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Title: Surprising front-end centric balance
Review: I was surprised by how much material there is on the front-end of the J2EE equation. About half the book is spent on the front end with excellent chapters on JSP 2.0, JSTL, Servlets and front-end security.Attention is also paid to the back end. Chapter 11, which weighs in at 50 pages out of 900, is on EJBs and the various O/R mapping and persistence objects. The back end coverage then continues on with chapters on messaging, XML processing, and web services.This is not an all-in-one book. The coverage, with perhaps the exception of the front end, is not thorough enough to replace a full book on any one of these topics. In particular the chapter on persistence is far too brief for any thorough explanation of the topic. That being said this does act as a solid field guide to provide an end-to-end view of the landscape of J2EE development.
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