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Enterprise Java

by Written by Jeffery Savit, Sean Wilcox, Bhuvana Jayaraman - Review by Rodney Schaerer NOCCC - July 30, 1999 at 14:06:52:

The preface describes the intended audience as application developers, IS (Information Services) managers, or architects who need to know when and how to deploy Java for realistic production applications. Its purpose is to cover Java concepts, facilities, and advantages from the point of view of the system designer, system and application programmers, IT/MIS managers, and system integrators.

Jeffery Savit is a Vice President of Merrill Lynch’s Emerging Technologies Unit. Sean Wilcox is a project manager at Standard & Poor’s, and Bhuvana Jayaramen is a project manager at Merrill Lynch.

The title, Enterprise Java suggests that the book should address using Java in the enterprise setting as opposed to the single, stand-alone program environment.

The issues I see are what topics are beginning Java, intermediate Java, advanced Java, distributed Java, database Java, and finally enterprise Java. To me a book entitled Enterprise already assumes the reader knows how to program in the language, already knows elementary software architecture such as client/sever, and will focus on the enterprise aspects. I do not feel this book significantly dealt with enterprise issues with its list price and 330 pages.

This book is not an enterprise Java book, especially for developers or programmers. It may be good as an introduction to corporate computing for a beginning manager without a technical background. It is a nice overview and review for experienced IS personnel. It pools dispersed knowledge in a clean manner, but most experienced corporate computer technoweinies already have the information. Too much basics and fluff for an enterprise book. The real enterprise subjects were skipped over.

McGraw Hill Java Masters Title Copyright 1998 $44.95.



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