Customer Reviews

Designing Enterprise Applications with the Java(TM) 2 Platform (Enterprise Edition)

5 star:		(7)
4 star:		(10)
3 star:		(4)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

Good book. Easy to read and good coverage of the Web Tier (Servlets and JSPs) as well as EJBs. Won't tell you the "how" but does an excellent job with the "why". Can be downloaded for free at java.sun.com/j2ee/download.html aka the J2EE Blueprint. Use it in conjunction with Professional JSP from Wrox and Enterprise Javabeans from Monson-Haefel and you can't go wrong.

One of the better books when it comes to designing enterprise applications, if not the best. The stress in the book is not on developing, but as the title suggests - the stress is on designing enterprise apps using j2ee. So don't look in this book for broad and expansive coverage on technologies such as JSP, Servlets, EJBs. There are plenty of other books that do that. Where the books scores is in the lucid explanation of ways to design an enterprise application. But the reader should be aware of the J2EE technologies are used here prior to reading this book. There are chapters written by different authors who are (probably)experts in their domains. For eg. the chapter 4 - The Web Tier is very well written and clears a lot of doubts. In short a good book for clearing up all your doubts on the design of a J2EE app. This is one of a kind book on this subject. Also, a good source for clearing up your MVC fundamentals.

The book is a very good book about designing a web-based application architecture. This is the book that everybody should read before they create a client/server system with Java. Few books go beyond the syntax of a language and discuss the architectural design of a good system. This book does just that.

What I didn't like about the book is that some chapters are better than others. I believe that this occurred because different people wrote different chapters. The book does, however, do a good job of integrating the chapters into a single cohesive unit.

I also would have liked to have seen more details about the implementation of the design. When I'm unfamiliar with the language, I find it difficult to understand how to actually implement the general design concepts. The reader must download the Pet Store example application and muddle through the code to determine which code implements which part of the design as well as figure out how the details of the code.

In fact, I have bought this book for a month and I have read it within 1 week time. I am,indeed, a Java programmer currently and work with Weblogic Appl. Server and Oracle database, I don't know the exact definition and services provided by standard J2EE platform at the beginning. After reading this book, you can get the idea of how to establish some frameworks for web components and EJB components, how are they interacting with each other and integrated with legacy system, other J2EE services like transaction management, life cycle management, security....quite comprehensive and sound for you to read. Of course, if you want to understand more, pls pls pls...spend some time on the last chapter, download the pet shop from java.sun.com and play around the sample code with the book, you will understand the strength of J2EE.

I bought this book in order to get a good overview of the J2EE platform. I was looking for a book that would summarize the first level of technical detail on the technologies of the J2EE platform and their interplay. The first few chapters useful for the component overview. Beyond that, I found that I was better off getting my information from other books. The chapters vary widely in quality and substance. Some sections deal with broad truisms and generalities, while others dive deeply into coding related details.

This definitely feels like a book written by committee.

I bought this book because I'm currently trying to understand how to best configure distbuted applications, especially using EJB.

While there is useful information to be gained from the reading through the whole book, by far the most compelling chapter is the last one, which describes the architecture of the Pet Store application.

Although I haven't fully grasped it yet, the model seems on the surface to be quite elegant and simple. For example, the sequence diagrams describing the front-to-back/back-to-front processing comprise only 10 or 12 method calls altogether, which is pretty good considering some apps I've worked on. Also, it is set up such that all requests are funneled through a single, uniform series of calls. The implication is that the framework is so flexible it can handle a variety of requests via this one path, thus making the whole application easier to understand, configure, and maintain (hopefully).

This is the one of the few books, maybe the only one, that I've seen which is really based more on modeling of the recommended overall deployment strategy for a distributed app, rather than a more low level description of the various technologies. The fact it is written by Sun gives it a great deal of credibility.

The minus one star is give due to the uneveness and rather one-offish nature of some of the chapters.

If you don't want to buy the book, read the last chapter online and download the Pet Store app.

As an intermediate software developer and a rookie in JAVA, I found this book helpful to understand how different JAVA modules and features interact for developing an end-to-end enterprise application.

I thought this book did a great job covering the J2EE concepts. Some chapters were better than others but I think that everyone that is building J2EE applications should read this book (or most of the chapters) at least once. I made it a required reading for members of my development team.

It talks about the Pet Store application written by Sun which is a great example to learn from. It is also valuable for people that are interested in moving to EJB. (Talks about a Web centric approach vs. EJB centric.) I think that this book is a must read!

Try Ed Roman's book. It is way more readable if you want to learn J2EE without having to read a blueprint. Just cause they developed the stuff, doesn't mean they are great writers ! I left this book after 3 chapters. It was like reading a translation. Hey, I gave it an extra star cause I downloaded it free from Sun.

I have been using Servlet/JSP/EJB for quite a while. However, until after reading this book, I start to fully understand the big picture of the J2EE platfrom.

I wish I could have read it long time ago, before I started dig into all the details of Servlet/JSP/EJB! While, after understanding all these building blocks, come back and read this big picture blueprint is still a very nice treatment.

High recommended for serious server side Java designers / Architects !

Looking forward to the upcoming 2nd edition of the book.