Impressive in its uniformly thorough coverage. An incredibly valuable book!
The book Core J2EE Patterns provides incredible value by offering insight after insight into the J2EE architecture. I don't have the first edition of this book and have read the second edition only, and it's truly a book worth owning if you're doing any sort of J2EE-based development.
Core J2EE Patterns is especially impressive in the thoroughness with which it covers the essential aspects of the J2EE architecture. The experience of the authors shines through the pages. And I fully agree with the reviewer who notes that "the strategies in this book will make your applications more robust, make you more productive, and make your code easier to understand and maintain." Very true, especially the noted point about making your code easier to understand and maintain!
Another useful book in the same category as Core J2EE Patterns (and well worth looking into) is Martin Fowler's book entitled "Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture". The Fowler book paints the landscape of enterprise application architecture with broader strokes than does Core J2EE Patterns; that, of course, is to be expected, as implied by the titles of the two books.
In sum, if you're doing any sort of J2EE-based development, you owe it to yourself to get a copy of Core J2EE Patterns!
The title should be: "Stop reinventing the wheel"
When we learn and start programming we're attempted to write code to solve any problem without find to know if that is the best way. No matter if the code is about 3,000 or 300 lines, which matter is if you could solve the customer's problem. But a lot of problems were solved by experienced programmers and software architects and they have documented these problems for us. So, if somebody wrote tested-good-code, why we'll "reinvent the wheel"? My opinion is: study the progrmming language, try to write and solve a lot of problemns, and than study this book. After read you'll have much more skills to solve problems in shorter time. I recommend for intermediate through advanced programmers.
keep this book handy
This book should be on the desk of every J2EE architect. Not sure if some of the design patterns still apply for JEE5. We'll just have to see in the next edition.
Solid book on Java Enterprise architecture
It is a MUST-HAVE J2EE architect/developer book. It provides the most important and relevant patterns in J2EE design and development based on Gang of Four. The architecture guidance and best practices described are very valuable.
This book needs an update for Java EE 5. Not sure, those updates are posted on their web site.
A must have for J2EE architects
I bought this book for preparing for SUn Certfied Enterprise Architect assignment( part II). I am very happy with this book. It gives examples for all J2EE patterns in a very lucid way and this book has helped me a lot.
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