BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 Kick Start shows you how to make J2EE programming easier, providing the fastest path to productivity with BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1. The authors show how Workshop leverages the power of BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1, including WebLogic Server, WebLogic Portal, and WebLogic Integration.
With BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 Kick Start, you'll learn to build J2EE applications and see how each concept works within a real-world online casino application developed over the course of the book. You'll see how Workshop 8.1 facilitates every step of the development process, from design to deployment. The authors' expert insights and tips, along with dozens of practical examples that you can put to use immediately, will have you up and running at full speed in nothing flat.
The included CD-ROM contains the Developer's Edition of BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1 (including WebLogic Workshop 8.1) and all the sample code and examples, with a complete version of the casino application developed over the course of the book. In addition you can view the entire book in searchable electronic form.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - I agree with other reviewers, very little content here
This book has to be one of the most poorly laid out and shallow programming books I have ever read. I ran into a problem with a DB driver trying to work an example in chapter 6. It wasn't until chapter 8 that they warn you about the error I was hitting. This book contains virtually no examples. I would expect a book like this to have much more examples to work.
Rating: - Only good as a door stop
Except for alot of talks around the subject, this book does not contain any useful advice.
For a person who know a thing or two about software development, I expected a kick start book to provice a useful step by step example of how to use Workshop to write application, instead this book tells you nothing, but general talk about the concept of workshop.
Don't buy this book, it is a waste of money
Rating: - Pass this one up...BEA's documentation is better
A thin book with very little practical value. You can consider this a "Cliff Note" version of Weblogic Workshop: it offers a nice summary devoid of any useful detail. For example, Weblogic's most powerful framework feature, Java Custom Control development, is mentioned in a mere one and a half pages.
Programmers buy technical books in order to understand behind the scenes MECHANISMS and to learn full cycle IMPLEMENTATION procedures. You are better off with the BEA Weblogic documentation. ... Read More
Rating: - A Good Start, but Incomplete
The book says that this book is for Beginner to Intermediate". I know some about J2EE, mostly Apache, but very little about WebLogic.
I found that lack of knowledge frustrating in getting some of the examples to run correctly. They may work correctly, but it was beyond my capabilities to get them to run.
An introductory chapter on WebLogic Server would have been very helpful. If you don't know WLS, you may want to get a book on that before tackling Workshop with this book. Read More
Rating: - Very shallow
DON'T BUY THIS BOOK!
The book contains nothing, you won't find in the Workshop Help. Furthermore it's poorly written, and I suspect the authors don't know what they are talking about. The Workshop Help is a lot easier to understand, and contains everything this book contains, plus a LOT more.
The fact that this is the only book on the WL Workshop is a shame - as the IDE is really cool. Especially Workshop will speed up your J2EE-development speed SIGNIFICANTLY.
- A Good Start, but Incomplete
