Developing Java Enterprise Applications 2nd Edition by Stephen Asbury; Scott Weiner

Publisher : John Wiley & Sons, Inc
This book attempts to cover a lot of ground and it does cover the whole breadth of J2EE and more. However, somewhere along the line, it seems like that the authors were pretty busy writing but never seem to have reviewed or even proof-read the technical content.
Personally I cannot accept refering to variables as "x" in the code and "X" in your explanation of the program. As a developer, I assume you are referring to different variables here. Yeah, yeah I know Microsoft Word does that...but nah I wouldn't go there. And the two words "right" and "write" (read the authors website) in English (at least the one I know) have different meanings.
Anyways, there are some good topics that I liked especially RMI. The book does explain snippets of code, while the bulk of the source code is on the CD-ROM which is handy. I think the authors could do a lot better and I definitely was expecting more. I don't mind having this book for a secondary reference but I wouldn't add this to the list of essential books on my shelf. For the same money I think there are better books on the market.
(Madhav Lakkapragada - bartender, November 2001)
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