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Summary: Good book, but not only about Java Beans though.
Review: Actually I bought this book about two years ago, and at that time Java Beans were gaining popularity as an instance of component model for distributed computing. I was at that time interested in Enterprise Java Beans rather than client side beans. So I did not really use the book that much. However, from the limited reading I did, it seemed like a very well written book for the uninitiated, gave a good view of the Beans, how to create the client side beans etc. However, since then I have moved my field of interest from Java to some thing else, and in the mean time EJB have taken an increasingly important role in the server side component model. So I hope this book is updated or the same authors write a separate book on EJB (more meaningful to do the latter).
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Summary: Good book for JB concepts but examples do have errors!
Review: Comprehensive and thorough on topics covered. However, examples do not work and even with compilation errors. Nonetheless, the concept and JB feature in discussion is there.
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Summary: Good for those who want to start Bean development
Review: Has good introduction, as some reviewers have complained, it does not have many examples,but the theoretical part has been dealt quite extensively.
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Summary: I am disappointed
Review: I was disappointed with this book. Almost 300 pages, half are I found worthless. I have programmed in Swing and JDBC, I wanted to start getting into some Java Bean development. The first part of this book is too much of a review for anyone who has done any Java programming before (a review of the Java Event model). The example code is poor. Definitly a rush job.
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Summary: Events? Adaptors? Applets? What about Beans?
Review: I've been programming for 10 years, and I have 2 bookcases full of ORA and ADW books. I have to say that this is among the most confusing programming books I've seen.I'm in the same position as the guy below who's confused after 3 chapters. The first couple of chapters of this book seem to be a tutorial about event handling, and applet creation. Applets? I have no idea where the author is going with this stuff. It's not that I don't understand the concept of event handling, it's just that this guy does not explain what the heck handlers and listeners have to do with beans. I'm sure they do, somehow... Perhaps if the author provided an an explanation up front about where he's going with the code, I'd stick with the program. Even better, how about an overview of why beans are so great and useful, with some trivial examples. Then progress to the 'real world' stuff. I'm dissapointed with this book because I need to learn about Beans... fast. 3 chapters of working bean code and good examples would have been enough for my instincts to kick in and take me the rest of the way. I don't have the time to search for answers, I thought that a $30.00 investment in an ORA book would have saved me hours of searching. Well, not this time. If you can get the applets from chapters 1 and/or 2 working, please post how in this forum. You'd be doing a lot of folks a favor. Good luck figuring out if you should be compiling *.java.1 or *.java.2 examples. That's enough about this one... Now I have to find a GOOD beans book.
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Summary: Best Java Beans book
Review: is a goodbook for learning JavaBeans and all the other associated topics. It covers JavaBeans, the 1.1event model, properties, persistence, JAR files, BeanBox, introspection, and ActiveX. The writing is very concise and easy to understand. The book contains many useful code examples. This book is not only useful to JavaBeans programmers, but it is also useful to people needing to learn about the other topics covered. I recommend it.
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Summary: Good primer if you want to learn about Java IDEs.
Review: It covers the basics very well and is a good book for an novice to intermediate java programmer. It would form a good foundation for someone that is moving on to an IDE, such as Visual Age or JBuilder. However, plan on getting a seperate book on your IDE of choice. I didn't see the errors that numerous other reviewers mentioned; prehaps O'Rielly cleaned them up? One final comment; a previous reviewer commented that the book was obsolete as the IDE's will write all the code. I disagree. The IDE saves the programmer from doing the work of writing the code, but the programmer still has to understand the concepts. Remember, the IDE only creates what the programmer directs it to.
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Summary: Very disappointed!
Review: The book wastes so much time explaining things that are basic components of Java and doesn't go straight to JavaBeans architecture and what JavaBeans are. Not until chapters 7 and 8 the author starts talking about JavaBeans. If someone wants to get this book then by the second half of the book not all :) I havn't read the second part but I will start now, hopefully, I come out with some benfit of how to develop JavaBeans, not Object Serialization, Events, Jar Files, etc. If you know Java well don't buy this book.
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Summary: writing is good but examples are poor
Review: The writing is pretty good. Reading this book, a Java programmer can understand the Java Beans concepts. But the examples are extremely sloppy: full of errors, some don't compile, some exhibit incompetent Java threads programming concepts. Corrected examples should be put on the Web site. This is the only O'Reilly book I've read that wasn't very good.
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Summary: Confusing book about beans
Review: This is not a good tutorial about Java Beans. In order to explain the Java Bean concept you have to start with the Java Beans specifications of Sun. This would answer question about which things are relevant and why they are relevant in JavaBeans development. Now the the reader almost jumps into a long winded explanation about events and adapters, wondering why this is relevant and what the writer wants to explain. To make matters worse: the example contains errors! Basically, after the first three chapters I was utterly confused. This book also needs a clearer description about the use of Java Beans. In a next update we definitely need a chapter about how JavaBeans are used in Java Server Pages.
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