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Title: JavaTM Open Source Programming : with XDoclet, JUnit, WebWork, Hibernate by Joseph Walnes, Ara Abrahamian, Mike Cannon-Brookes, Patrick A. Lightbody ISBN: 0-471-46362-0 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 17 November, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Mostly good content, poor writing
Comment: While I'm sure given there will be a real 5 star love-fest here, on serverside.com, javablogs, et al, this book lacks the "quality without a name" I'd expect from the authors.
Example: the grammer in the first sentence of the first chapter is off. Surely a few people read the sentence? Second example, the code on page 24 (the jUnit chapter no less!!) obviously would not compile. There are many other examples of outright errors, and it's too bad some newcomers to Java and/or these tools will be left scratching their heads. Blame this on the editors all you like, but at the end of the day I found it incredibly annoying.
Add to this a Hibernate chapter that is littered with either awkward or poor grammer (was the primary author not an English speaker?), and a sort of smug undertone throughout the book (at one point in the jUnit chapter, they say of the api "Be thankful there's not a lot to learn." Guess what guys? There are plenty of people who are just as smart as you are).
More often than once, this book reminded me of the opensymphony project, some components of which are used in the book: some good ideas, some great, but a lack of attention to detail and unnecessary condescension.
The other problem with the book is the content, although it's a much less significant problem than the poor writing. While the content is pretty good, there's nothing here that's not in the docs for each project already, and Kent Beck's Test Driven Development is a much more lucid explanation of that topic.
As far as petsoar, the app they develop at the end of the book, goes...*yawn*.
I expected more...
Rating: 5
Summary: Two books in one: Reference and Case Study
Comment: There are always a few books that you know are in the works... but aren't due for completion for a long time. Sometimes you are really looking forward to getting them in your hands, and this book was one of these. "Java Open Source Programming" is an interesting title as it could mean so many things. I think this book is two things:
- A look at many great open source technologies that developers should have in their toolboxes such as:
. JUnit
. Mock Objects
. Hibernate
. WebWork
. SiteMesh
. Lucene
. XDoclet
- A chance to watch some good programmers walk through a project with these tools, and see how they all come together.
So you end up getting different things out of the book. It is nice to look at the technology in isolation when you really want to learn that one technology. It is also very helpful to see how these technologies integrate, and how you go about actually building something real (which is after all what we all want to do).
Since so many technologies are covered in the book, the authors have to really think about what they want to get across. If they documented every XML tag, for every possible configuration, you would end up with a tomb of information, and it would be pretty dry reading too. :) I think the authors do a good job of giving you the information that you really want. However, if you are an expert in one of the technologies then you may have wished for more... but for that you will have to wait for a book just on that technology.
I am a big fan (and user) of most of the technologies that are used in this book. Some of them have good documentation via their website, and some of them have NOT so good documentation. It is definitely worth having some high quality docs in one book that I can reference, instead of having to curse at the website.
I have to admit to one moment where I let out a groan. That was when I saw that the sample project would be another PetStore. I think a lot of people are probably tired of the PetStore, but here at TheServerSide that is probably doubly so! :) To be fair to the authors, they do have a section called "Looking at Yet Another PetStore" where they explain their reasons for it, and there are some valid reasons; but I still had to cry a little.
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Title: J2EE Open Source Toolkit : Building an Enterprise Platform with Open Source Tools (Java Open Source Library) by John T. Bell, James Lambros, Stan Ng ISBN: 0471444359 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 15 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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Title: JUnit in Action by Vincent Massol, Ted Husted ISBN: 1930110995 Publisher: Manning Publications Company Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Expert One-on-One J2EE Design and Development by Rod Johnson ISBN: 0764543857 Publisher: Wrox Pub. Date: 23 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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Title: Eclipse in Action: A Guide for the Java Developer by David Gallardo, Ed Burnette, Robert McGovern ISBN: 1930110960 Publisher: Manning Publications Company Pub. Date: 15 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $44.95 |
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Title: Jakarta Pitfalls : Time-Saving Solutions for Struts, Ant, JUnit, and Cactus (Java Open Source Library) by Bill Dudney, Jonathan Lehr ISBN: 0471449156 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 14 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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