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JBoss 4.0 - The Official Guide Review by Scott
Focus isn't steady; is not kept on conveying how to use JBoss.
As another reviewer pointed out, this book has a hard time staying in control of the focus... there is a half effort attempt at showing how to use JBoss in a developer oriented light. Much of the book is focused on what the author is familiar with and is enjoyable to him -- writing, adding to, and building upon JBoss.
Unfortunately, somewhere between the current timeframe and back when the creating of JBoss to engender an environment that makes the development process faster and easier, it feels as if a lot of the folks 'in charge' (e.g. the authors] at JBoss don't hide the sarcasm when someone asks a question that person asking could have known the answer if they have read every post in every forum, and every page of the thousands of pages of documentation.
The Java Tutorial with some topics beginning by telling the reader to make sure they know how to use XYZ before starting the current chapter, and in XYZ there is a reference to something else, which completes the loop... that's always been frustrating.
But this is worse.
This book is just an extension of that. Whether it's written or not, there is without a doubt a thought in the writers' minds that this book is helpful for someone who would just learn JBoss first.
There is also the tendency to believe that if someone is looking for help in JBoss, that they also have the desire, time, and inclination to take part in the writing of documentation, helping with the design of the code, etc... and again, no doubt this book just hammers this idea home.
It may be a fun and great thing to participate in building upon JBoss, and for those who enjoy it and want to do so, by all means do so... but not everyone who buys a JBoss book or visits the website has any goal other than getting the environment running so it could be used for a customer.