Example agita

The book relies on examples to make their point, but few examples are illustrated in the book. It relies rely on the included CD for source code. If you don't see the source, you won't understand the book.

If that wasn't bad enough, the examples require the Sun Application server to see the code and behavior. I've been muscling the examples into Eclipse and Tomcat to view, which works, but it has been a big hassle when I really want to learn the concepts. It is a barrier to learning and frustrating when the book depends on the examples to communicate the concepts. It takes too long this way.

You won't like this book if you need the code samples for comprehension (you will).
You won't like this book unless you are already familiar with the Sun App Server.
You won't like this book if you are looking for a reference source when you are through.
You won't like this book unless you want a high level overview of EVERY J2EE technology in 1500 pages, including XML, DOM, XSLT, JAX-RPC, SOAP, Servlets, JSP pages, JSP documents, tag libraries, JSF, Internationaliztion, Beans, Connections, and JMS.

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• Example agita
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