Customer Reviews

BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 Kick Start: Simplifying Java Web Applications and J2EE

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A thin book with very little practical value. You can consider this a "Cliff Note" version of Weblogic Workshop: it offers a nice summary devoid of any useful detail. For example, Weblogic's most powerful framework feature, Java Custom Control development, is mentioned in a mere one and a half pages.

Programmers buy technical books in order to understand behind the scenes MECHANISMS and to learn full cycle IMPLEMENTATION procedures. You are better off with the BEA Weblogic documentation. In fact, it is getting all too common among writers to simply paraphrase or summarize existing FREE documentation in their books, publish them and slap a ridiculous price tag on them. Where's the value-added content? The technical insight? Hmmm....not in this book!

If this book was offered for free, I would still hesitate to pay the shipping cost.

The book says that this book is for Beginner to Intermediate". I know some about J2EE, mostly Apache, but very little about WebLogic.

I found that lack of knowledge frustrating in getting some of the examples to run correctly. They may work correctly, but it was beyond my capabilities to get them to run.

An introductory chapter on WebLogic Server would have been very helpful. If you don't know WLS, you may want to get a book on that before tackling Workshop with this book.

I wouldn't go so far as to say "Don't Buy This Book", but just understand what it is and what it isn't.

DON'T BUY THIS BOOK!

The book contains nothing, you won't find in the Workshop Help. Furthermore it's poorly written, and I suspect the authors don't know what they are talking about. The Workshop Help is a lot easier to understand, and contains everything this book contains, plus a LOT more.

The fact that this is the only book on the WL Workshop is a shame - as the IDE is really cool. Especially Workshop will speed up your J2EE-development speed SIGNIFICANTLY.

Conclusion: Really great topic covered by really lousy writers.

Except for alot of talks around the subject, this book does not contain any useful advice.

For a person who know a thing or two about software development, I expected a kick start book to provice a useful step by step example of how to use Workshop to write application, instead this book tells you nothing, but general talk about the concept of workshop.

Don't buy this book, it is a waste of money

This book has to be one of the most poorly laid out and shallow programming books I have ever read. I ran into a problem with a DB driver trying to work an example in chapter 6. It wasn't until chapter 8 that they warn you about the error I was hitting. This book contains virtually no examples. I would expect a book like this to have much more examples to work.