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Java™ EE 5 Tutorial, The (3rd Edition)

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The book description says "This book takes a task-oriented, example-driven approach to show you how to build applications for the Java EE 5 platform."

That is a very misleading half truth. You would expect step by step instructions to write and deploy simple examples. Well the authors have decided to take a short cut instead. They say 'Here is a nice little example we have written the other day. And we will just tell you how to deploy and run it!. True, they 'discuss' the code in the text. But obviously that is not as good as guiding you through the process of building and deploying from scratch. As a result, you have to learn some stuff the hard way by struggling with error messages (for example how to set up library references in netbeans when creating Application Clients or how to edit the build.properties before using ant to create JMS resources etc are not mentioned)
In the preface you get a 'road map' diagram to help you 'navigate' through the tutorial. But that doesn't tell the whole story.For example the diagram doesn't really tell you that to learn about Message driven beans (which is around the in the middle of the book) you should first learn JMS( which is near the end of the book) Too many forward references makes this very difficult to use.

I am not saying it is completely useless. With a little pain and some googling you can stumble through this stuff very slowly. But it just could be an awful lot better.

Sun says they have simplified JEE so much with version 5. If that is so why can't they write a complete tutorial that readers new to JEE can read and work through step by step? The biggest criticism leveled against JEE is that it is too complex. By writing a better tutorial Sun can go a long way towards making JEE easier to use.

This book makes sense only if you already know Java EE, but in that case you don't need it. One of the worst tutorial I've ever seen. Wasted a lot of time trying to understand what it says, but that's so hard because it keeps referring to concepts that are be not covered until later chapters (forward referencing). The examples are working, but no clear explanation on what each of them does, how to reassemble them, etc. No step by step guide. Even concepts aren't explained well enough.

Thats a nice Book! the problem is this book is not portable like the java language. I sugest you to read the pdf before buy this book, so, if you like it, then purchase it. The pdf in the sun's site is equals this book, but for me is unbearable to read much time on PC.

"The Java EE 5 Tutorial" is the official tutorial covering all the Java EE technologies.

"As part of Sun's 'The Java Series' this book has the same content as you can find online. Why buy a book you can get for free? Convenience!! You can take it anywhere and read it anytime." - Dave Vick - JavaRanch Review of the J2EE 1.4 version of this book. They eliminated the best part of a hardcopy! At 1300 pages, The Java EE 5 book is too heavy to carry around conveniently. (the 1.4 edition was less than 600 pages) I think it is time to split this book into two volumes. Maybe right after the 500 pages on the front end.

Other things I disliked:
It wasn't clear what was new in Java EE 5.
As in past editions, it reads better online than printed.
There are extensive forward references and lots of repetition. For example, chapter 16 repeats the six steps to open a NetBeans project 12 times!
Many examples didn't explain how/why to do something - like whether to call a web service directly from a JSP.
Most examples used Java 5 syntax inconsistently. It looked like Sun recommends using generics for collections, but precious little else from Java 5.

There were good diagrams and charts and good case studies along with several excellent chapters. Overall, I would say to read the pieces you are interested in online and spend your money on a different book.

There is a new version available of this book. It was updated in October of 2008 and, best of all, it's a free download. Just google "The Java EE 5 Tutorial" and you'll find it on Sun's website. It's also available as a PDF.

It's a book written by the technical writers. People who have no idea, what they are talking about, what things are important and what are not. It goes on and on and on about the useless details and misses the important things.

I'm very disappointed in this book. It conveys little in the way of what goes in to the development, and deployment, of J2EE applications. You're left scratching your head, wondering, how a J2EE app.' went from code to production. There is no continuity in their step-by-step process (i.e. process of developing and deploying an EJB, etc.). It would've been nice if they talked more about descriptors and creating Ant files to deploy J2EE apps, but instead they rely on NetBeans. This book is another example of the industry spewing out trash just to make a buck!

I hate it when a potentially great technical book shoots itself in the foot by becoming a book on how to use a certain product to do something instead of just how to do it. In this case, the book should be retitled "Java EE 5 with NetBeans or our downloadable ant scripts that we aren't going to explain". It would have been nice if they had dedicated just one chapter to what these tools are actually doing for you behind the scenes.

This book is a good self-studying book. It provides JavaEE knowledge systematically with good examples, which helps understanding JavaEE.

Es un libro de referencia muy bueno, realizado por los de Sun.

De volumen es un tocho (casi 1400 páginas) pero si lo usas como referencia de trabajo tienes toda la información necesaria sobre java EE.

Muy recomendable.