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I recently met Scott Davis at a software conference. Since we both had new books in our hands, we traded books. I gave Scott a copy of Ship It (which he was kind enough to review) and he gave me a copy of JBoss at Work. Every time I pick this book up I find myself still reading it half an hour later. It's a very easy book to read and a hard book to put down. :)
Let me start by addressing my comment about the naming of the book. The name doesn't begin to do justice to the breadth of the topics in this book. From the title, I expected this to be a book on how to use JBoss. While the book does cover JBoss very well, it does much more as well.
Many people have complained about the size of the Java stack. This book gives you the introduction you need to the entire stack. Starting with Java and Ant, it takes you through cascading style sheets, JSPs, servlets, EJBs and finally into web services. It even gives you some JDBC and Hibernate.
They also provide you with practical tips and examples as they go. For example...
A sidebar on how to enable SSL in JBoss.
A brief XDoclet introduction
A heads up on what version of Axis you need with a 1.5 JDK (as opposed to a 1.4 JDK).
In the first chapter they said they kept hearing "I don't wan to be an expert in it. I just want to make it work." That's what they've delivered. They don't take you into the plumbing of Hibernate or JBoss. They give you what you need to use Hibernate and JBoss and be productive. And many times that's all we need.
This is the best book I've read for providing an end-to-end introduction to the web services space, including the technologies that web services utilize. Also, they make a point of using freely available tools for every example. This is a book you can buy and then follow the examples at home without buying any extra software.
Are you planning on moving into the Java web services space? Then I suggest you get a copy of this book and read it first.
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