just have no choice.
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Summary: Good Book for the WebSphere Novices
Review: Last week I finally got a chance to start reading the book, on a very long flight to Asia. Great Stuff! The book is very readable, and is true to the title by focusing on being a starter-kit. This book is an excellent way to get going with Websphere. I was a bit put off by all the flak this book got on the various postings here, but hey - did these guys not notice the "Starter" word on the book cover? Having a bit of experience with servlets and JSPs using Apahce/Tomcat I was eager to plunge into all of these as well as EJB. The book is certainly a good way to do all that, although a separate EJB book could come in handy. My only important reservation is that a new edition MUST be published to update this to WebSphere 3.5 or at least 3.0.
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Summary: Save your money and visit the IBM site.
Review: Most buzz words for e-commerce are contained in this superficial book but no meat. Not useful for learning Websphere so you should go to the IBM site or wait for a decent book to be published. The book's illustrations are inconsistent with the version on the included CD.
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Summary: A not-a-recommended book
Review: The looks and feel make a person feel he's got much more than he intended to get. But the first few chapters itself reveal the lack of proper synchronization between the book and the accompanying CD. Not even 10% of the pics match with the actual screens. Overall, this book is recommended if a person wants to learn websphere for the heck of learning.
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Summary: Book not helpful to deployment
Review: This book covers an obsolete version of Websphere Application Server (WAS). The sample code in the book is NOT included on the CD. Too many details about how to deploy servlets and JSPs with WAS are omitted from the discussion. The book is really aimed at helping programmers write code that could easily be used with almost any Application Server.
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Summary: Good for Java Developers
Review: This book is very good for Java developers and useless for websphere administrators as it is really what it says, a starter kit.It gives you a very good start in working with websphere and almost all the related products, however , it never goes in any detail , I would recommand it to the java developers who are using wephere and related IBM products.
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Summary: I don't think this is the book you are looking for...
Review: This is an outdated book. Disappointing. I bought it at the time since it was like the only book about websphere. Today you have more choices. The book is far behind the current Websphere version - you will find that installing, administering, and even running the websphere test environment on visualage for java are now different. The book is not a "beginners only" book, it has a lot of chapters on enterprise features (CORBA, IBM San Francisco, EJB on Websphere, Connectors, Tivoli enablement modules, etc) but if you are after such advanced features, I'm sure you'll appreciate a more up to date reference. If you will work with Websphere as a *developer*, probably a good starting point for beginners would be to get the IBM redbook: "Servlet and JSP programming with IBM Websphere Studio and Visualage for Java". (This book does not refer to the latest version either, but its contents are not so much version specific.) The printed version can be found at Amazon, and you can get a soft copy from the IBM redbook site. This book has only one chapter specific to websphere application server - about configuring, adminstering, maintaining- but that would be enough to get started. No EJB's, no connectors, only servlets, jsp's, sessions, and the standard edition of websphere.
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Summary: Not so impressed...
Review: This is currently the only WebSphere 3.0 book on the market, but it's still not worth buying if you need to actually implement WebSphere or deploy enterprise Java code. The book is really a HIGH level overview of the product, and goes into greater depth on products that tie into WebSphere than on actually configuring and using WebSphere itself. As an example, it's not until Chapter 40 that the authors discuss the WebSphere Administrative Console, which is where all post-installation WebSphere configuration is done. At least half of the chapter is bulleted list of menu items. (Didn't the authors think we could read these straight off of the console?) Administration tasks are, for the most part, ignored. Chapter 21 - "WebSphere Security Services" - is a 4 page "quicky" on web security in general, and not WebSphere-specific, dispite the title. The lack of more detailed WebSphere security configuration info is an emormous omission: security in WebSphere is disabled by default, but there's not even mention of this fact! The book is useful if you need just an overview of WebSphere, but if you need reference material or technical direction then the product help files and documentation and IBM web site are much better sources of information. There's clearly a market for books to compete with and improve upon this effort.
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Summary: Bad Book on Websphere Studio
Review: This isn't a good book on Websphere Studio at all. Organization is bad, examples and explanations are bad; they don't enter into the pitfalls and difficulties and how to deal with them. Do yourself a favor; steer clear of this book - go to the redbooks instead.
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