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Title: Not a business case!
Review: The title is misleading as the book fails to present a business case for the use of JAVA. Unless you work for IBM, you will find the numerous references to the AS/400e as annoying as the missing reference to the fact that SUN, not IBM, is the driving force behind JAVA. The book is repetitive and for a topic that begs the use of graphical illustrations it falls short with only two on pages 135 and 153. The author is clearly knowledgeable about information technology but seems to try too hard to make the book funny and oversimplifies many of the analogues examples. On occasion offensive, irrelevant, and condescending examples are used - ex. p. 26 on "trophy spouses"; p. 109-111 "American Revolution"; and p. 121 "I fired the bookkeeper."
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