Rating:  - Great Book
Very complete book, just What I need, the delivery was very fast. Thank you!!
Rating:  - So many mistakes
If you want a general introduction to J2EE, this book is ok, I suppose. Definitely not for Advanced users, as it claims. The high amount of authers shows through with inconsistant writing and often hard to understand sections. It also appears the authors didn't do much more then rewrite the Sun J2EE documentation - which is free to download.
In addition, the sheer amount of errors in both the examples and in just general formatting of the text would make me embarassed to have my name attached to it if I were one of the many authors. Things like using wrong filenames, wrong file extensions, mislabelled listings, uncompilable code, using the last line of a code example listing as the heading for the following paragrap (so the following paragraph has a heading like "", pre-production comments left in the final text, ... this is all in the first 200 pages! Definitely not a student-friendly book for someone attempting to learn the material by doing the examples.
You'll get the general idea and layout of J2EE, same as the Sun documentation, and not much else from this book.
Rating: - Lacking in detail to an extreme
I've gotten as far as chapter 7 and there is next to no usable information. In less than 40 pages it attempts to cover servlets, filters, and event listeners. I regret spending the money on this book.
Rating: - Waste
I read every page of this book. It was a complete waste of my time and money. I'm asking for a refund. There was no detail that helped me. While I'm not a new testament kind of guy, I expected more from a "Bible".
Rating: - Didn't meet expectations
Isn't this book supposed to be advanced reading level? It reads like a child's book with words like "screw" and "buzzword-friendly." Plus, there's so much info to cover in J2EE that it only explains the minimum needed to get started. If you plan on reading this book, don't expect to gain substantial knowledge from it. This book is only good for one thing: to establish an introduction. The real deal is to read the specifications which are advanced reading level and written by technical writers appointed by Sun Microsystems.
|
