17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
A disappointing tutorial, December 1, 2009
This review is from: Oracle JDeveloper 11g Handbook: A Guide to Fusion Web Development (Oracle Press) (Paperback)
I was hoping for a book that would provide an in-depth discussion of applying this technology to my business problem. And frankly, I am disappointed. I suppose that my chief disappointment is that the book seems to digress too quickly into a tutorial. For example, I was interested in how to use a popup dialog box. There is no coverage of popup dialog boxes outside the chapters where one builds a sample application. Another of the key concepts that separates ADF Faces technology from Java Server Faces is the built in partial page rendering available in the ADF components. The authors devote one page to a general discussion of the technology, glossing over some important details in my opinion, then digress into another series of tutorials. While tutorials are great if I am building the sample application, everyone I speak with agrees that tutorials generally fall short when it comes to applying the technology to real business problems. Additionally, no place that I have worked is interested in paying you while you build the sample application in order to learn the technology. We need books that allow us to quickly apply the technology to our business problems. In my case, my business problem is more complex than simple master detail relationships and persisting data to a database. Perhaps my review would be more positive if my business problem were that simple.
Another place where the book falls short is that it fails to discuss the what the various controls on the property inspector are for, leaving us guessing and in many cases simply wondering.
If you are looking for a reasonably good tutorial, showing you how to build a typical CRUD application backed by a database, then this might be for you. If you are looking for an in depth discussion of the technology, and guidance in making design decisions for your own application, you are likely to be disappointed.
I come from a web development background having done Java EE for more than 6 years, including HTML, Java Script, JSP, EJB, and JDBC to name a few technologies. I have worked in all layers from the database to the user interface, using JDeveloper, Eclipse, and WebSphere to name a few integrated development environments I have worked in. So I am not new to web development on the Java platform.
In short, this book disappointed me. I still think the market needs a good book on applying this promising technology.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Just a start, February 17, 2010
This review is from: Oracle JDeveloper 11g Handbook: A Guide to Fusion Web Development (Oracle Press) (Paperback)
I agree with the first review. I bought this book expecting there would we more deep discussion into the framework for at least a medium business need. What I got by reading the entire book is a short version of the developer guide, that is actually free from oracle's web site.
But, you still need to know how to develop a CRUD application before doing the real business app. And yes, we still need a non-basic ADF book.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Figures have no labels, April 28, 2011
This review is from: Oracle JDeveloper 11g Handbook: A Guide to Fusion Web Development (Oracle Press) (Paperback)
Most figures of this book are not labeled. While you're reading the book, sometime you don't know which figures he refers to.
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