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5 comments about Java for Computer Information Systems.

1. If you go and compare Mr. Staugaard's previous edition of this book to the 1999 version just read his Structured and Object-Oriented Techniques. You will see they are basically the same book. Thanks for your time.



2. I'm a teacher for introductory programming course and this book is selected as basic course book. The only star is for some ideas about programming algorithms. Otherwise the book is simply not for people starting programming. Without ANY explanation about any development environment after chapter 1 one can find a sample program and modest "edit, compile and run". Geez! How to edit? Who's the guy compile? Where to run? I should write my own instruction for all of this. Later in ch.3 author uses custom package keyboardInput without any explanation how to use it. Then he spends half of chapter 4 (before most of the basic stuff !) to talk about it. From the different places of the book you may find details that author isn't a big expert in Java, i.e. talking about data types he persistently calls them 'classes'(i.e. "assume short class" - real quotation!). Guy might not know that class Short exists, but short is not class at all. As usual book also contains a set of errors and/or misprints and the price is above average, so I'm tired to agree with students that this is not the best book :) for their course.



3. As a student who is currently using this text book I am glad I don't go to school in Canada. They must have differing ideas about what is appropriate relative to the topic at hand. My understanding of the purpose of this book is not to teach JAVA, rather, it is to teach basic Structuring Techniques INDEPENDENT of the language choosen to write in. In this capacity, the book is excellent! Languages change but classic Structuring Technique does not. This book does an excellent job of teaching control structure techniques as well as algorithm defination. Many large Universities teach control structures and allow the student to program their work in whatever language they wish. The Author chooses to introduce his readers to the hotest language on the market at this time which is JAVA. Languages change, structuring technique does not. It's that simple. I highly recommend this book to anyone desiring to learn the proper method to develop a program.



4. After reading the beginning of previous review I am also glad (s)he 'don't go to school in Canada'.But I should admit that the book is possibly the best in explanation of programming fundamentals. I couldn't find any comparable book with such big attention to programming basics. I agree with previous reviewer that knowledge of fundamentals is much more important and gives you an ability to learn any programming language faster and really understand what you should do in your programs. But if Java is selected for this course the Java content should be cleaned from a lot of errors and some stuff should be explained better. So I give the book 3 stars to further establish this mark.



5. I have used this text in an introductory programming course. I have two personal biases that make this text attractive. (1)I want a text that does not concentration on the development environment. (2)I teach in a business college; therefore, I want business examples. This text satisfies both my desires. It is not filled with menu selections and button clicks that overwhelm algorithm design. Most of its examples relate to business. As a result, my students find the book something that relates to their career choice.

   When using the text in the introductory programming course, I found the emphasis on structured design a benefit. By playing down the object-oriented aspects of Java until after the basic control structures were presented, the text gave the students an opportunity to learn to create an algorithm before they had to tackle an entire system. It is one of the few texts that did not need a supplemental algorithm design text.

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2 comments about Enterprise JavaBeans 2.1.

1. This book is aimed towards the experienced Java developer who is familiar with distributed environments, Servlets, JSPs, and JDBC and wants to get a good in-depth introduction into Enterprise JavaBeans. The book starts with an introduction to EJB technology and the EJB architecture in general. This book is translated into English and these beginning chapters seem to suffer a little bit in the translation as some of the sentences are poorly constructed. The later chapters don't have this problem however. After the introduction, the book covers each of the different types of beans (session, entity, and message) in detail with a discussion of when and how to use them. Examples of their use from both the server and client side are provided. The deployment descriptors for each type are also covered. Transactions and security are discussed with examples that help to clearly explain how these mechanisms work in EJBs. The authors then discuss some of the practical issues that arise when developing an EJB application such as performance and bean interaction. In the final chapter, the authors explain where EJB fits in with Web Services and then give a brief discussion of the standard timer service added to EJB 2.1. The authors do a good job of not just showing how to use EJBs but also explaining what it is and why you would want to use it. The level of detail makes this a good book for both developers and architects.



2. Enterprise JavaBeans 2.1 by Denninger and Peters is a basic summary of all of the major features of EJBs. It covers the typical J2EE architecture, the three types of beans, issues such as transactionality and security, and gives some examples where EJBs would be useful - all of the standard stuff such a book would be expected to contain. It would serve fairly well as an introduction to EJB concepts or as a reference.

   The book is not much more than this, though. I would have liked to have read about some of the authors' real experience with EJB's, both good and bad. What are their opinions on the high points or J2EE, as well as the shortfalls? What are some of the practical aspects that tend to trip up people and organizations who use EJBs? Every developer who has used J2EE knows it is not always easy, it is not always container- or platform-independent, and the solutions are not always the best (take, for example, CMP, especially pre-EJB 2.0). For example, this sentence from the book, while clearly an ideal espoused by Sun, is something many experienced developers have learned is not always achieved: "In the development of enterprise-related logic in Enterprise Beans the developer is freed totally from having to deal with technical system issues". Finally, based on the title of the book, I was hoping for a section on what's new in EJB 2.1, but instead found only occasional mentions of 2.1 features throughout the different sections.

   I wouldn't recommend Enterprise JavaBeans 2.1, except perhaps as a first introduction. It's too much a straightforward summary of the EJB specification that could have come straight from Sun Microsystems, and is lacking much realistic advice on EJB usage.

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5 comments about Teach Yourself Java for Macintosh in 21 Days.

1. At first, TYJin21Days appears as if it might actually make good on its promise, providing a fairly comprehensive overview to the beginning programmer. Starting at about day 15, however, the book collapses beneath its own weight, descending into an incomprehensible mess.

   Lemay seems to be so hopelessly addicted to the "21-day" paradigm that in the later chapters she begins throwing around brain-numbing concepts with abandon, assuming that the reader will assimilate them through osmosis, I suppose. Where earlier I could re-read the chapters and pick-up what I had missed, repeated readings on the most crucial concepts proved futile - and I'm no idiot. Lemay should've gone ahead and made it 30 days, and taken her time with the advanced material.

   What's more, the copy-editing on this book is abysmal. Errors are constant and ridiculously inept, making for incredible frustration. I know it had to have been rushed to market, but how many reprintings has it had by now? Even the Hayden Books website is FAR from being current on its errors.

   Unfortunately, the options for Mac-Java are sparse, so this continues to be one of the few worth attempting. In the final analysis, I'd give it a B for effort, and a D for execution. I'll think long and hard before I buy another of Lemay's books.




2. Interesting attempt but the relation of the text to the included software is abysmal. Obviously another case where the writers and programers were not in touch with reality. Overall, worthless for a relative beginner. The simple things were not explained in the least, not even for someone conversant with C.



3. Worthless, at least to a beginner. The code in the samples and on the disk don't match up, the code contradicts instructions given in the text, unexplained logical leaps are plentiful, and the copy editing is shameful considering these people are accepting money for this thing. Bad, bad, bad! Run, don't walk, as far away from this book as you can!



4. This would be a 5 star book had the version of Roaster™ provided been a full or at least usable version!



5. I got this book hoping for a good introduction to Java; I got a garbage-y book and a useless CD-ROM. First of all, the version of the software on the CD does NOT work. I wasted hours trying to relate it to the software described in the book; and it's not even the same thing!!!! If you want us to buy a full version of a compiler, FINE...but please stick to what's on the CD, otherwise the whole damn thing is useless. I went out and got J++ 6.0 and the J++ Programmer's Guide (both from Microsoft) instead, and it is ten million times better. Don't waste your money on this book; in this case, go with Microsoft.

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