Customer Reviews

WebSphere Studio Application Developer 5.0

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3 star:		(1)
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I was looking for a book about WebSphere Studio Application Developer 5. I read this negative review of the reader and it was a concern. However, this is the only book completely dedicated to WSAD 5 and it's context looks good, so I decided to take a risk and buy. I am glad I did it.

Yes, the book examples use DB2 7.1 and WSAD 5.0 and the corresponding software currently available for download - DB2 8.1 and WSAD 5.1. However, I found absolutely no problems installing them both following the book and installation instructions and then developing all book examples.

For BD2 8.2, I did not find any differences except this small one - you no longer need to pre-set DB2 for Java 2 (it is already set for this by default). There are some screens differences between WSAD 5.0 and WSAD 5.1, but they are minor and easy to handle (IBM simply rearranged some screens - moving some fields between screens). When I was developing the book examples, these changes were easy to handle.

By reading the book and developing its examples, I learn a lot about WSAD 5. The book's style is "step-by-step" with a lot of explanations - which is very helpful and easy to follow. In addition, the book covers some advanced topics that I was unable to find elsewhere.

The author of this negative book review considers this book and all other books (he purchased) completely useless. I think it's his problem rather then the books.

I decided to write this book review, because he simply misleads the readers.

Very helpful book for beginners and experienced people

I studied this book through every page, executing every example and found it informative and accurate. The way this book is constructed, it is a good manual, because it starts with relatively simple material, and gradually increases a complexity. Appendixes are also very valuable, because they demonstrate how to deploy just developed and unit tested J2EE applications into WebSphere server. The book is also a good reference material.

Especially I value the Part Three about J2EE messaging. People, who are experienced with J2EE will find this material helpful to learn about J2EE JMS and concrete MQ implementation, and opposite, people, like myself, having many years of experience working with MQ, to grasp J2EE JMS implementation with MQ.

About myself: I work with IBM and BEA Middleware products for about 6 years. I have written a note to our IBM sales representative about this book, recommending IBM to ask Igor Livshin to write a Red Book on WebSphere MQ and JMS

Ilya Rabinovich, Irabinovich@geico.com

After reading this book I found that it provided the most comprehensive coverage of WebSphere 5.0
Application Developer that you will find anywhere. The book style is written
in a practical "How TO" - "STEP BY" style where each chapter has a clear
example that you can follow and run.

This book clearly explains hard to find information on how to integrate
MQ/MQSeries with WebSphere, which is needed to communicate with legacy
applications. In my opinion, if you are anywhere from novice to advanced user,
this book will be of great value as a resource and a reference.
Some of the chapters I especially thought are very well done are the Workbench,
Database, EJB development, XML development, Messaging and J2EE Deployment.

I highly recommend this fine book!

It took me two weeks time to finish reading the first seven chapters of the book. And the book samples are pretty impressive: They are very simple and easy to understand and implement. They are also accurate so that I can understand the WSAD gradually. Although there are some typos and errors inside the book, the book is still very good for any Java developers who want to learn WSAD.

This is the best book about using WebSphere Studio Application Developer (WSAD 5.0) for developing distributed J2EE 1.3 application. I found it very practical with many easy to follow examples that cover the most important aspects of J2EE 1.3 development.

I especially value the part of the book that covers integration of WSAD 5.0 with WebSphere MQ (MQSeries) that functions as a JMS provider. This is a complex topic with information that is hard to find elsewhere. The book presents practical examples of JMS development using WebSphere MQ as a JMS provider. Using the book, I finally was able to develop a working JMS application with WebSphere MQ as a provider.

I highly recommend this book.

The book is already outdated since IBM DB2 Version 7 is no longer available for download, there are no errata to use version 8. After you get DB2 v8 installed then the real problems start in ch4 with a database example that does not work (I tried it 4 times so far). The worst part is you have to build the whole thing before you find out it wont run. I hesitate to continue reading on because I dont want to waste time with non-functional code examples. Another $55.00 down the drain. Dont waste your money - stick with the samples at IBM Developer works, at least you can get support for there when there are problems.

Other comments are misleading, do not buy this book. I had origionally decided to buy this book because of the good comments, at first I wished to believe that this is so and that this book was a good book, but it is not.

This book has far too many errors that deteriorate it from having any value. not to mention it is out of date. I have installed db2 8.2 and WSAD 5.1.2, they do work up to chapter 7. Thats when the book supposedly gets interesting. I dont believe the other comment writers got past this chapter, atleast not with the later software.

The corrections page on apress website only show 10% of the actual errors that reside in this book. Again , they are misleading. Even worse, the corrections page is full of errors.

The Ordering of the chapters is wrong, ch5 should have been divided into 6 and 7, ch3 should not even exist. The book really starts at chapter 6, which makes you wonder what was in the previous chapters.

The author of this book I believe is only a deployer and not a programmer, he has many bad programming practices and knows little about the fundamentals of programming.

I only give this book two star, I dont wish this book on my worst enemy. This book should not have been published.

If you buy this book, Good Luck, you have been warned.

I cant believe how many errors this book has. this book should have been made into a second or third edition the moment it was published. here are some of the things to expect(to name a few):wrong code, the bad spelling, the bad grammer, poor programming style.

Events:
1. Apress publishing gone on a coffee break
2. apress spilling coffee on this book
3. apress throw this book into the wrong pile.

This Author writing a book for IBM redbooks ...LOL... I didnt think so.

The sample codes of the book have too many bugs. Those are rather small mistakes that the author would've been able to correct if he spent more time to review before publishing. And the examples are too simple too. If they were more real-life and complex examples, then users would not only learn how to use Webshpere but also would make progress in their Java programming skills.