Rating:  - The best value for a book: EXPERT EXPERIENCE!!
I have a lot of books and it is the best book I had never. This book is not theorical, no, it offers lots of experience, tips and definitions that can convert you to a true j2EE Expert. Work with bigger J2EE applications without doubts because this book will help you to carry out them.
Rating: - By far the best J2EE book
It's not an average J2EE book . Rod discussed a lot of framework design issues. He also criticized some J2EE flaws and told us how to avoid them. You will learn a LOT of design techniques from this book. Every J2EE developers should have this book ! The words and phases in this book is easy to understand , even for me , a Taiwanese , can comprehend easily.
Rating:  - Great book - but Rod's own framework?
This is a great book - by far the best J2EE design book I have read to date. Approximately the first half of the book contains not just the HOW, but the WHY of J2EE design - this is exactly what I was after, and this book certainly provides it.
My only (somewhat minor) dissapoinment with the book was the fact that a lot of the examples were not built around existing frameworks, but were based around Rod's own frameworks. For example, instead of using Struts, Rod uses his own MVC web framework. Even though Rod's frameworks are probably *better* than some that are out there - it would have been nice to read "portable" examples that can be plugged into existing frameworks.
Having said that, I still think the book is an excellent buy, and a must for any serious J2EE developer/designer/architect that wants to understand WHY you should architect your J2EE system in a particular way - not just HOW.
Rating: - Not you average J2EE book
I would rank this book with a select few of the many Java books I have read over the last 5 years. Rod does a unique job of presenting an opiniated view of many J2EE technologies (which is a welcome view to say the least). Unlike many other J2EE books, this book does not get bogged down in specification details or go through the boring details that every java developer (with even very little experience) already knows. It's very nice to have a book detailing someone's real world experience with J2EE development while building applications that are not just for reference. Thanks Rod.
Rating: - Wrox Expert one-on-one J2EE Design and Development:Excelent
I appreciated the clean and clear style of this book. Important points are highlighted within the shaded boxes of text found throughout the book. It is apparent that Mr. Johnson has spent many hours working through problems with the existing J2EE architectures and he explains what he feels is worthwhile and what is not. I appreciate that this is accomplished without a lot of elaboration.
Mr. Johnson presents a practical approach to J2EE design with an in depth analysis of the Web-Tier Model-View-Controller design. I found the reference information helpful to assist me in preparing to grasp the dense subject matter presented. A review of MVC from the GOF was helpful as well as a review of Core J2EE Patterns with attention to the Service to Worker and DAO patterns.
Since Mr. Johnson has worked in the development of a MVC famework, the framework he has written is presented. The com.interface21 framework is presented with its infrastructure as he walks through the various design alternatives all the while guiding the reader away from design pit-falls while maintaining a clean delineation of responsibilities within the MVC framework.
Some of the diagrams are just too small to use without a magnifying glass but the diagrams are crisp with magnification.
This book is a must for the framework designer, or pragmatic developer that must implement J2EE architecture.
-Ralph Burroughs
January 12, 2003
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