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Summary: Already out of Date
Review: I browsed through this book at Borders and liked it a lot.
It appeared to be clearly written, fairly comprehensive, and nicely layed out.
I was mostly interested in the sections on web services with JAX-RPC.After taking it home and spending a few hours with it, I took it back to Borders for a refund. The problem is, although it is copyrighted 2003, it already seems to be out of date. The JAX-RPC code walk-through depends on Sun's xrpcc tool. That tool is now deprecated, and no longer included in the Java Web Services Developers' Pack (JWSDP). Java is up to version 1.3 now, but this book is based on version 1.0. O' Reilly's WEB SERVICES IN A NUTSHELL is written to a more recent version of the JWSDP (version 1.1, I think). However it is a much different sort of book, more of a reference than a "kickstart" tutorial. So I hope Chowdhury and Choudhary update their book, at least with some postings on the publisher's site (because I could not fiind an "update" or "errata" reference there).
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Summary: java at its best...full of quality beans
Review: One of the best books available yet on Java, a standard popularised by Scott McNeally's Sun Microsystems. The book obviously is not written by natural writers, but the honesty and the knowledge of subject is pretty obvious.
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