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Java EE Development with Eclipse
Java EE Development with Eclipse
426 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2012
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March 8, 2014
This book is focused to teach you to develop Java EE applications over the awesome open source Eclipse IDE.
It doesn't cover the full catalogue of technologies involved with Java EE, only the main and more used, to avoid that the book become a bible and you can get an introduction quite fast and start your adventure with this matured technology.
It will teach you about the persisting layer based in EJB, parametrise your code and bind them with XML to allows you to generate scaffolder code fast, easy and automatic, providing the capability to build PDF reports to your application, creating web interface using JFS so you would be able to build rich web interfaces using the same approaches used to build desktop interfaces and empower them using AJAX to provide to the user a web interface which they couldn't miss the features offered by desktop applications and after it shift you to improve all of this, adding web services and RESTful API and use the very power the awesome Spring framework provide.
If you want to get into Java EE applications using a very powerful and complete IDE Eclipse, and stat to tinker with it, then just get and start to read it on PacktPub
NOTE: Although in the present time I am not a Java EE developer, so I am working the most of the time with dynamic languages and working in a very fast development cycles, of course with Agile development, due I work in tech start-up environment, I always spend some of my spare time reading about different technologies to be updated and be able to choose the technology that fulfils to use and business cases that I receive or I may receive in the close future. Therefore, this review is from a person who has read this book to grow his knowledge and update his old Java EE (because I developed in it some years ago), because Java EE is very mature technology which have a lot of well-tested libraries, allowing you to build a robust web applications for large companies and organisations.
It doesn't cover the full catalogue of technologies involved with Java EE, only the main and more used, to avoid that the book become a bible and you can get an introduction quite fast and start your adventure with this matured technology.
It will teach you about the persisting layer based in EJB, parametrise your code and bind them with XML to allows you to generate scaffolder code fast, easy and automatic, providing the capability to build PDF reports to your application, creating web interface using JFS so you would be able to build rich web interfaces using the same approaches used to build desktop interfaces and empower them using AJAX to provide to the user a web interface which they couldn't miss the features offered by desktop applications and after it shift you to improve all of this, adding web services and RESTful API and use the very power the awesome Spring framework provide.
If you want to get into Java EE applications using a very powerful and complete IDE Eclipse, and stat to tinker with it, then just get and start to read it on PacktPub
NOTE: Although in the present time I am not a Java EE developer, so I am working the most of the time with dynamic languages and working in a very fast development cycles, of course with Agile development, due I work in tech start-up environment, I always spend some of my spare time reading about different technologies to be updated and be able to choose the technology that fulfils to use and business cases that I receive or I may receive in the close future. Therefore, this review is from a person who has read this book to grow his knowledge and update his old Java EE (because I developed in it some years ago), because Java EE is very mature technology which have a lot of well-tested libraries, allowing you to build a robust web applications for large companies and organisations.
March 17, 2013
As Java EE Development spans many technologies with entire books devoted to each chapter’s topic, even at almost 400 pages there is obviously a lot that is not in this book.
This is not a survey book and doesn’t lend itself to read from cover to cover, but rather one would use it by finding which chapter covers what you need to quickly get in and get out like a cookbook.
The main strength of this book is that each chapter takes a technology and gives a concise description of how to configure a development environment, how to create a strawman app, and then how to deploy and run an application with that technology on Weblogic and Oracle.
What I liked about this book:
- Great “recipes” and screenshots illustrating what needs to be done to get a technology set up in Eclipse and quickly use it productively
- Easily applicable to other web servers, not just Oracle Weblogic server. I’m familiar with JBoss and I thought all these examples could easily be adapted to run on JBoss.
Last chapter is a very ambitious implementation of Spring and gives a good overview of the different technologies
What I didn’t like:
- The naming conventions made it hard to follow at times, for example “column1” is used instead of a clearer “catalogId”
- Although concise examples are necessary in a cookbook-style book, these examples are going to be used and extended by possibly inexperienced developers so I was disappointed to find the examples not following any secure coding industry best practices. Full OWASP compliance is overkill, but the JDBC code throughout the book is wide open for SQL Injection attacks that could have been trivially prevented by adding a PreparedStatement in a few lines of code.
Conclusion:
This book is not an overview of the different technologies used, so each chapter had little background on the technology focused on in the chapter and wouldn’t be useful as a survey of the JavaEE technologies used. Some however might consider this a positive as there is not a lot of expository material to detract from implementation details.
This would be a great book for busy developers who don’t want to spend a lot of time searching the Internet to find out the right way to set a technology up in Eclipse for Weblogic or other web servers. Even though the MSRP is a little pricey at $50, it is only $5 per chapter, which is a good bargain compared with the time one would spend finding a good example of a technology, figuring out what wizards “implement” it in Eclipse, and then learning what needs to be set up on Weblogic.
Disclosure: Packt provided the copy of the book that was reviewed. This review was also posted to Amazon.
This is not a survey book and doesn’t lend itself to read from cover to cover, but rather one would use it by finding which chapter covers what you need to quickly get in and get out like a cookbook.
The main strength of this book is that each chapter takes a technology and gives a concise description of how to configure a development environment, how to create a strawman app, and then how to deploy and run an application with that technology on Weblogic and Oracle.
What I liked about this book:
- Great “recipes” and screenshots illustrating what needs to be done to get a technology set up in Eclipse and quickly use it productively
- Easily applicable to other web servers, not just Oracle Weblogic server. I’m familiar with JBoss and I thought all these examples could easily be adapted to run on JBoss.
Last chapter is a very ambitious implementation of Spring and gives a good overview of the different technologies
What I didn’t like:
- The naming conventions made it hard to follow at times, for example “column1” is used instead of a clearer “catalogId”
- Although concise examples are necessary in a cookbook-style book, these examples are going to be used and extended by possibly inexperienced developers so I was disappointed to find the examples not following any secure coding industry best practices. Full OWASP compliance is overkill, but the JDBC code throughout the book is wide open for SQL Injection attacks that could have been trivially prevented by adding a PreparedStatement in a few lines of code.
Conclusion:
This book is not an overview of the different technologies used, so each chapter had little background on the technology focused on in the chapter and wouldn’t be useful as a survey of the JavaEE technologies used. Some however might consider this a positive as there is not a lot of expository material to detract from implementation details.
This would be a great book for busy developers who don’t want to spend a lot of time searching the Internet to find out the right way to set a technology up in Eclipse for Weblogic or other web servers. Even though the MSRP is a little pricey at $50, it is only $5 per chapter, which is a good bargain compared with the time one would spend finding a good example of a technology, figuring out what wizards “implement” it in Eclipse, and then learning what needs to be set up on Weblogic.
Disclosure: Packt provided the copy of the book that was reviewed. This review was also posted to Amazon.
July 4, 2016
#Cross posted from my blog
Java EE Development with Eclipse by Deepak Vohra is the book that one would like to buy and follow if one wants Tutorial/Workshop kind of environment to learn developing Java EE applications using Eclipse IDE and Oracle Weblogic Server. If you want to gain in-depth theoretical knowledge about any of the Java EE technologies, then certainly this is not the book for you but if you want to gain practical knoweldge and answers to questions like *"How To?"* then this book can surely help.
There are ten chapters covering EJBs and Java Persisitence API (JPA), JAXB, JasperReports, Java Server Faces (JSF), Facelets, Apache Trinidad, AJAX, JAX-WS Web Services, RESTful Web Services and Spring. Each chapter details out the steps along with screenshots from development to deployment of applications. It is like you are in a class and following/copying what the teacher is doing on blackboard and therefore you need to be extra careful that you do not merely copy and paste but also understand and then follow the steps given.
My first opinion about the book is that it spoon-feeds you and I hate it. So, I had to figure out the way that it does not do so. I would recommend that you follow the advice and do not merely copy paste, try to figure out why and what the author is trying to do and then if you understand the thing do it yourself. Otherwise even after reading through all the chapters, you will not remember what you have to do and will never understand why it was done in the first place.
My rating will be 3/5.
*P.S.:- I received this book as a gift from the publisher in return of the review on my blog(s) and other sites.*
Java EE Development with Eclipse by Deepak Vohra is the book that one would like to buy and follow if one wants Tutorial/Workshop kind of environment to learn developing Java EE applications using Eclipse IDE and Oracle Weblogic Server. If you want to gain in-depth theoretical knowledge about any of the Java EE technologies, then certainly this is not the book for you but if you want to gain practical knoweldge and answers to questions like *"How To?"* then this book can surely help.
There are ten chapters covering EJBs and Java Persisitence API (JPA), JAXB, JasperReports, Java Server Faces (JSF), Facelets, Apache Trinidad, AJAX, JAX-WS Web Services, RESTful Web Services and Spring. Each chapter details out the steps along with screenshots from development to deployment of applications. It is like you are in a class and following/copying what the teacher is doing on blackboard and therefore you need to be extra careful that you do not merely copy and paste but also understand and then follow the steps given.
My first opinion about the book is that it spoon-feeds you and I hate it. So, I had to figure out the way that it does not do so. I would recommend that you follow the advice and do not merely copy paste, try to figure out why and what the author is trying to do and then if you understand the thing do it yourself. Otherwise even after reading through all the chapters, you will not remember what you have to do and will never understand why it was done in the first place.
My rating will be 3/5.
*P.S.:- I received this book as a gift from the publisher in return of the review on my blog(s) and other sites.*
January 6, 2014
Good book - but then I was a technical reviewer
April 4, 2016
Nice and easy, a several unknown approaches and tools were picked by me, making Eclipse more handy in development.
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