Rating:  - So good, it's now a required textbook...
My J2EE students are enjoying it as well. I look forward to reading more from Mr. Kurniawan.
Rating: - From someone who loathes computers
Given the option, I would prefer to live during the late 1800s (with today's medical technology of course) when the republic was mature and very free. People weren't bombarded with information and noise back then and the world was still big. But I digress.
I just got a new job in this miserable business and I had to come up to speed quickly on this stuff. I love the tone and pace of this book. I am definitely not the type of person who would read anything related to computers in their spare time. But I actually plan on reading this book from cover to cover. Each chapter builds on knowledge gained from the previous chapter at a very comfortable pace. This tends to build your curiosity about the next subject. After two days I no longer have a fear of the unknown. Excellent book.
Rating: - The best Java book I have ever read
This books explains every concept from beginning to end. The examples are clear and consice. I felt like I had strong grasp of each concept at the end of each chapter. For me, the book is "paced" perfectly.
So many technical books either gloss over material or make the (rediculous) assumption that you already understand the material you are reading! The tech press has a long way to go. It should take some lessons from this book.
I previously purchased the Sun J2EE Tutorial. The section on Enterprise beans was very good, but the section on Servlets and JSPs was beyond horrible. It was one that was written as if I already knew how to program Servlets and JSPs (which makes no sense since the book is a TUTORIAL). They only spent 3 (short) chapters on Servelts and JSP. I couldn't figure out what the problem was - and then I realized different authors wrote the two sections. Beware!
I also purchase another book (the exact name escapes me) but it involved building web applications with SQL and Tomcat. It was pretty good but I ran into some major problems with the example (it was one of those that continue through the entire book - so if it doesn't work on page 20, you're up a creek). Anyway - there was no errata on the web site even though the book said to "check the erratta for errors"!! so I returned it.
Anyway...This book is outstanding. Buy it if you want to learn Servlets and JSP, etc.
Rating: - Outstanding book for first time servlet/JSP developers
This book is outstanding because it describes exactly how servlets and JSPs work. No information is held back, and no assumptions are made regarding previous servlet/JSP knowledge. This is why I highly recommend this book to new servlet/JSP developers. (I have tried others, and this one has been the best investment.)
There are quite a few typos in the book, which can be frustrating when trying to get your first servlets to run. However, the book is so clear and thorough in its explanations that it allows the reader to easily find and correct these errors.
This is THE book to buy if you are developing J2EE web applications.
Rating:  - Good, but lacking
I found this book to be well written and the information contained in it is useful and accurate. However, this is lacking in some critical areas. I did find this to be a good supplement to two other good books. These are J2EE, The Complete Reference and Building Web Services with Java: Making Sense of XML, SOAP, WSDL and UDDI by Graham. The three of these are probably all you need if you want to develop web services based Java applications.
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