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Title: Building Java Enterprise Applications, Vol. 1: Architecture (O'Reilly Java) by Brett McLaughlin ISBN: 0-596-00123-1 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: March, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.4 (10 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Too basic
Comment: I really wanted to like this book, but I simply could not. I enjoyed Brett's Java & XML quite a bit, and my hopes for Java Enterprise Applications were quite high. The idea behind the series, to show how everything in J2EE fits together, sounded really appealing.
Alas, the book did not live up to my expectations. I am an experienced Java developer currently studying for the Sun Certified Enterprise Architect certification. For me, the contents of the book were on the verge of being trivial. I learned a little about LDAP, but the rest of the book was very much fluff, and not very filling.
Even more annoyingly, the book contains some subtle errors and bad practices, like Double-Checked Locking on page 135 ...pooling of potentially broken connections on page 139, arguments from "security through obscurity" on page 151, and suppressed exceptions on page 155. J2EE contains enough pitfalls for practitioners even without experts teaching bad practices.
This book has its good sides, too. It contains much source code, making it a fast read. The amount of source code really highlights some of the very negative aspects of EJBs (especially Entity beans), but the author did give any suggestions for improvements.
If you have just encountered J2EE and EJBs, this book might be good for you. I would rather recommend reading Monson-Haefel on EJBs and the JMS tutorial trail on java.sun.com.
Rating: 5
Summary: Now you can make the leap.
Comment: This was a timely find - just the book I required for an accelerated introduction to j2ee and related enterprise-oriented technologies. With five years of JAVA programming under my belt, responsible for the java-based technologies supporting our in-house web server farm and now on the doorstep of a j2ee consulting endeavor, I'm finding this book to be invaluable.
Definitely a comprehendable guide, clearly illustrating the implementation of a j2ee project from concept thru implementation. Probably the best in my collection thus far (which includes the latest on JSP and EJB from Wrox, the Core and Advanced from PH and the Sun j2ee platform books from Addison Wesley). Will be on the lookout for the second volume in the series!
Rating: 4
Summary: Great overview
Comment: This book will not teach you all the nitty gritty of J2EE. It will, however, explain when to use what part of the APIs. It goes through a lot of the different parts of J2EE.
For me it was a good overview. I started coding J2EE by going in deep from the start. If this book would've been available when I was learning the technology, my path to understanding it all would've been shorter.
I especially liked the way the author builds the different elements together to construct a system. It shows how they mix.
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Title: Enterprise JavaBeans (3rd Edition) by Richard Monson-Haefel ISBN: 0596002262 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 15 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $44.95 |
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Title: Java Enterprise Best Practices by The O'Reilly Java Authors, Robert Eckstein ISBN: 0596003846 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: December, 2002 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Programming Jakarta Struts by Chuck Cavaness ISBN: 0596003285 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 13 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Java Extreme Programming Cookbook by Eric M. Burke, Brian M. Coyner ISBN: 0596003870 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 01 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Java Web Services by David A. Chappell, Tyler Jewell ISBN: 0596002696 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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