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Title: Examples don't work
Review: I was very disappointed with the quality control and scope of this book. It basically takes you through examples of deploying servlet, JSP, Stateless and Stateful session beans, BMP and CMP Entity beans, and Message-driven beans together with some ancillary technologies such as JTA.Good as far as it goes, except that it focusses far too much on the generic rather than the specific issues of using these on Weblogic, which is why people will be buying this book!The unforgiveible thing about this book is twofold. The examples are filled with mistakes, and the publisher has no complaint or erratta mechanism at all. They have a 'contact Sams' link on their website but as far as I can tell it's for the order department! Mistakes are forgivable in any book given that there is a reasonably speedy mechanism for getting corrections out, but Sams seems to believe that the transaction ends once they have your money. After that you are on your own. Which is fine if it works.
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