Customer Reviews

JNDI API Tutorial and Reference: Building Directory-Enabled Java™ Applications

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I have gone through this book, and find that it lacks systematic detailed information on the Preparations section, before being able to attempt the examples in the book. In my opinion this is a very serious drawback, and can throw off readers new to JNDI. So, in essence this book can be further improved upon by the authors with due consideration to the initial preparedness and loading of seed data sections, to enable the readers who attempt the examples, a more fruitful and enjoyable experience.

I heard the material was the same, but was hoping for a more thoughtful layout and more of a teaching perspective. No such luck.

This book is basically the same thing as on the sun website. It came without a cd although the authors mentioned a cd in the book for source code lookup.I have the impression the book was out of print because of the already mentioned cd issue and the fact that amazon had to wait for long time to get this book from the publishing warehouse(This is the reason amazon gave me for delaying the shipping)
This book is half tutorial(0-396) half API(397-756) with some bonuses like LDAP schemas.

Having about a year or so experience with Java, I bought this book intending to use JNDI on a project. I was hoping for a clear, simple tutorial; instead I had to wrestle with setting up my environment for at least two hours before I could even run one sample program. The authors do NOT clearly state which .JAR files have to go in jre/lib/ext, they do not explain that the path in the samples needs to be changed from /tmp/tutorial to whatever directory you are working in, and some of their examples are wrong (page 27 - the Lookup program does NOT take a command-line argument). I haven't started the Directory Operations chapter yet (since it requires an LDAP server and I haven't installed one yet), but if it took this long just to get through the basics, I have a feeling I'm going to be spending a lot of time reading Sun's forums looking for answers...

After reading documentation of JNDI and Wrox's Java Server Programming book, I realized that I need a more detailed hands-on book. I downloaded Netscape Directory Server for NT and read its document. Unfortunately (or fortunately), I can make my java program work on JNDI, LDAP until I read THIS book. I am happy to find it on sun's website. Make comparison by yourself. It is really an excellent book on JNDI.

I've been using JNDI for 1 1/2 years now, and Rosanna and Scott (both engineers responsible for the APIs) are two of the most knowledgeable people I've met on directory services. The book is based on the unbeatable JNDI tutorial, and it's worth getting for anyone doing J2EE programming.

Hi, everyone,

I just bought this book. I am very disappointed. It's obviously a trick. It is absolutely NOT necessary to buy this book. I didnot check all contents, but Tutorial part is just a copy from internet, which you can access from the sun.com and download it totally free. I am sure that other part of this UGLY book can be also got from internet free.

I am shameful for the authors. In order to make money, they lost their conscience.