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Title: Java Network Programming by Elliotte Rusty Harold ISBN: 1-56592-870-9 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 01 August, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.73 (30 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Network Programming Book with Few Network Topics...
Comment: Java Network Programming is a great topic and very challenging to write about. In the past decade, Client Server and Networking where the most popular topics in the industry.
Initially, Java was not an Internet/Web language oriented. Later versions, the language migrated into a more network oriented and became the language of choice among financial institutions, and others, because of its high productivity capabilities (mainly, shorter development curve.)
Here are a few points that I'd like to make concerning this book:
1.The authors took on themselves a very large assignment, rather than reducing the scope of the book, so they could deal efficiently with the content and represent it in more technical details and depth, just as O'Reilly publication does so often. The variety of topics discussed in the book could be topics for books themselves, such as Web Concepts, Threads, Java I/O...
2.A few topics are not directly affiliated with Networking, such as Threads, Java Mail API, etc. I was surprised to find the "HTML in Swing" chapter, which is a total shift from the Networking Layer to the Presentation Layer.
3.The book is missing important and advanced topics in Networking, such as IIOP, Distributed Objects, EJB and maybe CORBA. I was surprised to find a chapter about RMI - an old form of distributed objects, which was replaced by IIOP and EJB in recent years. RMI was combined with IIOP (RMI/IIOP) because its poor performance. Why would anyone want to study an old topic?
4.This book is lacking of a conceptual discussion about Networking Layers in general, to help users understand why with Java, Network Programming could be a piece of cake... Conceptually speaking, indeed, with Java it's a much easier task.
5.The bright spot here are the samples that are almost in a "copy and paste" condition. They are easy to understand and implement.
Rating: 5
Summary: Up to date, complete and thorough
Comment: This book covers all the important things to know about network programming in JDK1.3 and Java2. The content and quality is how you expect it from O'Reilly books: thorough, complete, practical with clear examples, and with a good theoretic foundation.
The first three chapters provide theory about basic network and web concept and explains what you can do with Java networking. A lo of very interesting things, and that motivated me to read further. Chapter 4 and 5 are about Java I/O and threads and might be redundant for Java programmers, who already know basic Java stuff. But those chapters are necessary to understand the examples in all the following chapters. Chapter 6-19 deal with all the various networking topics and Java classes that deal with URL's, Internet addresses, sockets and datagrams, protocol and content handlers, RMI and JavaMail. The organization of these last chapters is topical; in most of the times you can understand a chapter without reading the previous ones, just pick out the one that you are interested in. (Interesting chapter about parsing HTML with JEditorPane, Swing has some unexpected applications!)
I think the author gave a complete and thorough coverage of all the necessary topics. The author does not stray from its topics, is sometimes a bit dry in his explanations, and gives some important side information, e.g. about security aspects of the different Java versions in regards to RMI.
Take in mind that this is the second edition from August 2000, updated to Java2, with some 200 or more extra pages, and we can use this book for the next couple of years.
Rating: 4
Summary: An Excellent Choice
Comment: I read this book and really enjoyed it. It is easy to read, and has lots of useful code. I like all books written by this author. If you like this book, then you should try his book on JAVA and XML. That book is well written. I would recommend this networking book to anyone who wants to learn JAVA and Networking. Some LAN experience or a networking course will help you. Buy this book -- it is worth an investment!!!
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Title: Java Threads, Second Edition by Scott Oaks, Henry Wong ISBN: 1565924185 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 01 January, 1999 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Java RMI by William Grosso ISBN: 1565924525 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 15 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Java I/O (O'Reilly Java) by Elliotte Rusty Harold ISBN: 1565924851 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 01 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: TCP/IP Sockets in Java: Practical Guide for Programmers by Kenneth L. Calvert, Michael J. Donahoo ISBN: 1558606858 Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Pub. Date: 15 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Enterprise JavaBeans (3rd Edition) by Richard Monson-Haefel ISBN: 0596002262 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 15 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $44.95 |
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