Professional IBM WebSphere 5.0 Application Server (Programmer to Programmer) [Paperback]

Tim Francis (Author), Eric Herness (Author), Rob High Jr. (Author), Jim Knutson (Author), Kim Rochat (Author), Chris Vignola (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0764543660 | ISBN-13: 978-0764543661 | Publication Date: December 1, 2002

What is this book about?

The WebSphere platform from IBM, with its rich function set, industry leading performance and scalability, as well as configuration flexibility, is one of the leading products of the application server generation.

For the experienced J2EE developer, this book details how to develop, deploy and manage enterprise applications for version 5.0 of IBM's WebSphere Application Server. Over the course of the book a large-scale e-commerce application is developed that demonstrates the use of WebSphere Application Developer Studio for the creation of J2EE applications, as well as functionality of the application server, including Web Services, Application Profiles, and Enterprise Workflows. The book also addresses other enterprise-level issues such as security, deployment topology and server administration.

This book is written by IBM's WebSphere Experts and Architects: Rob High is the Chief Architect for WebSphere foundation; Eric Herness is the Senior Architect for WAS Enterprise; Jim Knutson is the Senior Architect for WAS J2EE; Chris Vignola is the Lead Architect for WAS for zOS; Tim Francis the Senior Architect for WebSphere Studio Application Developer; and Kim Rochat is an Architect for WAS Web Services.

What does this book cover?

In this book, you will learn how to

• Develop J2EE applications with WebSphere Studio 5.0
• Package and deploy J2EE applications to WebSphere Application Server 5.0
• Develop web services for WebSphere 5.0
• Optimize EJB's runtime, concurrency and transactions for WebSphere Enterprise 5.0
• Choreograph work flows and business processes with WebSphere Studio Integration Edition 5.0
• Explore WebSphere 5.0's extended feature set for enterprise development
• Secure your enterprise with WebSphere 5.0

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From the Publisher

This book is written by key personnel in the IBM development team responsible for the creation of the WebSphere 5.0 Application Server and the associated WebSphere Application Developer Studio. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From the Back Cover

The WebSphere platform from IBM, with its rich function set, industry-leading performance, and scalability, as well as configuration flexibility, is one of the leading products of the application server generation.

For the experienced J2EE™ developer, this book details how to develop, deploy, and manage enterprise applications for version 5.0 of IBM WebSphere Application Server. Over the course of the book, a large-scale e-commerce application is developed that demonstrates the use of WebSphere Application Developer Studio for the creation of J2EE applications, as well as functionality of the application server, including Web Services, Application Profiles, and Enterprise Workflows. The book also addresses other enterprise-level issues such as security, deployment topology, and server administration.

This book is written by IBM WebSphere Experts and Architects: Rob High Jr. is the Chief Architect for WebSphere foundation; Eric Herness is the Senior Architect for WAS Enterprise; Jim Knutson is the Senior Architect for WAS J2EE; Chris Vignola is the Lead Architect for WAS for zOS; Tim Francis is the Senior Architect for W ebSphere Studio Application Developer; and Kim Rochat is an Architect for WAS Web Services.

What does this book cover?

• How to develop J2EE applications with WebSphere Studio 5.0
• How to package and deploy J2EE applications to WebSphere Application Server 5.0
• How to develop web services for WebSphere 5.0
• How to optimize EJB’s runtime, concurrency, and transactions for WebSphere Enterprise 5.0
• How to choreograph workflows and business processes with WebSphere Studio Integration Edition 5.0
• How to use WebSphere 5.0’s extended feature set for enterprise development
• How to secure your enterprise with WebSphere 5.0

"Good middleware design incorporates three key principles: precision to work well, tolerance to work with varying conditions, and strength to keep working under stress. WebSphere is designed to blend the precision needed to run your business efficiently, the tolerance needed to handle your specific computing requirements, and the strength needed to handle your largest workload demands."
—Rob High, Jr., WebSphere foundation, Chief Architect

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Product Details

• Paperback: 792 pages
• Publisher: Wrox (December 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764543660
• ISBN-13: 978-0764543661
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.4 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,240,588 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Complicating the simple and confusing the clear, December 15, 2003

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Riccardo Audano (Chiavari, Italy) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Professional IBM WebSphere 5.0 Application Server (Programmer to Programmer) (Paperback)

This book has been a huge disappointment. Wrox books had the
habit of being no BS, clear, hands-on, detailed techical tutorials.. and this is why they had their original success. But now, perhaps in conjunction with being bought by Wiley, Wrox is definitely going down. The authors of this book souns like IBM managers, not certainly programmers. The first chapters do not contain ANY techical info but just advertising for IBM products (I am not making this up..!)
The rest of the presentation is a confused, disorderly, bloated,
verbose, unnecessarily complicated sequence of "click here and then click there" instructions. If you have some brains this book will be unbearable, if you have none, well you're probably one of the authors.
What is most irritating and annoying about this book is the pompous, monotonous, slow tone aimed at passing straightforward
technical notions for rocket science, which unfortunately seems to be a general trend at IBM.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing!, July 15, 2003

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Michael (Manotick, Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Professional IBM WebSphere 5.0 Application Server (Programmer to Programmer) (Paperback)

I found this book extremely disappointing! It was full of errors and left important steps out of the practical exercises. It took me a long time to read, as I spent hours trying to locate some of the screens they were talking about so I could follow along with the discussion!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Surprisingly Unhelpful, November 21, 2003

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Tim McNerney (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Professional IBM WebSphere 5.0 Application Server (Programmer to Programmer) (Paperback)

There are a lot of things wrong with this book. I gained very little on WAS (ass opposed to WSAD, which I don't use) from it that wasn't available in the application docs (which are pretty poor to start with). But let me sum it up with an example.

The cover says "A Guide to Building J2EE Applications". In the index under debugging, I find:

debugger, 78
debugging business processes, 461-462

I don't know about anyone else, but such minimal coverage of such an important topic makes me think that the authors must not have ever actually developed an application using WAS.