1 comments about Starting Out with Java Alternate Edition.

1. This book is the easiest book i have ever had to read for a class. Not only does Tony explain everything very well, he makes java fun to learn. The explanations are very clear and there are so many examples and practice problems to learn from. I would recommend this book to anybody that has any interest in learning java.

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1 comments about Ordinary and Partial Differential Equation Routines in C, C++, Fortran, Java, Maple, and MATLAB.

1. You can't do much better than rely on Professor Schiesser and his colleagues for clear and reliable advice on solving ODEs and PDEs. This book contains well-tested codes that are both computationally efficient and robust. I have already solved some thorny problems quite quickly, and even subjected the codes to some pathological cases with good results. The code documentation is straightforward and easily understood. I would recommend this to all serious users.

5 comments about JavaServer Pages: Your Visual Blueprint to Designing Dynamic Content with JSP.

1. I read all 5 reviews and I agree with them in what they all are saying. I loved the quick reference book style and this book explained things in more detail than Java Server Pages from Scratch. Its a great quick reference that won't get you bogged down on the details of mastering each topic just yet. You will need another JSP book after you read this one. This is a good intro book. I do think this book is introductory level if you have some prior web programming experience in another other than Java so that you are atleast familiar with setting up servers, etc. If not than I see why you thought this book was advanced. I am greatful the authors wrote this book in that it really helped me break through the understanding of this complex language.



2. I've learned a lot from this book as a beginner.For a short time you can learn the basics of jsp.But this book is not for professionals.But for beginners I gave it 5 stars.



3. The 'beginners' are not only the readers of this book, but also the auther & technical support. As other books they've published, it's not for 'beginners'. It's better to use SUN's wesite (which they seem to refer every time they receive questions from readers) than to buy this book.



4. It's not for beginners. You will need other books to understand it. Most pages are too basic, and it suddenly introduces higher level stuff from nowhere.... The technical support will refer you ... - just use the website instead!



5. Like all the other books in its series, this book is simple and easy to follow. It starts with a brief introduction to Java programming before diving into JSP material. The topics that it covers include: using variables, creating and handling forms, dealing with cookies, adding javabeans, interfacing databases, error handling, custom tags, file handling and servlets.
   However, it covers each topic ever so briefly, often ignoring critical details that would leave you unable to make your page display at all! For example, in the Javabeans section, the book tells me to look up my web server for where I store Javabeans. Generally, this book follows a narrow track of possibilities and is best utilized as a throw-away training manual.

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5 comments about The Waite Group's Java 1.2 How-To (Sams How-To).

1. If you want to practice JAVA, this is it !! basic Java books I recommend: 'Java Software Solutions', 'Just Java' , Data Structures & Algorithms in Java ......and then focus on the subject interesting to you..



2. Not just a simple how-to book that presents only one or two lines of syntax. You will learn how to manipulate your java programming skills to put together a working program. Here is just an example of the how-to question from the book: Problem: I'd like to draw lines to the screen and be able to plot a mathematical function like the sine curve. I also want to plot both x and y axes....How do I draw these lines? The author then presents the solution to the problem in a simple but fully working program.



3. This is not a bad book, and perhaps lives up to its "How-To" title for a number of beginners questions. However, little depth is given beyond simple "do this, do that" answers in the form of fairly long examples.

   Much more useful would be short, to-the-point discussions about the problem, the important issues to think about when facing such a problem, and a clear, concise example.

   The inclusion of nearly 200 pages of a one sentence description of the JDK 1.2 API is fairly pointless. Coupled with illegible text screen dumps of grey text on a black background in a figure of about 1.5in by 4in, I have to recommend buying a different book.




4. I used to be a C/C++ guy :) who wanted to learn Java. I know about algorithms, OOP, structures, blah-blah-blah. I don't need to be told what += does, and what an if-statement is. I just wanted to learn a new language, and this book does a great job in running (not walking) you through some simple applications and applets. It assumes you can get and install the JDK yourself. If you're a programmer who wants to start learning Java, this book works great. Unfortunately, since it makes Java learning so easy, you'll quickly out-grow it. I now need a more thorough book, 'cos now I wanna re-write everything at work in Java! :)



5. This book is very useful to me. As a JAVA programmer i found this a worth buying book. Covers lot of interested topics ranging from intermediate to advanced topics. The author discussed most of the day-to-day java practical problems in a nice way. I thank the author for giving this excellent book for a Java programmer in a very reasonable price.

3 comments about Advanced Programming for the Java 2 Platform.

1. This book does a good job to show how different technologies are used in the auction application. I would advise the readers to go through a little bit of JDBC and EJB on the web at the sun website and also this book is available on the web. The site also has pointers to RMI-IIOP etc.



2. There are lots of books on enterprise applications but this book has lots of information that I haven't found in any others.

   The chapters on CORBA, printing, security and debugging are excellent and I like the way it covers one application throughout the book.




3. I like the content on Chapter 2 and 3 with good examples on EJBs, especially on CMP and BMP EntityBeans. It also has good coverage on the use of transaction management in both CMP and BMP environment. If you have fundamental JDBC/EJBs knowledge, you will enjoy reading this book.

   Chapter 4 has good introduction on distributed computing regarding RMI/IIOP/Corba plus the JNDI object lookup and the sub-system data marshaling mechanism.

   Finally, Chapter 7 and 8 provides some insight with regard to debugging and performance tuning that is quite helpful in Java programming.

5 comments about Logging in Java with the JDK 1.4 Logging API and Apache log4j.

1. As a developer looking for a more detailed reference/guide to technical usage and programming practices, this book falls short. My focus was log4j, and I found that most of the information is freely available from apache. No real value was added here. I expected at least an in depth compare-contrast between log4j and jdk logging, but this section was very terse. What would be a nice add would be a technical reference that would be one stop shop for syntax. The book didn't even provide a PatternLayout key of codes for logging items, that would be useful.

   What we really need is a practical bridge between javadocs and this book, which is a high level academic overview.

   I should have just gotten "The complete log4j manual", but I thought this might have been more extensive. I was wrong.




2. I bought this book based on the review of Thomas Paul, who has supposedly read it. If he had read this book then he would still be suffering migranes like I am. Without a doubt the worse book on logging I have read. I really wanted to get into this book and write some of my own logging programs. My advice to anyone who wants to do the same is to go to the Jakarta website where they have much better documentation and its free! Save your money. don't buy this book unless you like to read to help you sleep.



3. This book really helped me in terms of creating a logging strategy for the projects in my company. The author gives a very smooth ride through the different features of both the Logging APIs. Also it gives you ideas about how to extend the framework. Overall, I am very impressed with the book. The docs in the Apache website can be a starter but this book is required to decide a logging strategy for the organisation.

   Thanks to the author

   Pauline




4. This book does an excellent job to readers like me at intermediate level of programming. Step by step guide on both the logging APIS was good although I settled for Log4j finally. I was a bit surprised to see this book got a one star review from someone. This book certainly does better than that. Ihave not read the complete log4j manual (it is out of stock mostly) but apart from that I could not find any other material which does a better job!! My thanks to the author.
   
   The only reason it is a 4 star to me is that there can be more on practical application of logging such as in EJB and all.



5. I really *wanted* this book to be an excellent logging book, because I would benefit by such a book. More than that, I would like to be able to (figuratively) throw a good logging book at developers needing one. While possessed of the necessary physical characteristics to do some damage when thrown, the low quality of the content of this book makes it unsuitable for chucking at developers needing logging guidance.
   
   The prose is difficult to follow, the examples not-quite-lucid, the editing noticeably poor. The advice and analysis may not have ever made a lot of sense, but certainly by today's logging standards is off-base. (Treatment of Commons Logging is barely there, despite it being a prevalent logging framework API binding layer. Treatment of alternatives to Log4J addressing some of its classloader complexity is nonexistent. Logging considerations in application containers is absent.)
   
   As much as I despise the pay-for-documentation model of monetizing open source, I have no alternative but to recommend that persons looking for a logging book purchase the log4j PDF, which is more comprehensive, more useful, and better edited than this unhelpful little volume. The log4j PDF largely treats no topics other than log4j, but it treats log4j very effectively. The book reviewed here attempts and fails to treat a broader range of topics.

1 comments about Object-Oriented Application Development Using Java.

1. Consiglio questo libro a chi sta affrontando per la prima volta l'approccio oop allo sviluppo di applicazioni.
   
   Gli argomenti sono spiegati bene, ma ho trovato troppa superficialita' in alcuni passaggi. Non e' un libro per chi ha gia' una discreta conoscenza dell'oop.