Name of the book: Core Java Data Objects
Authors: Sameer Tyagi, Keiron McCammon, Michael Vorburger, and Heiko Bobzin.
Published: Sun Microsystems Inc.,
Publishing Date: Winter 2004.
City: Upper Saddle River, NJ

5=Well done! This book will be a valuable teaching and reference tool.

4=I would recommend this book to someone interested in its topic.

5=A complete reference. I would not need any additional reference on this topic.

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This is an excellent book on Java data objects for people who have worked with databases for a long time. the authors have taken the time to explain the concepts of JDO and how it can be implemented with fairly simple examples that are more real world.

the authors also explain about the security aspects in JDO that need to be considered while implementing a real world situation. they also explain the differences between JDO and JDBC for people who have worked with JDBC and ways to implement JDO.

the authors towards the end of the book explains how to explain the implementation of JDO for J2EE and enterprise solutions. they also provide tricks and tips for effective jdo implementation. a real world case study is presented for people who want to implement this solution.

I would recommend this book to anyone interested in learning java data object.

Title: Professional Jakarta Struts
Edition: 1st Edition(?)
Author: James Goodwill and Richard Hightower
City: Indianapolis, IN 46256
Publisher: Wrox Publishers, John Wiley and Sons
Published Date: Winter 2003/2004.

5=Well done! This book will be a valuable teaching and reference tool.

4=I would recommend this book to someone interested in its topic.

5=A complete reference. I would not need any additional reference on this topic.

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This is an excellent book on Jakarta Struts. Wrox publishers and the authors had done an excellent job in explaining the concepts of Jakarata struts. the book begins with servlet containers, jsps (upto 2 chapters) and how the struts fits
into the scheme of things.

the book goes into different aspects of the struts, the MVC, and the controller concepts. there are a lot of examples to explain the concepts for people of various expertise and background.

the book also shows how to debug in 2 different environments such as eclipse and Jidea. the authors have shown how to create a new application from scratch in the last chapter
and that is an excellent way to implement a Jakarta struts application.

this book is a great reference book.

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Title: Core Servlets amd Javaserver Pages
Edition: 2nd Edition
Author: Marty Hall and Larry Brown
City: Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Published Date: Fall 2003

Reviewer Name: Ravi Mahalingam
E-mail address: mravichandran@hotmail.com
Review Date: 24 Oct 2003.

Please Rate the overall value of the book from 1-5 where
5=Well done! This book will be a valuable teaching and reference tool.

Please rate the instructional value of the book from 1-5 where
4=I would recommend this book to someone interested in its topic.

Please rate the reference value of this book from 1-5 where
5=A complete reference. I would not need any additional reference on this topic.

Write a minimum of three paragraphs describing the different aspects of this book.

The author's first edition was a great reference and the second edition is a better
book addressing all aspects of servlet programming and JSP. the flows of topics is
very smooth and letting a beginner like me understand all aspects of the servlet
programming and JSP easily.

the author takes the trouble to explain all the difficult concepts of servlet
programming in the easiest possible way.

this is an excellent reference book and I am excited to recommend this book
to anyone who wants to learn and program using servlets and JSP. this will
book has found a place in my reference shelf.

the author has taken the trouble to explain integration of MVC modeling using
Servlets and JSP. there are additional chapters about implementation of
JDBC with commercial database engines such as Access, MySQL, and Oracle 9i.

this book is a great buy for the price and is a great reference book.

Please Rate the overall value of the book from 1-5:
5=Well done! This book will be a valuable teaching and reference tool.

Please rate the instructional value of the book from 1-5:
4=I would recommend this book to someone interested in its topic.

Please rate the reference value of this book from 1-5 where:
5=A complete reference. I would not need any additional reference on this topic.

This is an excellent book for beginners of Javascript. it takes simplest of the cases without boggling the minds of the readers. when I learnt javacript more than 4 years back, Ihad a hard time reading through 'verbose' books. I wish I had this book at that time.

This author has taken the time to explain the concepts in the simplests of the ways. there are adequate screen prints to highlight the results of the executed javascript code. the author explains the document object model clearly for the benefit of the beginners and also explains different ways of identifying the items in the page.

This is an excellent reference book for intermediate javascript programmers adn this book has found a place in my reference shelf and I will be glad to recommend this book to anybody interested in learning Javascript.

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Title:The Java Developer's Guide to ECLIPSE
Edition:2nd Printing
Author:Shavor, Sherry; D'Anjou, Jim; Fairbrother, Scott; Kehn, Dan; Kellerman, John, and McCarthy, Pat
City: Boston
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
Published Date: June 2003

Reviewer Name:Ravi Mahalingam
...
Review Date: 25 Aug 2003.

Please Rate the overall value of the book from 1-5 where
5=Well done! This book will be a valuable teaching and reference tool.

Please rate the instructional value of the book from 1-5 where
5=Excellent! An essential book on this topic.

Please rate the reference value of this book from 1-5 where
5=A complete reference. I would not need any additional reference on this topic.

This book is a well done book that explains all the principles and features of ECLIPSE and how it can be used for developing Java applications. ECLIPSE being a sophisticated tool needs some guide to take new users to exploit all the features of the tool.

The authors have diligently explained all the nuances of the tool and have taken the trouble to show screen prints of the tools to show how the features work. They have explained how to add external tools/use plugins etc. they have gone 1 step ahead to show how the ActiveX technology can be incorporated with the ECLIPSE tool.

this is an excellent book and I plan to have it as a part of my bookshelf. I plan to use this book to create java applications at my work place.

Please Rate the overall value of the book from 1-5 where
5=Well done! This book will be a valuable teaching and reference tool.

Please rate the instructional value of the book from 1-5 where
4=I would recommend this book to someone interested in its topic.

Please rate the reference value of this book from 1-5 where
4=This book has earned a valued place on my reference shelf.

Write a minimum of three paragraphs describing the different aspects of this book.
this book is an excellent book on java for a person with
scientific and engineering background like me. Having written
programs in FORTRAN and C, it is delight to know that someone
is out there ready to publish a book like this to dispell
myths that Java can be used for making GUI screens or writing
EJB components to be put on the server for database access etc.

After explaining the constructs of the languages in the 1st few
chapters with a scientific slant, the author takes up complicated

numerical methodss algorithm and shows java can be used for the
same.

if a person like integration, differentiation, numerical methods,
FT .. sorry fourier transformation, and is interested in learning
java, this book is a worthwhile book and a must have for your
reference shelf.

this is an excellent book and I would like to thank the author
for thinking of engineering/scientific oriented people like me.
********end of review**************

This book offers a step by step process of installing the Tomcat webserver
to Unix (primarily) and Windows servers. at every stage, the authors have
taken the time to include the information about windows operating system.

the authors have taken the time to arrange the flow of the chapters to
match the events in a real world server configuration exercise of an
apache. the book also describes the differences in the versionf of Apache
for the benefit of users.

In all, the book is good material for the not-so experienced apache users
like me.

regards
Ravi Mahalingam
Columbia, SC Java Users group.

Title: Professional JSP Tag Libraries
Author: Simon Brown
Publisher: WROX publisher Ltd.
ISBN: 1 861006 217

Reviewer Name: Ravi Mahalingam
Review Date 23 Apr 2003.

Overall Value of the book: 4
Instructional value of the book: 4
Reference value of the book: 5

Like every WROX, this book covers different aspects of tag libraries
of JSP (custom and regular) in a detailed fashion. The author Mr. Brown
has done a good job to explain the concepts of tag libraries.

the book has useful code snippets that can be used for real
world problems. the book also provides screen prints of the
actual output making it easier for the readers to find out the
result of the code.

THE author has explained how STRUTS work and has explained
it in great detail.

overall, this book is a good reference and will find a place in
my office shelf. we are in the process of developing a jsp
based user application which uses STRUTS.

Title: Java Enterprise Best Practices
First Edition December 2002
Author(s): The O'Reilly Java Authors
City: Sebastapol, CA
Publisher: O'Reilly
Published Date: December 2002.
ISBN: 6 36920 00384 7

Reviewer Name: Ravi Mahalingam
email: mravichandran@Hotmail.com
Review Date: 12 Mar 2003.

Overall value of the book:5

Instructional value of the book:4

Reference value of the book: 4

This book unlike other most books is made by Java
experts in their own field. the book assumes prior
knowledge of the topics and does not intend to take
a beginner from ignorance to knowledge.

this book is intended not for beginners but some
experts in the Java domain designing enterprise
level systems or even maintaining them for system
performance and ehancements.

The book is well written and all the potential
gotchas and the mistakes commonly done in application
design and development are outlined with appropriate
alternate solutions.

The book covers all aspects of java and ejb application
development and their best practices.

Overall, this a good book to have and will be used
by experienced java developers and the not so
experienced.

Title: Java Enterprise Best Practices
First Edition December 2002
Author(s): The O'Reilly Java Authors
City: Sebastapol, CA
Publisher: O'Reilly
Published Date: December 2002.
ISBN: 6 36920 00384 7

Reviewer Name: Ravi Mahalingam ...
Review Date: 12 Mar 2003.

Overall value of the book:5

Instructional value of the book:4

Reference value of the book: 4

This book unlike other most books is made by Java
experts in their own field. the book assumes prior
knowledge of the topics and does not intend to take
a beginner from ignorance to knowledge.

this book is intended not for beginners but some
experts in the Java domain designing enterprise
level systems or even maintaining them for system
performance and ehancements.

The book is well written and all the potential
gotchas and the mistakes commonly done in application
design and development are outlined with appropriate
alternate solutions.

The book covers all aspects of java and ejb application
development and their best practices.

Overall, this a good book to have and will be used
by experienced java developers and the not so
experienced.