Mastering Bea Weblogic Server: Best Practices for Building and Deploying J2EE Applications

click here for more details, find new or used items	Gregory Nyberg, Robert Patrick, Paul Bauerschmidt, Jeff McDaniel, Raja Mukherjee Our price £33.99 (£37.50) New from £18.19 Used from £1.31 Pages: 768 (Paperback) ISBN: 047128128X Pub: John Wiley & Sons Pub date: 2003-09-12 Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 312619

Reader Reviews:

Excellent book full of Best Practice (1/1 people found this helpful)

Online documentation is full of options and possibilities, but this book simply states what settings and configuration are best from experience. The other reviewer says 700 pages is too long, but, having read most of it at some time or another, I now frequently dip in to the book for guidance.

I did not do the examples, but reading the examples is sufficient to understand what the author is getting over.

I strongly reccomend _Reading_ this book to anyone using weblogic server. I will definitely buy the WLS 9 version of this book when it comes out.

700 pages is both too much and too little (2/2 people found this helpful)

With a recommendation from RMH and written by high powered people in BEA I had high hopes for this book.

Surprisingly, even at over 700 pages it is not self contained, making frequent references to download additional material or claiming that things are out of scope. Given the copious quantity of BEA documentation that is available online I was looking for something that would complement this by providing a framework/roadmap in which to fit this detail, to clearly separate the wood from the trees. If the nuts and bolts of WLS really cannot be explained more independently and concisely than this then it is simply too complex. It contains a huge amount of largely unstructured and arbitrary detail, much of which probably has a fairly limited shelf life. It fails, for me at least, to be either a useful conceptual framework or a convenient detailed reference.

It's disconcerting to see so much unnecessary and unchallenged complication - this is almost always a sign that something is wrong. It's about time our industry started producing books that consume 200-300 pages rather than 700+. Less really is more in this respect but that takes significant effort on the part of the writer rather than, as seems to be the case nowadays, expecting the reader to filter out the wheat from the chaff. However, it was published in 2003 and, with the increasing take up of technologies like JDO, I wonder if it has ceased to have the relevance it might once have had.

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