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Summary: Good quick paced JBoss starter
Comment: If you are just now considering using JBoss then this is definitely the book for you. It covers the installation, configuration, and deployment of a J2EE application in a very concise and useful format. It presents the unique and useful features of JBoss in a simple format. If you are looking for a reference book that covers every little detail of JBoss then keep looking.
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Summary: Good for all
Comment: Well, I would say, it is pretty good. You feel like finishing this book off so quickly but at the same time imbibed enough information on JBoss. Very good reference material to keep beside always for both beginners and experience people too.
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Summary: Solid Guide for Getting Started with JBoss and J2EE
Comment: The book is a solid guide for getting started with JBoss. However, I would recommend this book to those who are looking to get started with J2EE development.
Obviously, you can't discuss JBoss without J2EE. The authors take you through a sample application from start to finish. This includes a wonderful overview of J2EE.
After this book, you should be able to delve into more complex topics related to J2EE and other application servers. I really wished this book was around before I started hacking J2EE on WebLogic, I would have chosen JBoss to begin my learning.
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Summary: Fantastic into to how to use JBoss
Comment: I love the format of these notebooks. Quick and good overview of what you need to know about several topics.
On to the specifics of this book. You get a great outline of what you can do with JBoss including some good introductory info on Java EE in general. Some will find the lack of detail irritating but its great for a quick overview of how the stuff is done 'in the real world'. For example in Chapter 3 aobut creating a 'real application' the topic of XDoclet is discussed but not in great detail (Norman Richards has a huge 350+ page book on XDoclet) leaving the (sometimes ardious) task of getting XDoclet working with ant as an exercise to the reader.
The authors do a great job of writing in an informal conversational way without being campy.
Specific Content:
1) Installing JBoss - everything you want to know about getting JBoss up and running. Any deficencies here are made up for in Chapter 9 on rolling out jboss.
2) Deploying Apps - the stuff you need to know about how to deploy, talks about auto-deploy and how to do exploded deployments.
3) Creating the complete app - I liked this chapter but I susspect that newbies will find the XDoclet stuff confusing. XDoclet is great and works like a champ but many people will wonder what is going on if they don't have previous XDoclet expierence.
4) Connecting to a real db - good stuff, esp liked the bit on monitoring. Lots of folks new to Java EE don't get that whole monitoring thing and this book talks about it a lot (in most chapters).
5) Secutiry - all you need to know to get started with secutring in JBoss, using LDAP & hashed passwords are covered which a lot of preliminary discussions seem to leave out.
6) Logging - welcome to the world of Log4J which should be really simple but somehow required lots of pages in lots of books to document. This chapter has what you need to know about to get logs going with JBoss. You are using remote debugging from your IDE though to debug your apps though aren't you?
7) Configuring Persistence - good quick over view to CMP and getting the CMP engine to manage your schema.
8) Managing and Monitoring JBoss - a whole chapter on how to manage JBoss. Lots of good info here.
9) Rolling out JBoss - all the stuff you might forget to do in turning on a production version of JBoss. All about security and closing the holes that you might not think to close (like the class download service).
Over all a great book and worth the $.
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Summary: Great Overview
Comment: This workbook touches on many different aspects of the JBoss application server. It is not for the advanced user, but for someone brand new to JBoss it's a great help in getting up and running quickly.
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