J2EE¿ Connector Architecture and Enterprise Application Integration (Java Series)

Did you enjoy the lucidity of the Java Tutorial? Thrill to the clarity of the Java Tutorial Continued? Exalt at the brilliance of the Java Swing Tutorial? Then forget this one!Whereas those earlier books excelled in their plain-speaking clarity, this one piles on the shovel-load of jargon right from the start. Kathy Walrath writes the foreword, but there the connection ends, unfortunately. Perhaps to reinforce this, the book helpfully provides a jargon glossary.Add to this the fact that the book covers Java Sever Pages (JSP) yet Apache Tomcat fails to appear in its index, nor does JSTL get a mention, and you get a book that you can safely ignore.A very disappointing addition to the Tutorial series. I get the impression that this is a rough draft of the book rather than a finished product. Its chapters are merely prefaces to their subject matter.Ed: Much improved in later versions.

I bought this because knowing about JCA is part of the architects exam.The first 50 pages are particularly slow goiing installing the virtues of JCA, rather than getting down to some decent examples. Too much of a sales pitch. Things picked up a bit from here. But still not that impressive.It's so out of date, I'd look for the PDFs on the Sun website.To put things into context this was published in 2001 and things have moved on much since this time. J2EE 1.3 was considered to be the newest thing (ch15) JCA 2.0. EJB3 is out and this book is stuck back in the early EJB era.I'd recommend looking at the Java EE 5 tutorial Chapter 35 instead.

As expected