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Title: not for serious engineers
Review: If you ever worked in software engineering you will really regret buying this book. It looked to me like this book was oriented to the "Ididot's Guide To ... " readers who want to be 'Enterprise Developers' in 24 hours. Take for example their explanation of how JSPs are deployed in the Tomcat server:"1. Create a new Web application directory in Tomcat's webapps directory; call it basic-jsp.2. Create a subdirectory called WEB-INF in the basic-jsp directory.3. Copy Listing 5.1 into a file called date.jsp ...4. stop and restart Tomcat ..."That's it! See, to deploy any JSP in Tomcat you just have to copy Listin5.1 into date.jsp file and put it into the basic-jsp directory!Basically, this book tries to demonstrate how to develop enterprise applications on pretty weak examples, and this does not help you learn how to do these tasks in a generic manner.
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