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Suitable for intermediate to advanced Java programmers, Enterprise Java Programming with IBM WebSphere is an up-to-the-minute guide to creating server software using the latest Java standards. It's a perfect one-volume resource for getting on board with some of the best ideas on the Java platform for building enterprise software.

While most books focus on Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) and related standards without looking at particular Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) tools, this title zeros in on IBM's popular VisualAge and WebSphere products for building and deploying Java software. The book does a good job of explaining the higher-level principles when it comes to Java standards like servlets, JSPs and EJBs. The more abstract material on the best ways to combine these front-end and back-end technologies is anchored by chapters that show how to use the real IBM tools in action.

Sections on modelling EJBs, for example, show you how to build real EJBs in VisualAge (including some fine material on associations that will let you model even complex database schemas with Java components). Another plus is material on the specifics of deploying beans on the WebSphere platform, including tips on editing XML descriptor data. With today's J2EE standards, the genius is in the details. This book strikes a good balance between theory and practical advice. It gives you some of Sun's current best practices, like the Model-View-Controller (MVC). With fast-moving and useful tutorials on servlet JSP and EJB standards, the authors also discuss layering of components on the server to achieve the separation of presentation and business logic, a must for today's Java Web applications. Patterns and other strategies for making sure you separate the tiers are also introduced.

By anchoring a state-of-the-art tour of Java with samples using real IBM tools, this title provides what Java developers need to use JSPs and EJBs effectively in real projects to solve real business problems. It's quite simply one of the best available tutorials for learning how to build successful Web applications in Java. --Richard Dragan --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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great for WSAD with J2EE 29 April 2005

By W. G. Edwards

Format:Hardcover

If you are familiar with Java and want to learn how WSAD works together with concrete non trivial examples, then this is the book for you.

As a developer, I wanted to get books with no "gaps". i.e I dont want to read the book and go through an example and think "fine but you just went from step A to C, where is step B?". The code comes on a CD, and one chapter can be accessed via the authors website.

In my previous job, I had to pick up WSAD on the fly and did not fully understand how it fits together. This book explains in detail how WSAD works, and you work your way from a trivial web application, to struts, mappers, session and entity beans, messaging, and web services.

IMHO it also has a good balance between code, and description of why one should develop in the given direction .e.g from mappers to EJB.

My only criticisms are;
1) Chapter14 was missing from the code examples, but I found it later on the authors website.
2) Appendix A contains really important information that should be at the front of the book as a must read.

Conclusion: The book is Hardback and represents excellent value for money. If you want to know WSAD and J2EE buy it.

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Invaluable resource for enterprise apps architects 5 May 2003

By Dara Dehghan

Format:Paperback

Although the most of this book is a software manual, still it contains more good advice on principals of design of enterprise applications than I've seen in many entire volumes specially written for the subject.

A confusing and patchy book 20 Mar 2001

By real@pml.ac.uk

A brought this book over three months ago and I have to say im non the wiser. It is aimed more at the programmer with experience and not as easy as they say it is. The scripts are long and not to the point, im afraid i was extremily dissapointed and have learnt more from web resources.