Java Programming With Jbuilder (Java Series)

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Summary: Save your money and wait for a better publication
Review: Having eagerly awaited the release of Borland's JBuilder Professional IDE, I rushed down to Foyles book shop in London to see what was available to helpme get started relatively easily.Steve Holzner's book was the only JBuilder publicationavailable. It had the traditional fancy (useless) appletexamples and promised notes on database connectivity. I couldn't find any references to databaseconnectivity anywhere in the book nor on the suppliedCD. Nice one Steve!This book is lightweight and for anyone looking todevelop serious commercial database applications - this book won't help you. I have used a previous book by this author (Visual C++ Programming) and must say that it was not fantastic but a much better effort.I can only conclude that either Steve Holzner or hispublisher have rushed this book to try and be first onthe bookshelf without providing much substance.Save your money and wait for a better forthcomingpublication.Chas Levere, Senior Developer, Comtext UK

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Summary: False advertising...no database information
Review: I wish I had read other reviews before ordering this book. The cover falsely states "Includes database connectivity". It does not! There does not appear to be anything relating to JDBC, ODBC, database, or connectivity (which was my chief interest in ordering it). Furthermore many pages are wasted in repeating the same (largely autogenerated) code.

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Summary: False advertising...no database information
Review: If you ignore the minor errors, such as having used for his book a different version of JBuilder than is now shipping, and if you further ignore the superficial coverage of UI building to which this text is limited, you still run straight up against a fat lie. The cover of the book conspicuously promises that it "Includes database connectivity". This may be true of JBuilder, but it is wholly and irredeemably untrue of Mr Holzner's book. In fact, the word, "database", does not even appear once in the entire book. Since many of Borland's JBuilder customers will have opted for this product precisely because of its database connectivity features, they would be well advised not to expect much of anything from this book.

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Summary: If you need a paper weight, this book was published 4 u !!
Review: Software has different stages of life, such as alpha testing, beta, etc. This book should have never made it out of alpha testing. JBuilder does not look the same as the pictures in the book, which are based on an old beta version. The cover: a blantant mistake, both in the misprint and the fact that it isn't there at all. What I am talking about is database information. Not only should the book cover database connectivity, it says it does on the cover, yet it doesn't cover it

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Summary: Avoid this book!
Review: To say I'm disappointed by this book is an understatement. It's obvious the publisher and author were using JBuilder beta code when writing this book. Few of the examples work without some rewriting, and code that does work uses Java 1.0x code and techniques. The example figures in the book are different from the release version of Jbuilder and several of the functions used in examples have been deprecated and replaced with new functions.