IBM WebSphere Starter Kit (Book/CD-ROM package) [Illustrated] [Paperback]

Ron Ben-Natan (Author), Ori Sasson (Author)

Book Description

Series: Oracle Press Starter Kit | Publication Date: May 16, 2000

The IBM WebSphere TM family of products offers customers an open standards-based Java Server runtime environment, along with Web site development tools, commerce software and management software to help companies build, manage and deploy powerful, portable e-business applications. The Aberdeen Group predicts that WebSphere will become the most widely deployed open-standard-based run-time environment on the market. Any company that has a large existing IT infrastructure based on IBM products will certainly put IBM at the top of its list of vendors to turn to for e-commerce/e-business solutions. A few of the companies who recently chose WebSphere are Banc One, NYSE, Dr. Pepper/Seven Up, Ingram Micro, and Merck KGaA. IBM WebSphere Starter Kit will be one-stop solution for developers building e-commerce websites from start to finish, including ready-to-use software.

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From the Back Cover

A complete toolkit for building powerful e-commerce solutions from start to finish!

Now you can develop a complete, interactive Web site easily using WebSphere, the most sophisticated IBM-based open platform technology available today. This book/CD-ROM package provides comprehensive coverage for developers building e-commerce Web sites and includes IBM WebSphere Application Server, Standard Edition, Evaluation Version for Windows NT. Written by two expert developers, this book delivers information on Web site creation and development, deployment of Web-based applications, and server debugging.

This handy starter kit will show you how to:

Install and start WebSphere Transform static Web pages into a dynamic, fully functional Web site Manage and share site files effectively using WebSphere Performance Pack Use WebSphere Studio for both local and remote debugging Build XML-based applications Utilize EJB and CORBA for high-volume, transaction-heavy sites

Included are step-by-step instructions for building applications with NetObjects and IBM San Francisco and extensive coverage of Java servlets, Enterprise JavaBeans, and VisualAge. This toolkit is the only reference developers need to build, manage, and deploy powerful IBM technology-based Web sites.

Product Details

• Paperback: 720 pages
• Publisher: Osborne Publishing (May 16, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0072124075
• ISBN-13: 978-0072124071
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.2 x 2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,192,062 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #39 in Books > Computers & Technology > Web Development > Web Servers

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49 of 50 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not so impressed..., August 31, 2000

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Dan Kahler (Eldersburg, MD USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: IBM WebSphere Starter Kit (Book/CD-ROM package) (Paperback)

This is currently the only WebSphere 3.0 book on the market, but it's still not worth buying if you need to actually implement WebSphere or deploy enterprise Java code. The book is really a HIGH level overview of the product, and goes into greater depth on products that tie into WebSphere than on actually configuring and using WebSphere itself.

As an example, it's not until Chapter 40 that the authors discuss the WebSphere Administrative Console, which is where all post-installation WebSphere configuration is done. At least half of the chapter is bulleted list of menu items. (Didn't the authors think we could read these straight off of the console?) Administration tasks are, for the most part, ignored.

Chapter 21 - "WebSphere Security Services" - is a 4 page "quicky" on web security in general, and not WebSphere-specific, dispite the title. The lack of more detailed WebSphere security configuration info is an emormous omission: security in WebSphere is disabled by default, but there's not even mention of this fact!

The book is useful if you need just an overview of WebSphere, but if you need reference material or technical direction then the product help files and documentation and IBM web site are much better sources of information.

There's clearly a market for books to compete with and improve upon this effort.

28 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good overview, June 30, 2000

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Ruslan Moskalenko - See all my reviews

This review is from: IBM WebSphere Starter Kit (Book/CD-ROM package) (Paperback)

The book is good but you should understand what it is for. It's exactly WebSphere Starter Kit as it called in the title. It gives your overview of numerous WebSphere components and you start to understand what they are and what to read next. But it's not a tutorial. It contains some code samples, but it's just illustration what can be done. It's like if you visit space museum you can learn what is space rocket, but you don't know how to build it. It's also not a complete reference of WebSphere components and possible architectures. It's exactly the Starter Kit. CD also helps you to get started quicker.

WebSphere is growing so fast in many directions that it doesn't look like stable environment yet. And this book just reflects this situation. Authors give you good explanation of core techniques and they also try to focus on the most important and promising new components, but sometimes it's not obvious.

And, finally, IBM likes very sophisticated and complicated solutions (just compare Token Ring and Ethernet, IBM old OSes and Unix, SNA and TCP/IP). WebSphere is a complete and scalable solution, it works and you can really use it for e-business, but it isn't easy reading. Be ready to study a lot!

19 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars The included CD is worthless, June 1, 2000

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David A. Barnhart (Glendale, AZ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: IBM WebSphere Starter Kit (Book/CD-ROM package) (Paperback)

The CDROM included with this book is worthless. The chapter "Installing and Starting Websphere" describes installing Version 2.0 of Websphere Application Server, but the CD contains Version 3. As a result, not a single paragraph or screen shot is even remotely accurate. Furthermore, The book says that DB will be installed automatically as part of the installation. DB2 is not on the CD at all. And either DB2 or Oracle MUST be installed in order for Websphere to even start up.