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Java Enterprise in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference (Nutshell Handbook)

Format: Paperback
Author: David Flanagan
ReleaseDate: September, 1999
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Java developers will want this as an essential desk reference
0 Annotations, JavaServer Faces, and the Hibernate API. Jim Farley and William Crawford's Java Enterprise In A Nutshell: A Practical Guide packs in tutorials on a number of enterprise Java tools, offering new material covering Xdoclet and Java 5. Also included are open source testing and build tools, tips on writing SOAP-based web services, J2EE security issues and operations, and much more. Serious Java developers will want this as an essential desk reference.

Great reference for an immense topic
I don't think it matters how big of a nutshell you have, it would be a truly impossible task. Java Enterprise in a Nutshell tries to do the impossible - fit Enterprise Java into a nutshell. Farley and Crawford, though, do a nice job shoe-horning as much Enterprise Java as they can into an 800+ page book. They go over many topics including all the J2EE standards like EJBs and JSPs to open source tools like JUnit, Cactus, and Hibernate. The book goes into enough detail to get more than just the gist of the subjects, but not so much detail to overwhelm someone looking for information on a particular topic. The book also has relevant code sections for the various topics outlining how that technology might be used. Overall, a compact, clear, well written reference.

Great Reference
Covered topics in the book include:

JavaServlets
Java Server Pages (JSP)
JUnit, Cactus, Ant
JavaBeans, JavaMail, Java Message Service (JMS)
JavaServer Faces (JSF) and Struts

+ too many more to list here!!

All in all, this is a great book that looks at the Java solution as a whole. 'Java Enterprise in a Nutshell' by Jim Farley is a great reference book to examine the entire suite of Java enterprise tools and APIs. If you want to quickly ramp up your knowledge on getting your Java setup running immediately, pick up a copy of this book.

***** HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.