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Title: Java Data Objects by David Jordan, Craig Russell ISBN: 0-596-00276-9 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 22 April, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.22 (9 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Nightmare reading
Comment: Good books don't get discounted by 60%, because items that sell well charge a premium in our capitalistic culture.
This book is unorganized. Lacks clear and cohesive sentence structure that leads to understanding. It is a step above the Enzio book, but that isn't really saying much. The code examples do run, check errata, and for some reason it is easier to read the code than a paragraph from this author. Go figure?
A true nightmare, and don't be fooled by the gratuitous stars from the author's friends.
Rating: 4
Summary: Simple and elegant
Comment: Java Data Objects is simple and straightforward, and solves a real
problem in an elegant way. Conveniently, this also serves as a
description of this enjoyable book from some of the key members of the
JDO specification team.
If you don't know, JDO is a recently standardized API for transparent
object persistence. A standalone reference implementation is
available, as are quite a few commercial and open-source versions that
piggyback on relational databases and other storage solutions. JDO's
popularity is growing rapidly because of its simplicity, ease of use,
and scalability. "Java Data Objects" is a timely and practical
treatment of this new API.
After a clear and accessible overview, this book first presents JDO in
a tutorial style using a simple but nontrivial example
application. Later chapters fill in the details where needed: for
instance, a whole chapter is dedicated to the difficult topic of
object identity.
The motivations behind JDO's development are explained well, and
comparisons to other object-persistence solutions, including EJB
container-managed persistence, are fair and balanced. One of this
book's few flaws is that despite the authors' important roles on the
standards committee, the rationale behind some of JDO's more puzzling
properties are left unexplained. In particular, JDO requires that only
a small subset of the standard Collections be supported by a JDO
implementation, but this book doesn't explain how this subset was
chosen.
All in all, an excellent tutorial and reference that will have you up
and running with JDO in no time at all.
Rating: 1
Summary: Chapter 1 examples don't run
Comment: Maybe the rest of the book is Ok, or maybe not. I just tried to run the examples of the first chapter and it was impossible for me.
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Title: Java Database Best Practices by George Reese ISBN: 0596005229 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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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: 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: The Java Developer's Guide to Eclipse by Sherry Shavor, Jim D'Anjou, Scott Fairbrother, Dan Kehn, John Kellerman, Pat McCarthy ISBN: 0321159640 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 19 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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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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