Pro Apache Beehive (Expert's Voice in Java) [Hardcover]

Kunal Mittal (Author), Srinivas Kanchanavally (Author)

Book Description

Series: Expert's Voice in Java | Publication Date: August 23, 2005

The primary audiences for this book are developers and software architects who are looking to get exposure to the Apache Beehive project, and other related projects. This book covers the Apache Beehive project and projects closely related to this – such as XMLBeans, Pollinate etc. We will cover Page Flows, Controls, JSR 181 Web Services and XMLBeans technologies. The book will also talk about how these technologies are used in WebLogic Workshop, and how other IDE’s are extending support for these technologies (Pollinate project from Eclipse).

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About the Author

Kunal Mittal is a consultant for implementation and strategy for Web services and services-oriented architectures. He has co-authored and contributed to several books on Java, WebLogic and Web services, including Javaserver Faces Kick Start (0-67232-599-3), Sams Teach Yourself Javaserver Pages 2.0 with Apache Tomcat in 24 Hours (0-67232-597-7)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 240 pages
• Publisher: Apress; 1 edition (August 23, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1590595157
• ISBN-13: 978-1590595152
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,220,745 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good intermediate book for beehive, November 22, 2005

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James Black (Tampa, Fl) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pro Apache Beehive (Expert's Voice in Java) (Hardcover)

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.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Useful reference, December 13, 2005

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David O'Meara "CodeRanch Sheriff" (Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pro Apache Beehive (Expert's Voice in Java) (Hardcover)

I was quite impressed with the way this book was presented. While there were some sections that weren't quite right for me, overall the introduction sections and lead up, examples and prose all hit the spot and as such it was an enjoyable book to read.

The book provides a "from the ground and upwards" introduction to Beehive so it does not require any prior knowledge to get started. This isn't too surprising for a framework with a comparatively smaller user base. It also has a very nice introduction to the available Beehive tools so that you can start working efficiently.

While it is not approached as a Beehive marketing exercise (and this was a relief), I was a little confused between the BEA and Beehive offerings in the earlier sections. Maybe it is of worth for people moving to Beehive, but at the point where you're still confused about the starting concepts I found it a bit distracting.

While I wasn't a complete fan of the framework itself, the instructions and examples provided make this a very useful book if you intend to give Apache Beehive a go yourself.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good beginner / intro level book, December 8, 2005

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javaguru "javaguru" (Denver, CO) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pro Apache Beehive (Expert's Voice in Java) (Hardcover)

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.