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Title: A Good Start, But Lacks Depth
Review: I bought this book on the strength of the Amazon reccomendations.If you don't know anything about XDoclet, or you don't like working from the online documentation, then you need this book. But if your a real world working developer who is hoping for a quick, detailed jumpstart then you will be disappointed.I feel the book starts well, but quickly becomes superficial and only addresses easy topics. For illustration, consider that entity bean relationships get less than two pages and a weak example. In comparison, "Enterprise Java Beans" by Monson-Haefel devotes a whole chapter to entity bean relationships.I feel this book would be much improved if the Blog example was more fully developed and the source was available (as O'Reilly does).As it stands, I'm still poking through the sample code provided w/XDoclet and creating small test applications to see what is generated. Too bad the book didn't answer my questions and save me some time.
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