Java EE 6 Development with NetBeans 7 Illustrated Edition

by David R. Heffelfinger (Author)

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David R. Heffelfinger

David Heffelfinger is the Chief Technology Officer of Ensode Technology, LLC, a software consulting firm based in the greater Washington DC area. He has been architecting, designing and developing software professionally since 1995 and has been using Java as his primary programming language since 1996. He has worked on many large scale projects for several clients including the US Department of Homeland Security, Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, and the US Department of Defense. He has a Masters degree in Software Engineering from Southern Methodist University. David is editor in chief of Ensode.net (ensode.net), a website about Java, Linux, and other technology topics.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Packt Publishing; Illustrated edition (June 17, 2011)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 392 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1849512701
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1849512701
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.48 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 0.89 x 9.25 inches

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David Heffelfinger is the Chief Technology Officer of Ensode Technology, LLC, a software consulting firm based in the greater Washington DC area. He has been architecting, designing and developing software professionally since 1995 and has been using Java as his primary programming language since 1996. He has worked on many large scale projects for several clients including the US Department of Homeland Security, Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, and the US Department of Defense. He has a Masters degree in Software Engineering from Southern Methodist University.

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Todd E Painton

Excellent entry level training that could use a few improvements.

Reviewed in the United States on November 30, 2011

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I have been programming in php for about 5 years and wanted to move to more enterprise size applications and thought Java was the way to go (I still think this). I had gone through the most of the Java Learning Path on Oracle's website and came away overwhelmed. My IDE of choice had always been Zend Studio Pro and I still prefer it for PHP. That said, Netbeans is now my IDE of choice for Java and this book is the reason. This book does a great job of explaining how to 1) Become more productive with JavaEE using Netbeans, and it does a great job of explaining JSP, JSF, etc. In addition the Persistence API chapter taught me more than I was ever able to gleen online via tutorials. The book is EXCELLENT for people who have an understanding of Java in general but need help moving toward Web Applications and Java EE. My main complaint with the book is that all of the code is UN-formatted and difficult to read. There is no indenting or color coding and this makes it very difficult for beginning Java EE programmers to follow. The good news is that all of the code is downloadable and can be viewed beautifully formatted in Netbeans. However, for times when I only have my kindle available.. It leaves me frustrated. Also, it would be nice if snippits of the code were included in the explanations. In other words, the author includes the entire block of code and then spends several pages explaining it, leaving the reader to have to shuffle back 2, 3, 4, 5 pages to review the code in question. These are very simple fixes and a revision would be great! Otherwise, it's an excellent book for moving from Java to Java EE. Thanks!

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AHMSA

Overall Good Book

Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2012

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I bought this book for a class and I have been going over it. It is a very good book on Java EE development. The only problem I see is that it has a tutorial feel to it. It doesn't always explain why things are being done the way they are done. If you want to learn more about the subject, I would recommend Head First Servlets and JSPs. The Head First book will give you more in-depth information about the subject. I don't think I would have enjoyed this book so much if I hadn't read the Head First book.

Reviewed in the United States on October 11, 2011

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Java EE 6 Development with NetBeans 7 is well written and easy to follow. There are lots of useful examples that guide the reader step by step in developing a number of small application components.

Each of the examples are presented with screen captures that offer a clear view of how to apply the principles covered. These make the book enjoyable to read, since it is not "text-heavy" and laborious to get through.

A page count of 367 makes this book more of an introduction to both Java EE 6 and NetBeans 7. Still, core topics are covered in a concise manner and in such a way that is easily comprehensible.

I managed to get through all except the last two chapters (as they aren't relevant for me at the moment) in a day and a half. I couldn't put this book down!

I particularly enjoyed the JSF chapter as well as the material dealing with Primefaces. It's also great to learn some of the time-saving tricks that you can use in NetBeans ;)

Overall, I would highly recommend this book as a first read on these topics, or to bring your skills up to the latest versions of both packages.

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Daniel Voet

Good book if you have exisiting Java knowledge

Reviewed in the United States on February 7, 2015

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Says on the back its written for advanced programmers. However, our teacher assigned the book for our first semester Java class. It was nearly impossible to follow at our level of programming.

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IF I Can't Configure It How Can I Benefit From It?

Reviewed in the United States on January 6, 2014

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When it comes to connections to a third party RDBM section and driver installation, that's where this book falters! This part of configuring your environment is more important than programming itself and authors spend the LEAST amount of time on making sure you understand how to and where to install drivers, jars, plugins, docs and other critical resources! This book failed to adequately explain those things so I lost interest after the second chapter!

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Vicente Martínez Gómez

The contents are Ok.

Reviewed in the United States on October 5, 2014

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The contents are Ok. Its an enhacer for begginers and to help advanced users to switch from Eclipse to Netbeans

Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2012

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its an excellent book, it has very clear instructions step by step that really helps to understand the concepts and also shows the many shortcuts in netbeans 7 that can make creating a complete web applications a breeze...

Reviewed in the United States on May 14, 2013

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This looks on the surface like it gets to the point and tells you what you need to know to get started. Unfortunately, if fails on a couple of counts. First, be aware that it's written with lots of examples, all of which are created against an Oracle database. Now, that DBMS is available free, but so far as I can tell, _only_ in a 64bit version. So, ensure you can run Oracle on your system before you even think about this book.

Second, there are areas of the technologies that the author either doesn't understand, or just plain forgot about. Big chunks of must-know information are simply missing.

I'm grateful I only bought the e-book version, so I didn't waste too much money, but this was indeed mostly a waste.

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gabeso

It's just OK

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 15, 2012

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I don't normally write reviews but feel unhappy enough to write this one. Note that there is a "Who this book is for" section with 3 types of target reader and I'm none of these: I am very rusty with J2SE, new to J2EE but feel that there is no real added value by the author on the subject matter: I accept that my difficulties may be entirely down to my lack of J2EE skills/familiarity (YMMV).

It's a series of very short chapters filled out with screenshots and raw dumps of code which are not formatted well for a book: If code is indented heavily it should not be printed with overlapping lines coming in from the left; Perhaps the essential lines/structure would be better extracted so the pattern can be seen/followed instead - after all the code can be downloaded separately. Using a rough estimate 30-40% of the book is not a graphic or a code listing i.e. most of the book is one of the two.

It feels like the text has been padded out with these - if they were removed it would not be a very long book at all. Or perhaps it could be a thinner, cheaper book without them.

There is no real depth to the material i.e. each chapter is essentially a few screenshots with code listings guiding you through some NetBeans wizard to achieve some outcome - I suspect you may as well just work through the official J2EE 6 tutorial and save your money - which is what I wish I had done instead. Perhaps the title should reflect the NetBeans aspect more than J2EE.

In summary - Although you may get some exposure to using NetBeans Wizards with this book I suspect you will get no real understanding of J2EE beyond that you bring with you (BYOU) - again, see "Who this book is for". I suspect that J2EE experts could play around anyway and get there on their own with NetBeans/J2EE Tutorial anyway.

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paulor

Netbeans vs EE 6... and the winner is Netbeans!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 12, 2012

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I have a background in EE developing, but mainly from previous EE versions and with another popular IDE, eclipse, so what I was really looking for was a quick way to get in touch with EE 6 and, at the same time, try netbeans and check how it fits my needs.

I think the book is too much about netbeans and less about EE 6 development, that's why I'm giving it just the 3 rating. A lot of paragraphs are on netbeans, do this in that menu, do that on this dialog, with images with it, which makes me believe, sometimes, that what I'm reading is a tutorial on netbeans.

A little more deep in the EE, and why do this and not that in EE, would be better, though.

Still, it's a quick way to get in touch with EE 6 with the help of netbeans 7. There's many examples and a lot of code to download.

Lee N

Very Good Coverage

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 7, 2013

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This book is very good for learning the more advanced Java EE support available in NetBeans 7. It also serves as a useful introduction to Java EE. Some of the code examples don't quite work but the errors are minimal and fairly simple to work out, plus full source code for the book can be downloaded which helps. This book will not make you a Java EE expert (for that you'll need to consult other sources like the Java tutorials from Oracle) but it is a good broad introduction to the features of Java EE.

Jack The Sausage

Good introduction

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 19, 2014

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This is a good introduction to the subject, and clear even if you're not experienced in NetBeans or JavaEE. I did find that the latest version of NetBeans has slight dialogue changes compared to the screenshots but for the most part you can work around this with no difficulty.

I recommend this book.

Kindle Customer

Very Good Book. Very Good book. I loved read this book from end to end. Will have to get more books like this

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 16, 2013

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Very Good Book. Very Good book. I loved read this book from end to end. Will have to get more books like this

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