Building Java Enterprise Systems with J2ee [With CDROM]

I have found that this huge book has provided the best coverage of J2EE technology for my money yet. The authors provide descriptions of the technology that is straight to the point. This is definately a book for high end professionals who design and implement with these technologies. The book covers everything that you would probably want to know about how to understand and use the technologies. Applied discussion and examples with Weblogic and Oracle gives it a special edge. I even found the topics of risk and assurance and use of UML really interesting and further highlighting the fact that this is a book for the hard core software professional.

The J2EE technologies are very wide ranging and can be quite overwhelming at times. As a software engineer and CTO of a software company performing J2EE services work, I have found this book to be a very valuable asset in deepening my understanding of all the pieces making up the J2EE and related technology set.The authors have a very thorough understanding of the material they present, and the text is well backed up with many, many UML diagrams and other supporting technical illustrations. I feel this book is an excellent starting point for determining the applicability of J2EE for your company's projects and products. In the software industry we often get very focused in small technology pockets with little time for exploring other alternatives. This book will help you pop out of your hole, and take a look around at what is available in the industry, and how to use it appropriately.

I bought this book along with a few other books on EJB and JSP and it has stood out as my favorite so far. It has also been involving. First of all it is the only book that really covers J2EE and gives EJB examples deployed with J2EE (and Web Logic). This book has xml deployment to 2 servers which I think is really good. It also had information that wasnt even in books specialised on EJB and JSP and Servlets. There is information on J2EE servlet security and transaction and alot of EJB advanced stuff (security and transactions, JMS-EJB, JavaMail-EJB). I jumped to this information first, but there is JDBC 2 and CORBA and RMI server information as well.In general, there is alot of info and examples and a JSP to EJB ecommerce example. While I cannot use all of the information in here, there are things talked about being used by other people in my group (LDAP, alot of security, etc). I only had a complaint when my Web Logic license expired but found a new license only after going to the books web site and being redirected to Web Logic for a new license.Finally I have a book that doesnt try to sell me the glories of a technology or vendor and explains how to get my work done.

This book provides a one stop read for J2EE APIs like JMS, JSP, Servlets, JNDI and RMI-IIOP. I found that the authors have spent a great deal of time in putting out well tested examples that explains nitty-gritties of J2EE specification. This book has provided me with lot of expertise for writing mission critical applications. I would highly recommend this book to any serious JAVA developer who wants to get his feet wet with juicy code.

I found that this is the only book which covers all J2EE APIs at great length and with real world working examples. I am impressed by the way the authors explained the various aspects of J2EE APIs Servlets, JSP, JMS, EJB, JNDI, RMI-IIOP and deploying in two different Application Servers (J2EE RI and Weblogic 5.1). The chapters are put together in a very well organized manner. At the end of the book, there is a working version of online Store using all the J2EE technologies, which I found very useful. The material is clear and straight forward. The book covers the interests ranging from novice to expert Java Developer. The books has lot of pages like other java books, the difference is that the book does not waste any page to show api. Overall this book is a very good book for a J2EE Developer.