Websphere Version 4 Application Development Handbook

This book covers every step of the Web application development lifecycle, from requirements analysis, through analysis and design, implementation, and testing and deployment. The coverage in each chapter is not exhaustive about the development step, nor is it an introduction to it. Rather, it gives a reminder of what the step is meant to be, and explains how to apply the existing IBM and open-source tools to fulfill the step in the application development process. The content is objective-driven, with code snippets, step-by-step instructions, and screen captures. Each chapter gives a list of complementary references for the reader to complete his knowledge of the topic. Besides IBM's WebSphere 4 Application Server, the llist of tools and products covered in this book includes DB2, Rational Rose, Visual Age, Struts, and Ant. This book is good at what it does, and one should not expect more. This book is not a tutorial about Web application development, it only helps to learn about WebSphere 4 and a bit about the tools that can be used to get a WebSphere 3 application out. To learn about how to write J2EE webapps in general, you should definitely turn toward a dedicated tutorial. It came to me to get a copy of this book when I was starting as a software developer on a WebSphere 4 project. This book has been a key inspiration to me, providing me with the opportunity to complete my development skills with other book recommendations. Not only as a handbook, it has been also useful to me as a "reading dispatcher". I definitely want to keep this book with me on future WebSphere 4 projects. If you have made sure this is the book you need, you will be happy with it.

J2EE architect and designer should read this book. Eventhough the title says ...Websphere 4.0..., this book talks about Ant, Struts, the environment setup and lot more, in simple steps and good example snippets