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

click here for more details, find new or used items	Rod Johnson Our price £28.59 (£43.99) New from £22.44 Used from £19.57 Pages: 768 (Paperback) ISBN: 0764543857 Pub: John Wiley & Sons Pub date: 2002-10-23 Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 81763

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An excellent Book For all levels.. (0/0 people found this helpful)

This book is great if you developing J2EE applications. It illustrates through the use of a sample application why you should use certain components and when you should use them. With this book you can learn to develop J2EE apps the right way. Also it serves as an excellent reference.

Excellent book on how to develop J2EE apps... (0/0 people found this helpful)

I found the book interesting, it illustrates how and when you should use a particular technology. It also points how a j2EE app should be structured for effective use and implmentation. I agree it is slightly outdated, but nothing major that cannot be rectified with some research. All in all I highly reccommend reading this book atleast once, im keeping mine for reference and use it all the time.

Boosts your skills to new hights (3/4 people found this helpful)

This is a great book. It helps to bring the techniques available in J2EE into a comprehensive overview and offers heuristics for maintainable programs that scale and perform well. I have immensely enjoyed reading it and feel enriched by it. I can recommend it to the J2EE programmer who wants to know how J2EE development should be done correctly.

Essential for anyone using J2EE (7/7 people found this helpful)

Probably the best book I have ever read on this subject. The biggest disadvantage of using J2EE is the many different ways problems can be solved, and its best to get it right first time around before it leads to further complications. This book gives advice on which direction to turn and leads you to start asking questions on your current development. The only book I have ever felt compelled to read from cover to cover, so that any bad judgements in J2EE development can be avoided.

A definite must-have (34/34 people found this helpful)

Rod Johnson's book covers the world of J2EE best practices in an amazingly exhaustive, informative and pragmatic way. From coding standards, idioms, through a fair criticism of entity beans, unit testing, design decisions, persistence, caching, EJBs, model-2 presentation tier, views, validation techniques, to performance, the reader takes a trip to the wonderland of project development reality, constraints, risk and again, best practices. Each chapter of the book brings its share of added value. This is not a book, this is truly a knowledge base.

The tone is rather unpassionate, miles away from the usual J2EE orthodoxy, very to-the-point. Rod Johnson takes the debate away from pure technology (this is not a J2EE book à la Ed Roman) and back to deliverables, and puts the focus on real issues, from which the J2EE community has often drifted away with unrealistic problems like database or application server portability. Technologies, proprietary and open source are evaluated, compared and recommended. The MVC chapter notably is impressive in that respect.

The book is full of documented answers to questions that architects and designers certainly have come across in the past without being sure their answers were correct. One thing is certain, many companies specialised in writing non-public reports would sell this book chapter by chapter thousands of dollars. J2EE architects/designers that I know who read the book have reacted quite unanimously: it is fantastic! Definitely the only book you'll never throw away from your J2EE collection.

Last but not least, Rod Johnson has put together a framework that covers most J2EE needs: a wonderful JDBC library that saves the developer time and bugs, a bean factory, a thin MVC library that makes it possible to plug basically any existing presentation framework (Struts, WebWork, Velocity, Maverick, XMLC, WebMacro, iText, ...), a logging library, EJB and JMS helper classes, non-exhaustive list. This is all to be soon formally open-sourced. I bet in a year from now his framework will be widespread.

The only criticism I could find (there had to be one) is that it lacks a methodology section. Rod Johnson is fond of XP but the reality of projects often imposes things like RUP. This is the missing chapter. Maybe for another edition.

The book is addressed to J2EE architects and designers, but some sections are also good for management, and for programmers to a lesser extent. Everyone will learn a lot. Reading this book is really a humbling experience.

If you're currently hesitating between J2EE books, I strongly recommend this one. I have read many books on the topic and this one by far is the best. It's so good that I wrote my first review about it! :)

Yann

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