ZERO STARS. Did this book have an editor?

Total waste of money. As I started reading it, I started to notice coding mistakes everywhere. I thought I was just misunderstanding the topic but then it became clear that these are really mistakes! It is obvious that the code examples were never compiled and tested! Just incredible. Hibernate isn't an easy topic when first encountered, but even a Struts code example has a glaring error!

Any book with code examples should have zero errors in the code - we have had the technology to compile and test every code example in a text since K&R's C book and the Software Tools books in the late 70s. Typically you'll find maybe one typo or error in the prose per chapter in a decent book. I stopped counting and marking within two hours of reading in this book.

This book should be pulled by the publisher and everyone who bought a copy should be offered a written apology and their money back. My copy went out in the weekly paper recycling - I can't afford the chance that any of my engineers might borrow it from my office. I can't imagine how the authors would have put their names on this, let alone their photographs on the front cover.

I confess that I will probably never buy a book from WROX publishers again.

Other Reviews

• Full of typos
• ZERO STARS. Did this book have an editor?
• Are you kidding me?
• Worst tech manual on Hibernate to date:
• A really bad book - do not buy