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Summary: This book truly is a practical guide
Comment: The subtitle for this book is "A Practical Guide." That subtitle is perfect. This is one of the most immediately useful and practical books I've read in a long time. I began using JBoss at the same time I started reading this book and I appreciated that the book started out with the relatively simple task of getting JBoss installed. However, while the book starts at an introductory level it doesn't stay there. It progresses through more advanced topics such as JMS, JavaMail, JAAS, and Web Services.
The writing is clear and enjoyable throughout. An extended example of a car dealer carries forward throughout the book. This helps the concepts fit together and build upon one another. JBoss at Work is highly informative and, as its subtitle promises, a practical guide. I highly recommend it.
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Summary: excellent book!
Comment: i needed to get up to speed with jboss and web services.
the "A Practical Guide" subtitle made me try the book.
as promised, the book delivered practical info and guidance on working with jboss from the beginning, progressing all the way through web services.
i particularly like learning by doing, and the book is organized around building an application from basics through web services, covering all tiers of MVC.
how the authors progressed the construction of the application from beginning to end was simply awesome.
i highly recommed this book if you like learning by doing, by the end, you will have a good foundation of jboss and a real MVC application utilizing j2ee.
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Summary: THE BOSS!!
Comment: Are you a Java developer who wants to use JBoss on your project? Well, you're in luck! Authors Tom Marrs and Scott Davis, have done an outstanding job of writing a book that will help you implement a full J2EE application and deploy it on JBoss.
Marrs and Davis, begin by looking at how JBoss works. Then, they walk you through the basics of building and deploying a WAR. The authors continue by expanding the JAW application from a simple WAR file into a full-fledged EAR. In addition, the authors next look at the persistence tier. They also show you how to create a Hibernate DAO that drastically simplifies the object-relational mapping that you would do by hand in the JDBC DAO. Then, the authors discuss reasons for and against the use of EJBs. They continue by showing you how to add an MDB to the JAW Motors Application. In addition, the authors next show you how to upgrade the MDB to use the JavaMail API when sending the user an e-mail notification message. They also show you how to secure an application. In the next and final chapter, they show you how to expose a portion of the application as a Web service.
The good thing about this excellent book is that it will help you use the latest features of JBoss 4 and J2EE 1.4, including J2EE-compliant Web Services. Needless to say, this book is really meant to be a brief survey of each subject aimed at the working professional with limited time.
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Summary: Best Book on J2EE I Have Ever Read
Comment: I have read a couple of J2EE books before, some of them are much much thicker than this book but none of them is as helpful as this one. None of them I read before has full and complete working code, either failed in compile time or deploy time. But the source code from this book is fully working. I compiled and deployed the source code charpter by charpter, everything works well! From the code and the building process I learned a lot. So don't just read the book but work on it, build the code, deploy the project, it will pay off. Besides the high quality of the source code, this book also tells you WHY and WHY NOT when it comes to what technology to use based on real-world experience. For example, it use hibernate instead of Entity Bean as persistent layer and prefer not to use Stateful Session Bean due to its scalability issue. These decisions reflect real-world practice. Highly recommended !
BTW, I would love to see the author to come out with a new edition to cover EJB3.0 when the 3.0 spec is finalized(later this year?).
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Summary: Excellent Book
Comment: Just wanted to say that if you are looking for a book on J2EE and/or Jboss then this is the book for you. I have bought several books on J2EE and all of them had issues, such as: Not being clean, examples not working, steps skipped, etc..
This book did everything right. It takes one project and runs with it, slowly adding new technologies and showing you how to refactor it (which is a real-world possibility). It explains the technologies used and includes the 'when' and 'why'.
It also introduces and uses some of the best 3rd party OpenSource tools (Ant/XDoclet/Hibernate) out there to help simplify the build/deployment process, which I loved!
This has been one of the best books I have ever bought, and I own many.
As a bonus when I had a question the Authors replied with an answer in a timely manner which is rare.
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