Pro Apache Beehive

This is not a bad book like some of the reviewers have pointed out. The explanations are simple, easy to understand and overall quite clear. The technology itself is very young, so I can see why there is not more depth to the book - but if you are interested in Beehive, this book is a good place to start.

I am a seasoned WebLogic developer and this book allowed me to get up to speed with Beehive quickly. I was able to get the examples to work - but just had to make sure I use the version of Beehive that this book was written against.

I have been using beehive since it was in alpha, but, I still found some parts of this book informative, enough to where I may have to change one of my applications, to make it better. I did find that there was too much talk about BEAs product, but, for those that may be coming from that framework to beehive, this may be important. Understanding how to use the various development tools, such as Pollinate, is useful, so their coverage of that is reasonable. I do think that if you are looking for an intro to intermediate book on beehive this is a fantastic book.

This is a good book - the chapters are well written, easy to read and have some good content. Overall the examples were easy to follow and very direct. Thisis a must have if you are using Apache Beehive or planning on it.