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Summary: Good beginner book
Comment: Good book. However it is mainly aimed at the beginner crowed. Seasoned J2EE developers will find little use for the examples and material. It does however introduce a beginner to implementing and deploying a end-to-end based J2EE application in Jboss and other Application servers for that matter. For the price it is not bad; on the shelf in the office for those learning.
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Summary: Practical, relevant and well written
Comment: This book is a well organized introduction to getting started with JBoss and several other key Java technologies. So many books delve into a single topic but do so far beyond the point that normal people need. This one gets you started in several. It's easy to read, practical--download the examples and follow along, and right to the point. I use it for teaching too, as it's highly effective
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Summary: Awesome book
Comment: A must book for a developer. No junk, all necesary examples for a complete application. Great work!
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Summary: Tunnelvision
Comment: Using this book is like driving without peripheral vision - you can't take the slightest turn off the single path chosen by the authors. Sure, this book will walk you through making a stateless session bean and deploying it on JBoss. But what if you want to make a client? What if you want to use the Eclipse IDE provided by JBoss? Suddenly, you're left on your own. This book may be helpful to someone making a first pass through J2EE, but if you want to use JBoss for any practical purpose, this book is practically worthless.
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Summary: Outstanding Text
Comment: As an employee of a company that develops web based applications, but not a software engineer in that company, Tom Marrs and Scott Davis's text does a terrific job in putting the disparate pieces that make up a J2EE application together. Their approach of incrementally adding the requisite technologies from each tier, as they carry through a single example, provides remarkable clarity to the discussions of each piece. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in the "nuts and bolts" of a J2EE application. My only caveat is to make sure you read the README.txt file when you download the source code. If you've downloaded a JBoss version later than 4.0.1 (current is 4.0.4) then the code examples beginning in Chapter 5 won't work. The needed change, discussed in the README file, is simple, clearly indicated and works throughout the rest of the book.
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