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  • 2 of 2 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    andy-T

    5 Stars Captain Kirk would have approved 22/02/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Very good introduction / reference

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Lacks examples

    This is the third of a series of three books covering Java 2 1.2 and 1.3 in a very short number of pages. The book starts with chapters explaining the concepts in brief (with very few examples) and then the majority of the book is a reference guide to the libraries. In case you're wondering, the definition of enterprise when referring to Java, is the technology needed to make the kind of applications used by large enterprises, ie. distributed ones Contents are: JDBC (the database stuff), RMI (the remote method access stuff), IDL (the CORBA stuff), Servlets (the servlets stuff), JNDI (the ... more
  • 4 of 4 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 1 crazynightwalker

    Member since 23/07/2012

    Reviews written: 3

    4 Stars How Java Enterprise in a Nutshell helped me 23/07/2012
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Learning the basics, readability, usefulness

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Sometimes boring sentences, not too deep insight on technologies

    I remember a few months ago as I decided to get started with Java since I was programming a whole lot of other languages, but never Java. Since I somehow knew about O'Reilly books being easy to understand and helpful I decided to go for the "Java Enterprise in a Nutshell". Actually, I got the first edition of the book. I was amazed how understandable the book is at first glance but then I realized it has some boring sentences as well, which I would've cut out if I was the author. Anyway, taking into consideration that some of us have a slower understanding of things, maybe it was only me not ... more
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