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Title: IBM(R) WebSphere(R) Application Server Programming by Bassem W. Jamaleddine ISBN: 0-07-222459-2 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Pub. Date: 10 December, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (9 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: This book is about editing text using unix shell commands.
Comment: To start with a good point, this book does contain some very useful information regarding J2EE and Websphere.
Still I find the book almost useless because the information I'd want to see is buried beneath a mountain of platform-specific little shell scripts that are fully spelt out, including tips on where to store and run them.
Not all Websphere developers always work on unix, they don't always like shell scripts, want to know about perl, and so on. Yet at least 70% of the book seems to be covering just that, instead of talkng about Websphere.
I do NOT wish to read about handy unix scripts, but this book even gives shell scripts for changing the words 'true' to 'false' in a text file, to name just one of the deplorable examples from this book. I know how to edit text files thank you, I might even use Notepad on a Microsoft machine yes, but that's not what I bought this book for. The same goes for all the tips about using Lynx and Perl and how to write log files: either obvious, off-topic, or only interesting to a small subculture of certain-platform adepts.
The book is excessively fat and you are likely to miss any bits of useful information in it because, there it goes off again page after page with some platform-specific script that finds certain words in log files, or so.
This book should have been about Websphere, its J2EE extensions and its idiosyncracies. Perhaps tips on deployment using platform-independent means like Ant/XML configurations would also have been an asset.
As it is, I do not recommend to buy this book unless you are attracted to exactly what I'm complaining about. You are better off just fiddling with Websphere yourself, using your favourite or required platform and text-editing strategies.
Rating: 2
Summary: Should have been titled 'How to Admin WebSphere'
Comment: For a book that claims to be a guide to programming applications for WebSphere, this book wastes an awful lot of time explaining how to do administrative tasks like installing WebSphere and DB/2, and how to monitor resource usage with UNIX tools. The book is right around 800 pages long and there's not a single line of Java code in the first 250 or so pages.
In all fairness, the rest of the book does go into considerable detail about developing, testing and debugging J2EE applications on WebSphere, but the author's insistence on writing command-line scripts for every conceivable task (instead of using a GUI like WSAD or Forte) does less to illustrate good programming techniques and principles and more to just show off how handy the author is at writing shell scripts.
My organization uses WSAD to develop software and I purchased this book in hopes of gaining insight into Java programming principles. Unfortunately, the contents of this book are so clouded with platform-specific scripts and non-programming-related material that I've shelved it. I would recommend downloading and printing Redbooks before spending money on this one.
Rating: 4
Summary: A Good book for websphere.
Comment: I brought this book seeing the reviews of many thank full friends and i am impressed.
I have read the first 4 chapters untill now, and I liked the new topics and ideas the author has introduced. They are very usefull in every stage of developing J2EE applications. I am sure any one who read this book wil have a thorough grip of websphere functionality.
Also this book is for versions 3.5 and 4 but the author has mentioned the version 5 specific changes also.
I am giving 4 stars for its detail explanation of websphere install,configuration, programming and fine tuning.
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Title: Professional IBM WebSphere 5.0 Application Server by Tim Francis, Eric Herness, Rob High, Jim Knutson, Kim Rochat, Chris Vignola ISBN: 0764543660 Publisher: Wrox Pub. Date: 01 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $79.99 |
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Title: WebSphere Application Server Bible by Bryon Kataoka, Dave Ramirez, Alan Sit ISBN: 0764548964 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 24 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: WebSphere Studio Application Developer 5.0 by Igor Livshin ISBN: 1590591208 Publisher: APress Pub. Date: 06 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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Title: IBM(R) Websphere(R) Application Server: The Complete Reference by Ron Ben-Natan, Ori Sasson ISBN: 0072223944 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Pub. Date: 10 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $69.99 |
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Title: Building J2EE Applications with IBM WebSphere by Dale R. Nilsson, Louis E. Mauget ISBN: 0471281573 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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