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Title: A specification Digest
Review: For me the book had little value. I would have been interested if it had offered some insight and/or examples into ways to set up a distributed system ( jms servers on two systems ) using various protocols. The examples and configurations discussed were the sames as those you would find at javasoft; nothing beyond a star configuration. JNDI is also a very important aspect of the JMS solution which was only thinly covered.There seems to be a whole series of these kind of books comming out of O'Reilly. Books that are similarly disappointing are the book on threads, beans and JDBC. Again each of these books fail to take the topic beyond the specification. O'Reilly does have some very fine books, especially the Nutshell books, but some just don't have value.
