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Title: Building J2EE Applications with IBM WebSphere by Dale R. Nilsson, Louis E. Mauget ISBN: 0-471-28157-3 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: June, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (16 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Good book on WSAD
Comment: I really like this book because it not only covers WSAD but it also shows practical tips for developing web applications. It makes for a good mixture of how to use WSAD and many different examples from JSPs to message driven beans. I don't agree with the reviews that call it light on WSAD, only the first chapter covering J2EE concepts does not have anything on WSAD.
Rating: 4
Summary: Great 1st book on WSAD
Comment: This was a great book to use in getting started with WSAD. The step-by-step tutorials help get one through the often complex steps of creating applications in WSAD, and at the same time introduce good design principles.
The negative reviewers seem to imply that you will have only one book on WebSphere on your bookshelf--which isn't realistic. This book won't be the only one you buy for WebSphere development, but it is a very good book to become familiar with the tool and build enough proficiency to make good use of more "reference oriented" texts.
Rating: 2
Summary: Examples are incomplete from chapter to chapter and worse
Comment: The author vaguely addresses much of the subject matter. He definitely tells you which buttons to click on to complete a specific type of exercise but, makes little effort to tell you what goes on behind the scenes and why your putting components where they are (doing this would be signficant improvement, rather than assuming the reader has this knowledge).
I had a problem with this book because each example in most of the chapters built on previous chapters, which I didn't need or want to do.
As a result the source code was incomplete for each chapter (no WAR files etc.) For example, Getting the code to run for chapter 10 required following every step in 3 or 4 other chapters that were not relevent to creating a JSP. To make matters worse I had to go back and figure out where these steps were in what previous chapters.
The book takes on too much (or needs another 500 pages) and as a result misses explanations for critical concepts and operational procedures.
A simple complete unique PROJECT example zip for each chapter would be a huge improvement, at least then we could figure it out ourselves.
A message to the Author: Go checkout "Professional IBM Websphere 5.0 Application Server". This book goes the extra distance that it takes to make the process of learning WSAD as easy as possible. Yep, it costs twice as much as your book and takes twice as long to read (it has the extra 300+ pages) but, you know the old saying. You get what you pay for. By the way I have no connection with the folks that wrote that book (their IBMers), never met 'em. I'm an Oracle bigot.
I apologize for the drubbing, but it's my honest opinion. I know the old saying about opinions...
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Title: WebSphere Studio Application Developer 5.0 by Igor Livshin ISBN: 1590591208 Publisher: APress Pub. Date: 01 January, 1970 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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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: Core J2EE Patterns: Best Practices and Design Strategies, Second Edition by Deepak Alur, Dan Malks, John Crupi ISBN: 0131422464 Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Pub. Date: 10 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: IBM(R) WebSphere(R) Application Server Programming by Bassem W. Jamaleddine ISBN: 0072224592 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Pub. Date: 10 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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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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