RE: Java Client tutorials and books
RE: Java Client tutorials and books
- Subject: RE: Java Client tutorials and books
- From: "Jonathan Fleming" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 13:16:02 +0100
Title: Professional WebObjects 5.0 With Java
Publisher: Wrox
Author: Too Many To Mention, 13 in all
ISBN: 1-861004-31-1
Search http://www.wrox.com or http://www.amazon.com
This book has a little about Java Client but I would imagine that everything
else it teaches you about WebObjects would be a foundation for it. As it
says in the opening of it's chapter "Every Java Client application is at its
core a WebObjects application". I've never used Java Client myself but I've
read elsewhere that it is very powerful and under-estimated by developers.
This is the best of the two books that I know has anything substatial on it
(chapter 12, 19 pages) which gives you a a one week senario of getting a
Java Client up and running for an ecommerce company. However, there are only
five WebObjects books that I know about.
Title: WebObjects For Mac OS X
Publisher: Peachpit Press
Author: Joshua Marker
ISBN: 0-321-11549-x
This is the latest book, it's a very good reference book with lots of
helpful hints and tips included with clear visual screen shots and source
code to boot. If this book was out three years ago I'm certain it wouldn't
have taken me so long to get going with my understanding of WebObjects, but
then again I didn't even know what Java was a that time. Oh yeah, all these
books here have helped me, a complete novice, learn so much in a relatively
short space of time, and I really did not know a thing. If wasn't for this
list ironing problems out, I'd probably still be on the Construction Kit
book.
Title: WebObjects Developer's Guide
Publisher: Sams
Author: Ravi Mendis
ISBN: 0-672-32326-5
Would be a very good book if it wasn't for the untold amount of errors that
are in the examples as well as the source code of this book, but having said
that when you do hit those stumbling blocks you soon begin to learn and take
on the WebObjects frustration. The thing with this book is that it kind of
fast tracks you to where you want to go and then it halts you abruptly and
you'd be pulling your hair out for days... I can't even begin to describe
the relief and joy when you get over them. It did come with source code that
you could download from the publishers site but it may be gone now. However,
don't disspare, if anyone wants it I'll send it. I'm sure that'll be OK.
Title: WebObjects Web Application Construction Kit
Publisher: Sams
Author: George Ruzek
ISBN: 0-672-32074-6
This might have been the first one out there, it's written for version 4.5
just before the change to Java, but it still holds true to the WebObjects
priciples to date. Very good beginners book.
Title: Building WebObjects5
Publisher: Osbourne
Author: Jesse Feiler
ISBN: 0-07-213088-1
Personally I found it hard to get going with this book, but that's only
because I learn by example and need something or someone that can show me
how rather delving me deep into the concepts of a thing by academia. And
that's just what this book is about, it's very good about the way it goes
into the concepts of how things are and are meant to be. It covers
everything from the database(OpenBase) to the deployment of your app, but
don't look for hard and fast examples here, they are few and far between -
snipets, those that are leave you a little vague and you'll realise this in
retrospect when you do know a thing or two. by then though you'll understand
that it is quite an informative litte book... brrr too late. The worst part
of this book is the very shoddy take off of the Think Movies Application -
dissapointing (tut, tut, tut), but there is about 17 pages on Java Client
here in chapter 23. Again it's more about the concepts than it is about
show-how.
Chuck Hill, one of the respected heavy weights on list has a book coming out
within the next year hopfully, and I'm sure that is going to be eagarly
awaited. I'm looking forward to that. I'm sure He'll have a chaper on the
subject, but by then you'd have learn it and will probably be cursing when
you get it that if you have that book a year ago, you would have been
flying, inm sure.
Good luck anyways
Jonathan :^)
From: Ed Powell <email@hidden>
To: email@hidden
Subject: Java Client tutorials and books
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 02:59:50 -0500
Can anyone recommend a good book or place to get tutorials for developing
Java Client applications? Apple's manual is, unsurprisingly, a bit hard to
digest.
--
Ed Powell - "Meus Navis Aerius est Plena Anguillarum"
http://www.visi.com/~epowell
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