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Web Application Architecture: Principles, Protocols and Practices

From Wiley

Binding : Paperback
DeweyDecimalNumber : 005.12
EAN : 9780471486565
Edition : 1st
ISBN : 0471486566
Label : Wiley
Manufacturer : Wiley
NumberOfPages : 384
ProductTypeName : ABIS_BOOK
PublicationDate : 2003-10-22
Publisher : Wiley
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Summary: Missing Java EE 5
Comment: This book has a lot good information but I was disappointed that there wasn't more information about Java EE 5, EJB 3.0 and the Java Persistence API. The book only barley mentions them.
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Summary: Basic Book
Comment: This book is a good book for those with mimimal knowledge of web technologies. For the expert I would not recommend it. However it is an easy read
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Summary: Great Crossover Book
Comment: I've been writing Windows-based mutlimedia applications since Windows 95 was released. I've been looking for a good book to help the crossover to web application development, and I found that this was just the ticket. Explanations were solid and presented in a way that made experimentation easy (both from the browser and server side). Quite simply, this book served as a great jumping off point for deeper exploration into session management, security, web services (both SOAP and Rest), etc. Definitely a great introduction for folks with a software engineering background.
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Summary: good summary
Comment: I always thought Amazon search is good but I stumbled upon this book at a store. It's a useful summary, but not a reference. I particularly like the examples and the way they build up from trivial to complex. The level of detail is right. Altogether, very refreshing.
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Summary: Takes intermediate developers to the next level
Comment: This book is an ideal text for providing intermediate-level web developers with a solid grounding in architectural principles and more advanced techniques. Before going into why I like this book I do want to offer one caveat - the authors' approach is towards the Model-View-Controller paradigm, and is based on Java Standard Tag Library, Jarkata struts and Apache. These are solid elements, but if you are working in a different environment you will not appreciate this book as much.

The historical material in this book is not fluff if you approach it with the intent to gain a fuller understanding of the major components of the Internet and web. This material is rich with details about why the core web technologies developed and evolved, including design choices the pioneers made in the face of constraints. In a subtle way this part of the book is a primer on design and architecture.

What makes this book so valuable is the non-trivial application that brings this book alive. This is a refreshing change from other books that use thinly contrived snippets of code or trivial applications. The code for this application can be downloaded from the book's supporting web site, which also contains errata (thus far there are only two entries), and articles that are valuable resources with or without this book.

Overall this is one of the better books on web application design and development, and one that dives into code and technical details.