Enterprise Java Computing : Applications and Architectures (SIGS: Managing Object Technology)

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Summary: Good content, but very code-heavy
Review: It is, no doubt an ideal hands-on reference which deals with the various deployment issues. It has clarified nicely the salient points regarding EJBs. Treatment of RMI and other aspects of distributed computing - the hows and whys of it - is in-depth and comprehensive. I anticipate such simple and superb coverage from the author in books to follow on other related topics also.

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Summary: Good content, but very code-heavy
Review: This book provides some detailed and practical examples of how to use the various java technologies at an enterprise scale, but the presentation is laced with detailed code examples. If you're an experienced java developer and want to learn how to leverage those code skills to enterprise applications, then this is the book for you. If you're looking for an understanding of java technologies and how to deploy them at an enterprise level, this book is probably too detailed. If you can't look at a java class file and understand exactly what's going on, then this probably isn't the book for you.

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Summary: Great for technical architects
Review: Though I have been involved with enterprise level projects for over ten years it is only lately that I have been associated with java based projects. As a technical architect, I am finding this book extremely useful. It discusses various java based architectures from overview to pros and cons to code in a way that I find very useful. I think adding some real life case studies (maybe in its next edition) would make it even more enjoyable.

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Summary: This book is only an introduction.
Review: When this book arrived I thumbed through it and dismissed it as just a rehash of EJB, Servlets, RMI, etc.. However, I decided to have a look at it and was pleased to discover a concise, clear and practical guide to these Java APIs. More than a rehash, this book is a well-paced tour with excellent examples illustrating the concepts. The author provides the why along with the how at an appropriate depth.

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Summary: excellent intro with just enough detail
Review: While for each of the topics covered in this book, one can easily find a book weighing 5 pounds or more, this book weighs less than two pound, and covers virtually all the advanced topics in Java. The author has successfully condensed just enough detailed information in the least number of pages - my criteria for a serious author. He has achieved "simple, but not simpler". I did find a few errors in the code, which can be detected easily with a compiler; but that doesn't degrade the quality of the book in any sense