Title: Very poorly designed & written
Product review: This book attempts to fit programmers in the same literary mold as end users of applications. Very poorly written, it seems to be aimed at simply showing off the Visual J++/WFC API, without giving readers a sense of the basic steps associated with the subjects it covers. Code examples are extremely confusing, because they don't follow Java coding conventions, and they don't contain the function or class wrappers. This leads the reader to wonder whether or not to include the code automatically generated by the Visual J++ environment.I use Visual J++ 6.0 at work every day. It's a great tool (even though it DOES bastardize the Java platform), and this book is simply a marketing tool designed to trumpet the product's features without giving much in the way of information. It's funny: Microsoft used to include this type of propaganda with its products. Now we have to pay for it!
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