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Java Database Programming

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I got this book from a friend who was going to throw it away. After perusing it, I threw it away. You would learn more about servlets from reading a couple of articles in periodicals! This book's content is so vapid and the author's style is so pretentious it is comical. No doubt, I would have been less amused if I'd wasted my money on it instead of just my time.

Instead of stars, I think Amazon.com should offer a bomb icon for a book this bad.

If you were waiting for a book that offered an in depth treatment of servlets, you'll have to keep waiting. This book on Java Servlets and JDBC offers only 20 pages on Servlets and the content of those pages is pretty thin. Do you really want to see the code for a 'Hello World' or a counter servlet? The author's code is generously shared on a diskette glued to the back cover. For US$50 at least give me the code on CD-ROM! This book reminds me of those overpriced paperback textbooks, written by the instructor, we were compelled to buy in college. I wish JavaSoft would step up to the plate and publish a book that thoroughly covers servlets with useful, annotated examples and maybe even include an appendix of the complete Servlet API classes.

After browsing this book at a local book store, I'm now convinced that the old saying is true: "those who can't do, teach. those who can't teach, write books" the title of the book is misleading. the examples are extremly poor, the style of writting is bizarre, the index is a joke... the list could go on and on. I wonder how this THING ever got publisned! Alan Williamson and Ceri Moran, shame on both of you!

How could Amazon include this thing on its selections! It's an offense to any programmer with the desire to learn.It's total anti-java.It's not simple,It's not portable and it gives the impression that it was written to an elite of javaheads that think they're so cool because of their explosives I.Qs. These people are not writing for people.They're writting for themselves Big time show-offs. Go work for microsoft!

As with all the other online reviews that have been written about this book, the title is absouletly misleading. This book is about very basic Java concepts. And in protest, I recomend that all fellow programmers refrain from purchasing anything else written by these so-called authors.

With the lack of books about servlets I bought a copy of this, excited and hoping that I would actually learn something from it. I am fairly new to java programming and knew very little about servlets before reading the book - after having read through the book I am absolutely none the wiser. I really don't know who this book is aimed at, but I for one am annoyed that my hard earned money has been wasted on a book that is only really suited to keeping the back door open. Only buy this book if you like an arrogant style of writing with little useful information, or if like me you have wonky hinges.

This book more than deserves the poor reviews. How it got published is a mystery. It has no value as a reference and the few, poor examples it offers you've probably already seen somewhere else.

I wish I'd kept my receipt.

I wouldn't waste your time on this one, like the other reviewers stated, its not a good book on servlets. Doesn't go into much detail. This would be a good book for someone who is just starting java and has a very basic understanding of RDBMS, as it covers jdbc and sql 101.. but it is not a good resource for servlet developers.

This book purports to teach JDBC and Servlet programming in Java. But it actually does neither of the two. The examples are, well, murky; they use a strange programming style which makes them extremely difficult to follow. It is extremely hard or downright impossible to get anything useful out of this book. At the time it came out it was one of the few titles dealing with these subjects. But nowadays one can find quite a few books dealing with JDBC and Servlet programming which are much more instructional, transparent, and to the point.

The bottom line: Skip this book. It is expensive and useful only as a doorstop.

I bought this book several months ago thinking I would get some good information about two subjects that fit well together. But I discovered that it covered both subjects sparsely. It seemed to cover more about Jeeves and applets than servlets and jdbc. I hate the fact that I spent so much on a book that I used so little. If you want an excellent book on servlets, get O'Reilly's Java Servlet Programming instead.