Extension Books

The book lists a compendium of institutions which grant online degrees.
Each school generally has an association with a national or international
consortia responsible for authenticating the degree content of member
institutions.

Examples of online engineering school programs are:
o Rochester Institute of Technology
o Colorado State University
o Arizona State University
o University of Illinois at Chicago

Examples of school programs in computers and information systems are:
o Algonquin College
o City College
o Baker College
o Champlain College
o Regis University
o NYU
o Strayer University

This book would be a good acquisition for anyone interested in attending
an online institution.

Hardly a "top-notch" directory, this book is disappointing in so many ways. It's an obvious attempt to cash in on a popular topic. The information only vaguely represents what is available in distance learning today. Much of the book seems to be a "cut and paste" exercise on the few schools the authors (who obviously were sleeping at their desks during that Research 101 class) want to endorse or feel they have to include for no particular reason. Many important ground breaking schools like Excelsior College and Charter Oak are completely ignored. The authors might also be interested to know about some recent innovations in books like a "table of contents" and an "index." Readers seem to find these helpful. My personal recommendation is Bears' Guide to Earning Degrees by Distance Learning by John Bear. It's been continually revised for the last 25 years and is a comprehensive guide to distance education. I expect to see this one in the outside bargain bin for 25 cents real soon!

The book is not comprehensive. It omits many institutions and majors. Do not recommend.

This book helped me alot. It seems to think of every degree possible and let you know which programs are accredited and what to stay away from. Gives you the schools and what they offer. Also help with financial aid.

This is a useful book, but a lot of improvement is needed. A table of contents would have been very helpful, or, at least, the list of colleges in the back could have been accompanied by page numbers. That was a pretty silly oversight.

More importantly, I've been researching about thirty business administration programs and only about a third of them are listed in this book. The programs are well-publicized on sites like WWW.ClassesUSA.Com and (I'm fairly certain) all accredited. The problem is that if you want answers to questions without giving the schools your home phone number, you really need a book like this. Since new programs start all the time this book is really way out-of-date even if it's only from 2000. Still it does provide phone numbers that are often hard to find on the schools' websites and the entries often list sample course titles and program requirements. Hopefully, an improved and updated edition is forthcoming.

The author looks at JMX from the perspective of IT operations management as well as software developerment. The chapter covering the history of management specifications and technologies makes this book worth the price just on those merits alone.

I wasn't completely new to JMX when I picked up this book. Yet, I felt uncomfortable with how fast the author dove into details that would be relevant to someone who's about to write a JMX implementation, not to a regular user of the technology.

The book's structure is also a bit inconsistent, in my opinion. For example, the author jumps into describing the history and patterns of distributed management system design in chapter 5 -- after two introductory chapters and two very code-focused chapters.

As an advanced manual to itty bitty details of how connectors etc. are implemented, this book is excellent. It's too bad that the back cover doesn't give any indication of this focus. If you're looking for a guide to learn or "just" use JMX, I'd suggest looking elsewhere.

The main problem with this books is its lack of concepts.
It tries to delve direcly into code. But then the code is also very poorly written. None of the code is written to explain the concept.
It feels more like the author cut pasted it from somewhere else.
Some of the concepts - like relationships and roles - leave one wondering with the question, whether the author himself has understood them properly.

A few years ago, JMX emerged as a bright new idea in the Java world. It was crafted as a 3 level structure, as Hanson explains. The lowest being the instrumentation, populated with MBeans that map to resources of some kind, hardware or software. Above these is the agent level and then distributed services.

The book goes into lots of detail about how to fill these levels. So that distributed systems might be made that control resources scattered across the Internet. All this has given rise to startups, often of a very specialised nature, like Intersperse, that make such applications.

However, it's been over a year since this book came out. A countervailing trend seems to have emerged. As Web Services have been studied, the Web Services Description Language was made and its limitations discovered. So Business Process Execution Language has recently arisen to describe business logic, controlling loosely coupled distributed Web Services. So there is competition between JMX and BPEL/WSDL, with the latter nudging ahead. Yes, there are differences in scope. But they overlap enough in the crucial idea of distributed business logic.

So consider whether you want to go ahead with this book or try BPEL/WSDL.

This book does not offer many original or insightful ideas about JMX. In fact, a good portion of the book is copied and pasted from the JSR-160 specification. I recommend downloading that and reading it if you're interested in JMX Remoting. The best book on JMX (although a bit dated) is still by Fleury & Lindfors.

This book was a great improvement over its previous edition. I am not sure why other would give it a bad review just because it is available online. I like having the real book next to me as I am doing my development. This is one of the better technical books I have encountered.

I agree completly with the comments above, a large portion of this book is just a reprint of pdf's included with the package (Typos and All). It is difficult to find good documentation on the process of developing dreamweaver extensions and this book does not go very far in rectifying that problem. Laura Gutman's book on the same subject is a little older, but at least it is not a reprint.

This book was purchased with the belief that in this book was something extra or to be read in addition to their online documentation. Under the book description you can see it says that it includes the following books from the Macromedia online documentation. In reality, this book doesn't include them - but contains them. That's all you get here. The freely available PDF files in a book format with nothing added and nothing removed. A disappointment from a company like Macromedia that they wouldn't offer further information on the developing process for extending one of their flagship products.

This book must be one of the worst chemistry books I have ever had the pleasure of possessing. It explains absolutely nothing and leaves you wondering what every sentence is trying to say. I had this book as my school book for two years and nooooooooooo way is it helpful in the remotest sence of the word. Happy reading!

This is a well thought out and considered chemistry textbook aimed at British students aged 14 to 16. There are a number of ideas that are thoroughly considered with students without it ever getting too wordy. The text is usually broken down into 'bite-sized' chunks and each page usually has a number of pictures on it. It probably wouldn't be suited to the lower end of the ability range (its too wordy of that) but for a middle to upper abbility student, this is a pretty decent taxtbook.

This book is not a reference on all the features of Struts it is a practical guide for how to use Struts effectively in your web application. The book has many valuable labs including labs on validation, tiles, stress testing and master detail. I found the book to very usefull.

This book sets forth some pretty heady stuff in the architecture arena. What I liked most is the integration of STRUTS with database architecture - something that sets this book apart from all the other books on STRUTS and J2EE that just set forth the programming function calls. All in all, a must have!

When I got this book, I had no J2EE development environment on my laptop. This book describes all the tools you should download. The tools recommended are worthwhile, but not presented in a way you can easily use. You have to do some work. However, given that I could not find alternative sources of information in print, it did give me a good understanding of what Struts can do.

Since writing this review, another book came on the market called Mastering Jakarta Struts by James Goodwill. I gave that book a 5 star review. That one is a VERY worthwhile Struts resource.

If you have experience codeing webApps, and enjoy hand on code, this is the book. If you like books that are a reprint of JavaDocs (or don't know what JavaDocs are) this is not the book for you.

What some reviewers have not done is download the entire source code ..., as the book tells you to. The source code shows Master Detail CRUD processing using MVC, Struts Tiles, Struts Validator, DAO design pattern implemented, Java Security, Options Types, etc. etc.
Best source code you would ever see implemented. Enough theory books or JavaDoc books, show me your practical and realistic source code!

I was one of the first ones to buy this book. I had finnished an application with Struts. I wanted to have a deeper understanding so I bought this book. What a fiasco, like somebody already mention one of the worst technical books.

It is hard to follow, talks more about databases than Struts. Next time I would not rush to buy a book and just wait for the reviews.

This book is unfortunately not about literary theory or fiction writing technique or anything of the sort; instead it is about Christianity.

THIS BOOK IS VERY HARD TO REMEMBER THE CHARACTER'S NAMES. THE AUTHOR'S WRITING IS EASY TO READ AND HAS A SIMPLE KIND OF WRITING.

This is a straightforward, easy to understand, basic primer on the hatching of eggs. However, you are not going to get all the information you need from this 4 page bulletin. For example, it only addresses poultry/fowl, so don't look to it for breeding reptiles. Also, for artificial incubation of birds. there is no species specific information such as temperature requirements. ONE BIG CAVEAT: This is not a book. It is a bulletin that is available to download for free or for purchase @ $.50. Just google the title. That's what I did.

This is a fast-paced book that describes interesting characters and scenes, with plenty of action. As it runs its course, the events continue to crescendo, then, when the reader is expecting the most, everything collapses. McHugh has left me feeling as if I've been taken -- the ending is so terribly slipshod and trite that it mocks any literate person. What a disappointment after so much anticipation.

I was offended personally by this book. It is written for a college-level student but is worded as if it is for a middle school aged student. I was most offended, however, about the racist remarks implied by the author. He tends to overexaggerate and implies that caucasions are inferior and barbaric. It is a totally unbalanced book in the minority area. But, it does provide interesting case studies and overviews a wide variety of social work feilds of practice.