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Summary: Shameful!
Review: After browsing this book at a local book store, I'm now convinced that the old saying is true: "those who can't do, teach. those who can't teach, write books" the title of the book is misleading. the examples are extremly poor, the style of writting is bizarre, the index is a joke... the list could go on and on. I wonder how this THING ever got publisned! Alan Williamson and Ceri Moran, shame on both of you!
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Summary: Gimme back my MONEY!
Review: How could Amazon include this thing on its selections! It's an offense to any programmer with the desire to learn.It's total anti-java.It's not simple,It's not portable and it gives the impression that it was written to an elite of javaheads that think they're so cool because of their explosives I.Qs. These people are not writing for people.They're writting for themselves Big time show-offs. Go work for microsoft!
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Summary: A book so bad it is laughable
Review: I got this book from a friend who was going to throw it away. After perusing it, I threw it away. You would learn more about servlets from reading a couple of articles in periodicals! This book's content is so vapid and the author's style is so pretentious it is comical. No doubt, I would have been less amused if I'd wasted my money on it instead of just my time.Instead of stars, I think Amazon.com should offer a bomb icon for a book this bad.
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Summary: A book so bad it is laughable
Review: I thought this book was going to be about servlets and JDBC. The title is completely misleading. Out of 17 chapters there is only 1 chapter on servlets (which mostly just rehashes the sample servlets from Sun), 1 on a JDBC case study, and 4 very basic chapters on JDBC. The other 11 chapters of the book are on the basics of Java, the Internet, using the Java Web Server, and similar introductory subject matter. This seems like one of those books that was published just to make a buck based on a flashy title pertaining to a hot subject area. The only value of this book is as a very basic introduction to JDBC. Other than that the book is completely worthless. I regret having to air such a harsh opinion but I had much higher hopes for a book on this subject matter.
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Summary: This book offers very little to servlet developers.
Review: If you were waiting for a book that offered an in depth treatment of servlets, you'll have to keep waiting. This book on Java Servlets and JDBC offers only 20 pages on Servlets and the content of those pages is pretty thin. Do you really want to see the code for a 'Hello World' or a counter servlet? The author's code is generously shared on a diskette glued to the back cover. For US$50 at least give me the code on CD-ROM! This book reminds me of those overpriced paperback textbooks, written by the instructor, we were compelled to buy in college. I wish JavaSoft would step up to the plate and publish a book that thoroughly covers servlets with useful, annotated examples and maybe even include an appendix of the complete Servlet API classes.
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