Customer Reviews

JavaBeans Programming from the Ground Up

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OK, so I am hard to please... The book was very good- delivered on its promise to teach Java Beans. I have the following observations:

1) Never came out and said exactly what a Java Bean is- a component that can be manipulated in a visual builder. The Beans spec addresses the mechanism by which a Bean exposes its features to the Builder. The book covers additional material, which *should* be covered, but never makes clear what makes a Bean a Bean.

2) Stuffed (padded?) with examples.

3) Section on Introspection was not as clear as it could have been. I downloaded the Beans spec from the Sun site, and that helped fill in the gaps.

Overall, I would definitely recommend this book.

This is a very good book well worth the money. I would have given it 5 star rating, except for one thing. The author should have explained more clearly about the method of mapping used in chapter 3 since it is different from the previous chapters. It took me very long time to figure it out. My conclusion is go buy it, but be aware of what I just said.

I have not completed book yet, but so far it delivers on its promise. I have read (or attempted to read) two or three others, all of which meander around, deviating far from stated course. This book is concise, direct to point and very well written. Recommend it highly!

Having spent thousands on Programming books, I have found that anything with Herb Schlidt's name on it is by far the best books I own.

This book, which purports to be from "the ground up" actually spends most of its text on building bean *content*. If you just want to know the ins-and-outs of building a bean, testing the bean, creating a JAR file, and loading and calling the JAR file in an application, this book is shockingly lacking in that most vital of information needed by a beginner JavaBean writer. Worse yet, the book is hopelessly out of date. The Bean Development Kit it uses for testing beans is no longer supported by Sun Microsystems. The new IDE, Netbeans, is not even mentioned in this text. Lastly, I found this book hard to read. This text is dead, and its death was not pretty. Do not buy this book.

This book was loaded with examples. The examples can be downloaded off of the internet, which is great because I've had CDs in books arrive broken before.

The step-by-step RMI instructions helped me a lot with my assignments, and I learned a lot of stuff from this book.

I would not recommend this book to a programming beginner, though. It assumes that you know at least some basics of a high level language.

The book is really worth buying. It explains all the bean concepts clearly and has good complete examples. Great Job !