Yawo Kpelevi said
This book was as described. It gives you the fundamentals of servelet, JSP and how all this blend with JAVA code
M. Panuganti said
"patience"
This was my first book on WSAD. I liked the step by step instructions.
It teaches how to use WSAD to build web apps. However, there are too many bugs in the step by step instructions. Like others mentioned you can not skip chapters that are not of importance to you as the project is build over most of the chapters.
If you can find oher books, better not to buy this one.
Overall this book teaches WSAD. however, you need lot of patience to understand the buggy instrctions.
Michael A. Foster said
The author vaguely addresses much of the subject matter. He definitely tells you which buttons to click on to complete a specific type of exercise but, makes little effort to tell you what goes on behind the scenes and why your putting components where they are (doing this would be signficant improvement, rather than assuming the reader has this knowledge).
I had a problem with this book because each example in most of the chapters built on previous chapters, which I didn't need or want to do.
As a result the source code was incomplete for each chapter (no WAR files etc.) For example, Getting the code to run for chapter 10 required following every step in 3 or 4 other chapters that were not relevent to creating a JSP. To make matters worse I had to go back and figure out where these steps were in what previous chapters.
The book takes on too much (or needs another 500 pages) and as a result misses explanations for critical concepts and operational procedures.
A simple complete unique PROJECT example zip for each chapter would be a huge improvement, at least then we could figure it out ourselves.
A message to the Author: Go checkout "Professional IBM Websphere 5.0 Application Server". This book goes the extra distance that it takes to make the process of learning WSAD as easy as possible. Yep, it costs twice as much as your book and takes twice as long to read (it has the extra 300+ pages) but, you know the old saying. You get what you pay for. By the way I have no connection with the folks that wrote that book (their IBMers), never met 'em. I'm an Oracle bigot.
I apologize for the drubbing, but it's my honest opinion. I know the old saying about opinions...
Anonymous said
I used this to get a JSP up an running on WSAD pretty easily. Not a lot of nitty gritty info on EJBs (like 1:N relationships), but a good read nonetheless.
Anonymous said
This is buggy book. there are a lot of errors. I only read part of it but found a lot errors on Page: 26, 70, 89, 158, 157, 159, 167, ....
The explanation is not clear, make you confused to very simple things. At the very beginning, Page 26, the author wants you to import file from CD-ROM, but where is CD? The code on the web site are not compressed to one file, It is very hard do download them, I don't understand why the author upload his sample code that way. The author don't forget teach you config the WSAD and make it hide deprecated API, because code of the book used a lot of deprecated API. On the chapter of JUnit, the explanation is not clear, and I wonder if author know how to use WSAD's wizard with JUnit to generate test code automatically, that is what IDE should do.
I saw some readers review, the author think that readers blaspheme his book?
I would suggest the author read the book review of "Mastering Enterprise JavaBeans" by Ed Roman, and then read the book. You will understand how accurate the reader's review is.
Next time I buy a book, I must read reader's review first.
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