Amazon.co.uk: Java Open Source Programming: With XDoclet, JUnit, WebWork, Hibernate (Java Open Source Library): Joe Walnes, Ara Abrahamian, Mike Cannon-Brookes, Patrick A. Lightbody: Books

Paperback: 480 pages
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (28 Nov 2003)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0471463620
ISBN-13: 978-0471463627
Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 18.8 x 2.8 cm
Average Customer Review: (1 customer review)
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 518,003 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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Book Description

*First book to show J2EE developers how to leverage best-of-breed open-source tools from OpenSymphony, Apache, and other groups to build a complete J2EE application

*Authors follow the well-known Pet Store application that Sun Microsystems uses to demonstrate features of J2EE, creating completely original code

*Walks the reader through each phase of the development process, explaining how to best use the appropriate open source tool for each stage of development

*Author team includes the key developers of XDoclet, WebWork, and OpenSymphony

*Companion Web site provides code, plus links to sites for downloading the open source tools covered in the book

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This is the first book to show J2EE developers how to leverage best-of-breed open-source tools from OpenSymphony, Apache, and other groups to build a complete J2EE application. Authors follow the well-known Pet Store application that Sun Microsystems uses to demonstrate features of J2EE, creating completely original code. It walks the reader through each phase of the development process, explaining how to best use the appropriate open source tool for each stage of development. Author team includes the key developers of XDoclet, WebWork, and OpenSymphony. Companion Web site provides code, plus links to sites for downloading the open source tools covered in the book.

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In this chapter, we briefly discuss the things to come-primarily what the tools we'll employ when building PetSoar as well as the development-process philosophies we'll covering. Read the first page

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A missed opportunity, 3 April 2004

By	Thomas Paul (Plainview, NY USA) - See all my reviews

What a good book this might have been. It isn't an awful book but it could have been so much better. The premise of the book is to take the "Pet Store" and improve it by using several open source tools. The first part of the book discusses each of the tools with brief explanations and sample code. The second part takes us through the development process showing how to use the tools that were discussed earlier.

The good parts of the book are mostly in the second half. The authors apply each of the tools, explain test-driven development, demonstrate how and when to refactor code, etc. The integration of the different tools is made naturally so that it doesn't seem that the authors are trying to squeeze a tool in just to demonstrate it. The bad parts: this book desperately needs editing, both technical and for grammar. It is very distracting to see so much improper English usage including run on sentences, sentence fragments, and noun-verb disagreement. On the technical side, there are so many errors in the code that I doubt very much will actually compile, let alone run. Typical errors include methods declaring to return a value and not returning anything, closing files before they are used, and using variables that are not declared.

If you are interested in the technologies discussed and can debug the code in the book, there is a good amount of value. But it could have been so much better. Thomas Paul - JavaRanch

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