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I read the book cover to cover and I must say this is by far the best WebLogic book I have read. It is very up-to-date (covers WLS 8.1), and it pulls all the WLS programming best practices that are scattered around a dozen or more newsgroups and web sites into a single volume. Unlike similar books that cover WLS in the context of J2EE alphabet soup, this book focuses on the following topics: web application, EJB, JMS, Security, Admin, Performance Tuning, Development and Deployment env setup, and Web Services, which represent >90% of your J2EE development needs. You will find practical info in every single chapter, and I found the discussion around entity beans, JMS, and JVM tuning exceptional. The "bigrez" sample is a miniature real world application, and the discussion on its design helps to tie the whole book together. For WebLogic beginners, don't look anywhere else - this book will get you started fast. Even for people like me who has a few WLS projects under the belt, you will come away with new information, and it also reinforces some of your hard-learned lessons.

Just a small complaints to conclude this review: I would move Chapter 13 on dev env best practices to Chapter 1, and reduce the amount of discussion on JSP. I also want to see some detailed examples on complex CMP relationships, as well as a separate and in-depth chapter on clustering that covers distributed JMS, MDB, and entity beans of various concurrency/caching startegies.

This is the best WebLogic book I have read till now. Author clearly states that this is not a beginners' reference, and I liked the book mainly because it is not; this book gets right into the meaty stuff without wasting pages and time on covering stuff that's splattered all over the internet in numerous free tutorials.

This book covers WebLogic 8.1, touches upon features specific to WebLogic (not plain old J2EE stuff) and the coverage is pretty deep. For example, coverage of weblogic-tags taglib for JSP development, or the 'APP-INF' magic folder introduced in WL8.1 for application level libraries (oh, this was like a sore thumb in the previous WL releases and still is in J2EE spec) gives insight into advantages one gets using WebLogic over other J2EE platforms (much better than other books wasting pages and time on advantage of using 'a' J2EE platform).

One of the features I loved about this book is the interspersed 'Best Practice' guides, you know reading a best practice guide by itself (like Floyd Marinesku's EJB Design Pattern) can sometimes get boring, here the best practices are put in perspective by discussing them in the right context, juxtaposing them with the problem these best practices address, along with code snippets and all, great job!

The discussion on WebLogic clusters is the best I have seen till now and the config/architecture suggestions for development and production environments are very useful.

I've already reviewed this book previously but had to comment on the reviews by the "reader from Danbury, CT".

I'm not sure what your problem is but I don't see the value in panning a book you either didn't read or understand. My only other guess is that you have some sort of other agenda.

I guess it is just common sense to ignore anonymous reviews.