Customer Reviews

Connecting JavaBeans with InfoBus

5 star:		(3)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(7)

 

 

This book is one of the worst written books I've ever seen. I bought it as an impulse buy when I saw "InfoBus" in the title - I'd really like to know more about this. And it may well be that there's a lot of information here, but wading through the rambling, disorganized text is frustrating beyond belief. I made it through 100 pages, but I doubt that there was a single page that wasn't painful to read. I'm going to see if I can get my money back.

The book's prose is terrible! The author could have expressed the same concepts in half the words. I swear Dan Quayle wrote this book. An example (p. 60):

"HOW DOES INFOBUS AFFECT JAVABEANS AND JAVA APPLETS?

This is a very good topic to discuss. Notice that it is posed as a question. This means that the topic needs attention. InfoBus is a pure Java solution. The way things look with InfoBus, it may seem like a competitor to other Java technologies; however, that is not the case at all. Many contradictions do exist in the industry about it, and [sic] good understanding of them is essential at this point."

Please! Just give me the information on InfoBus! After reading 100 pages just like the above, I came to Amazon.com to be rescued from this horrible abyss. Sadly, no other books on InfoBus are available, yet. It's too bad, too, because InfoBus looks like a good technology.

The technical information contained in this book could have been written in a pamphlet. The rest of the writing is garbage. The author's writing style is tuned for beginners of computers, not to advanced IT professionals. Wiley aims their publications for high-end developers, but has failed with this book.

I got this book because it was the only one on the market. The writing is confusing, awkward, and full of useless analogies. The style is so strained it seems that if this book were written about tying your shoes it would be 200 pages with lots of commentary about how nice brown shoes are compared to lettuce. You'd be a lot better off downloading the Infobus specification from the Sun website.

If there is a worse book, it must have been written by the same guy. I dont think he understands InfoBus or how to write a book. How does this kind of stuff get published?

If this was an example of how not to write a book this would be an excellent book. It might be a book about the InfoBus, but any information that might be useful to the reader is buried in a morass of unreadable prose. I suggest other prospective readers wait for someone to do a better job.

This is just about the worst IT book I've ever had the misfortune to purchase.

If you stripped out the tortuous ramblings and technically inaccurate formulations then you'd end up with less what javadoc provides - and even that would have typos in it.

Based on previous experiences with Wiley, I didn't hesitate to buy "Connecting JavaBeans...". In future I'll take far more care.

I spent more than a half hour reading this book in a book store to see if I could get anything useful out of it. I didn't. I agree with the other reviewers who describe the author's writing style as "stream-of-consciousness". I would call it both tortuous and torturous at best. The editor really failed on this job.

If you are the type who can only learn from reading code and lots of examples, and you are willing to wade through impenetrable prose, then this book could be for you. If you are looking for detailed, easy to access information then forget it. Most will do better with the Infobus specification, which you can download from Sun. I learned substantially more in 10 minutes reading the Infobus spec than I did from this book. So I left the book in the store for the next unsuspecting soul.

I gave 5 stars for this book, because this is an excellent book on InfoBus. I found the examples very helpful and the explanations easy to read. I recommend this to anyone who are using this technology. I specially like the fact that the author details an InfoBus design model and then shows you how to create a data and file lock controller. Interesting chapters clarify and examine the relationship and access methods between InfoBus and JDBC, RMI and CORBA using business oriented applications that solve specific problems.

This book explains how to use the InfoBus - a technology in Java that allows JavaBeans to dynamically share data. The book is thorough, but desperately needed a strong editor. The sentence structure is strained, to say the least - especially in the first two chapters. And, the overall structure of the book could have been tighter - less verbiage, but more to the point. However, if you stick with it, your persistence will be rewarded; a thorough introduction to the InfoBus will be gained.