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Title: Creating Web Portals with BEA WebLogic by Howard Block, Rob Castle, David Hritz ISBN: 1-59059-069-4 Publisher: APress Pub. Date: 05 March, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.43 (7 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Piece Of Costly Crap!
Comment: Totally Useless. I will return this book in Borders within less than 12 hours of buying. Positively. Wonder why it took three authors to write this crap. Half an author is more than enough.
Rating: 2
Summary: Only if you are a Beginner
Comment: This book is good for someone "Brand New" to portal development. I like how the information is condensed and in some cases presented. This book provides a good explanation of portal concepts and terminology which if you are new to Weblogic Portal, is extremely helpful. Also, I like the sections on Java and Ant. Ant is an essential build tool in any J2EE development and can be very helpful in Weblogic Portal Development.
However, this book is poorly organized, the writing is weak and the examples are terrible.
The writing in this book is very unprofessional and way to casual for a technical publication. This book was written as though the author was having a conversation with a co-worker or a friend. This makes the book extremely difficult to follow in places.
Also, do not try the examples. This is the first book that I have ever said please do not try the examples. They are poorly planned and organized. Also, the instructions are pathetic at best. There is one section where all of the instructions refer to other parts of the book. Your frustration level will go off the charts, but I can say that if you work through these examples you will understand the concepts and materials much better. I honestly think the book could have been much better if the examples were more helpful. For example, you should have built a portal from start to finish that included much of the functionality that was referenced throughout the Portal.
Additionally, the visuals do not follow the book very closely. More than one section the images do not correspond to the material and it is extremely confusing.
If you have looked at the BEA documentation I would not recommend you buy this book. The BEA documentation covers all of these subjects and terms in much greater detail and they are free. But don't take my word go to BEA's edocs website and compare.
Rating: 2
Summary: This book is pretty bad
Comment: This book is pretty horrible, but since it is the only one out there dedicated to weblogic portal I gave it 2 stars instead of just 1.
Things wrong:
This book isn't organized well at all
Numerous errors that should have easily been caught (screen shots that are the same, things that say: create this domain named "1" now start domain "6"... and you are like, wtf?)
Too many screenshots (I'd say about half the book is screen shots)
Just plain bad. Things that really make me mad are things like this: In the best practices section they state that you should always use the WL taglibs (obviously), and thats all it says. In other words, they tell you to do something that is very important but don't give you any more info about it or even provide a url to a weblogic website on taglibs.
Only get this book if you are tired of staring at docs on your monitor.
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