General Overview of Agile Java Development

I felt like the book basically defines terminology and gives a broad overview of the three technologies. I agree with the reviews that said he tried to do too much, in this book. One solution would have been to drop the Eclipse section, thus giving him more space to write about Hibernate and Spring. Besides everything about Eclipse is well documented, for free. I also agree with the reviews that did not like his writing style. I feel that when I am just begining to learn about something new, I don't want to read about all of the exceptions. Only after I know the basics, would the exceptions be helpfull. However, I did get enough general information to begin learning Hibernate and Spring, through other books. That in combination with the fact that the book was heavily discounted, enabled me to feel like I didn't do too bad. I am afraid if I would have paid full price I might have dropped the rating to one star. The cost benefit ratio would have been different.

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