Professional Java 2 Enterprise Edition with Bea Web Logic Server

by Peter Zadrozny and Francisco Gomez

Business objects are basically encapsulated business processes that deal with some input data and mediate the appropriate business response. This book shows how suited Java is to the creation of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1861002998
• ISBN13: 9781861002990
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: Wrox Press
• Length: 520 Pages
• Weight: 1.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Mis-Titled, but otherwise excellent

There seems to be quite a bit of variance in the opinions of this book, so let me see if I can clear things up. The term "professional" in the title may mislead those of you who are already developing with J2EE and want to enhance your skills or gain some knowledge of Weblogic Server. If this is the case, I would suggest the wealth of excellent documentation on the BEA site instead of this book.I am a "professional" Java developer who is migrating into the world of enterprise applications. If you are in my situation, this book is a MUST HAVE. I was able to blow through it in a weekend and gained a solid foundation while doing so. Plus, I was able to do it with Weblogic (most other books use Tomcat or some other inferior product). In short, if you are experienced with J2EE, this book is not for you. However, if you are an advanced Java developer who has not yet written enterprise web apps, get this book before you start!

An excellent hands on book

This is an excellent book for people that learn by doing. It is a hands on tour of the J2EE standards with the added bonus of a whole section on bechmarking and a free tool to generate load. The section on JMS is superb. It is a beginners book though, so don't expect any detailed insights on WebLogic.

Very good book

Be clear to all of you, this is not a book about WebLogic "secrets", I don't see any claims by the authors on that. It is a very well written book about developing with WebLogic, and J2EE.Tha authors have done something that I have been wishing for a long time, and that is to write a book (any language) that takes the reader throughout a full development cycle. They even go through the testing cycle, that is wonderful.I have been working with WebLogic for a year now, we just deployed our first application that uses WebLogic. I know that I am learning with this book, there are many things "advanced" WebLogic users, who have not had the advantage of having a book written for WebLogic, have struggled to find information through NewsGroups and other places. This book will help find answers much quicker.As you are using WebLogic, if your app, or prototypes are not working, don't blame it on WebLogic, it has worked very well for us, as well as for other teams in the company. You WILL benefit from this book.Conclution: Even if you think you know everything about WebLogic, I assure you that you will learn something from this book. If you are starting with WebLogic, then it is a must-have.

A must have for WebLogic developers

Last week I downloaded the book's source code and got it to work within 15 minutes. This morning I finally had a chance to read it. Great stuff! It is true to the title by focusing on things that are WebLogic-specific (like it or not, it is the market leader by a wide margin in the app servers space). This book is an excellent companion to the other new book by Wrox, Professional Java Server J2EE Edition.Having experience with servlets, JSP's and JDBC, and eager to take a plunge into EJB but don't know how? Skeptical about the performance ramifications of moving to EJB's? Wondering how to migrate business logic from PL/SQL stored procedures to session beans? Unsure about whether to use session beans or entity beans to access data? Trying to dedicde which database tables to model as entity beans? Thinking to maximize the performance of entity beans? You find answers to all the above questions and more in this book. Every chapter is heavy-duty, and there is hardly any fluff in it. The whole book evolves around an integrated e-commerce (Pizzas2Go) application, which grew from a straight forward servlets/JSP/JDBC app into a full-blown JSP/EJB/JMS/WAP app, with clear explanation of the design patterns and migration path. This is very helpful to IT shops who are at various stages of adopting the J2EE standards. The final chapters on performance testing in a stand-alone and clustered server environment are enormously informative.Having read all EJB related titles published in the last 12 to 15 months, I waste no time here in recommending this book to anyone currently doing or thinking of doing EJB work using WebLogic.