Java EE 5 Development using GlassFish Application Server

by David Heffelfinger

Java EE 5 Development using GlassFish Application Server

408 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2007

Reviews

[John Chilton · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book fails on many levels. I think at times it wants to be a reference book. For instance, it has long lists of vaguely described XML tags like you would find in a reference book. It covers way too much content to a suitable reference book however, it cannot dig into anything deep enough to be useful as a reference. As a tutorial on using GlasshFish in practice, I think it is probably fairly poor. It repeatedly refers the reader to the GlassFish documentation. I don't think I need to a buy a book to tell me to read the documentation. Ultimately though, frequently updated web documentation is much more appropriate for tutorials on specific software products anyways. Finally, the thing a better book could have succeeded at is being a survey of Java EE 5 technologies. This book describes all of the various technologies, but it does not spend anytime discussing the strengths and weaknesses of the technologies or describing their place in larger enterprise systems. A better book would have answered questions like - "If I opt to use JSF over straight JSPs or Struts, what are the pitfalls going to be?" or "Its great to know how to use message queues, but what are they used for and why should I care?" This is what the book should have done, this is where a good author and a good developer could really have something to say. This book is a wasted opportunity. I would still like to find a better book that covers this material. Let me know if you have found one.

[Herdi Naufal · Rating 3 out of 5]

Buku soal Java Enterprise yang saya baca pertama kali, bagi yang lebih nyaman untuk Learning by Doing, buku ini akan mengajarkan kalian step by step bagaimana cara menggunakan Java EE dari awal.