Creating Web Portals with BEA Weblogic

I'm a very senior person drawing a high salary but my skills have become outdated lately. I had to ask myself why my company should pay 90 - 100k for me when they could get the same thing for 40-50k. In short, I'd become 'sloppy'. Although my company continues to pay an annual bonus and has not yet reduced benefits, they are- afterall- running a business here and have to be conservative. So I decided to step up and meet expectations. I recently acquired this book and have found it extremely useful! This is the direction the industry is going. Not very many companies out there are doing this stuff. I would rate myself a beginner with J2EE technologies, but a mere 20 minutes into the book, I was able to follow the thorough, well documented examples and create a fully functional portal. The authors clearly demonstrate it doesn't have to be a rocket ship.I found this book to be a very easy read, clearly, concisely written with an appropriate touch of humor here and there. Most computer books are so dry and boring. The point is- how useful is that if you can't even stay awake reading it? Am I right or am I right? I found the prose here refreshing and resplendent. I strongly recommend this book to anyone who is just starting out with J2EE development, is tired of having to write the same old Java code over and over again and would like to leverage the power and flexibility of the WebLogic Portal 7.0. This book provides thorough, accurate examples of how to master this latest technology! High five to the authors!

From someone who had never programmed using servlets, jsps or web logic, I found this book to be most useful. I was able to build and deploy a fully functional web portal within 10 days start to finish using this book as my guide.

I found the book to be a good overview of the BEA Weblogic Portal. It was easy to follow with good examples that helped me understand it.