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Expert One-on-One J2EE Design and Development (Programmer to Programmer)

Format: Paperback
Author: Rod Johnson
ReleaseDate: 23 October, 2002
Publisher: Wrox
Rating:

Excellent J2EE Book for Developers & Architects


Covers several frameworks, patterns, and discusses alternatives for the presentation, web, and data tiers. Excellent book to help you choose the right technology for your project.

Interesting ideas about the use (or overuse) of EJBs.

Good Content, Poor Editing
I went to some Sun training and got a nice overview of what J2EE is. I am new to J2EE. Now comes the question, how to use J2EE? There are so many decisions to be made. How do I make them? This book seems to do a very nice job of helping with that question.

However, I am disappointed in the editing of this book. I have read too many sentences that had glaring mistakes, enough that this is a distraction while reading, but don't let that stop you from buying this book.

Buy It. Read It. Repeat.
Flat out, this is the best book (and really the only one) that describes the trade-offs involved in implementing enterprise class j2ee solutions. The sad thing is that there isn't really another book that compares with Expert One-On-One J2EE Design and Development other than the newer second edition.

The strength of Rod's approach is its practicality. Rod doesn't feel pressured to use all of J2EE all of the time. He rightly discussed the strengths and weaknesses of the specs and reasonable tradeoffs in architecture, design, and implementation. This is a real world book on architecture and implementation that reflects Rod's own approach and biases to looking at building scalable enterprise systems.