JBuilder Developer's Guide provides comprehensive coverage of JBuilder from the practitioner's viewpoint. The authors develop a consolidated application throughout the chapters, allowing conceptual cohesion and illustrating the use of JBuilder to build 'real-world' applications. The examples can be compiled and run under JBuilder Personal edition, a free edition of JBuilder. JBuilder Developer's Guide is not version specific but explains the latest JBuilder 6, 7, and 8 features such as enterprise J2EE application development, CORBA, SOAP, XML tools, Enterprise JavaBeans, JavaServer Pages/Servlets, and JavaBeans technology. JBuilder repeatedly wins "developer's choice" awards as the best visual tool for developing Java applications.
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
So So book but not a lot of competition I have never seen a book which so often would reference a topic or word or idea that it goes on to explain LATER in the book or section. Weird. It does seem comprehensive but not a easy read or anything. I have read better. I am glad, though, that it is NOT JBuilder specific because I am just learning JAVA and it is good to have JAVA information rather than just JBuilder interface information.
Well written, but not JBuilder-centric The book's stated audience is intermediate to advanced level Java programmers, yet 75 percent of the book is an introductory tutorial on how to write Java applications, not how to use JBuilder. The first 200 pages were JBuilder-specific, well written, and they got me up to speed quickly with using the enterprise edition. The rest of the book was not at all helpful - I bought the book to learn to use JBuilder effectively, and learn some tips and tricks from those who have been using it for some years, not... more info
Lots of good stuff I was able to use a couple of the pieces of the code in the project I was working on - thanks it saved me lots of time.
Found the EJB Chapter Useful I was able to use many of the design guidelines in the EJB chapters. I found them useful out-of-the-box. The sample code showed me how to implement it. I would like to see more pattern implementations within this book.
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