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The main problem I find in this book is that Edwards uses an example, and then to build upon it adding more functionality, extends it...again and again etc. You are left with a confusing hierarchy of classes.
So, if you want to jump in, find out which classes are needed to build clients and services, and get to it, anything by this author is not worth your time.
You are either forced to use a hierarchy like he does ( which is a bad idea ) or back track through every one of is classes to find out what functionality you want.
The Wrox book on Jini might be the best book around.

The only reason I even gave it 2 stars was because if you do want to learn about the lower level/ non utility classes and how they work the first few chapters are ok for this.

Also, god forbid you have a question for the author...don't expect a response.

This book looks like it was rushed into publication. The example code is formatted incorrectly in every example and much of the text is straight out of Edwards' "Core Jini" (a better book but somewhat outdated). I also don't like Edwards' informal style of writing. The text is peppered with colloquialisms and redundancy and is generally not concise. He explains the one to four page code chunks awkwardly in text before or after the code rather than provide useful comments in the code. The comments that are in the code are sometimes obvious like documenting a function "addRates" as "adds a new currency exchange rate". I hope Edwards is writing a better book for Jini 1.2. Keith, if you are, let me know and I'll help you with that pesky English.

If you learn better from an example than from a dry reference, this book will be a great way to get into Jini.

It has little by the way of background explanation or reference material, but the example code (and the instructions on installing, configuring and running the various parts of Jini) are comprehensive and detailed, building into two interesting case studies - a chat system and a distributed remote storage system demonsrating all the Jini features.

For discussion, hints, tips and experience get "Core Jini". For a reference get "Jini in a Nutshell". For the best and most interesting examples, get this book.

I have read many Oracle books, especially Oracle developer
books and this book is a great disappointment.

Mr. Hotka is a great writer in his other books, but he presents nothing new in this book, except advertisement for TOAD, I use TOAD everyday in my development and DBA work but most users new to Oracle have never heard of TOAD.

The books should have focused on what the title suggests. Oracle developer by examples, and should have presented clear examples for new users to understand.

This book jumps from into to Oracle SQL to Oracle developer6i without clear examples and when the examples are presented, most of them don't work!

A major rewrite of this book is in order.

Don't waste your money on this one.

If you are looking for Oracle Developer books for beginner, I recommend the following books.

1. Forms Developer's Handbook by: Albert Lulushi

2. Oracle Developer Starter Kit by: Robert Muller

3. Oracle Forms Developer (The Complete Training Course) by: Benjamin Rosenweig

4. Oracle Forms Interactive Workbook by: Baman Motivala.

These books are available here at Amazon.com. I have read all of these books and they are great for those new to Oracle forms developer.

I am planning on reading Mr. Hotka's book about Oracle 9i. However, I am in the process of finishing Oracle 8i from Scratch which is also an other book by Mr. Hotka. I needed to run some sql scripts that are no longer abvailable on the press house of Oracle 8i, so I thought to myself, I'll send an email to Mr. Hotka as a last resort before I go into the trouble of writing these lengthy scripts. Honstley speaking, I really did not think that Mr. Hotka will get back to me or I will ever hear from him. To my surprise, few hours later I found a message from Mr. Hotka where he directed me to his own website where I was able to download the scripts I needed.
Well to me, that shows alot of integrity and commitment to his readers. It is exactly what a reader needs when he is looking for new source of knowledge. I have to say that the flow of information and the way of explaining things is very easy to follow that makes his books a very good tool to learn about new technologies and acquire advanced skills.

Riyad Naser

Hi,

I wanted to reply to George and the other person who took their time to review my latest book. This book has sold well and it is simply a shame that these individuals chose to publicly flame me rather than contact me with any issues they were having.

The examples DO work...how do you think I was able to create the illustrations for the book? My only comment is that Oracle now has a newer version of forms available but these examples do work.

The book has an excellent working example of PSP, Java, and XML in building websites that interact with the Oracle database. I use these exact code examples in my many user group speaking engagements (I do live demonstrations using these examples). These are probably the strongest chapters in the book. There is also a good working example of Oracle Portal.

The book is used throughout the world as College text. Most instructors like the level of detail and the labs/quizes at the end of each chapter.

At first glance, this appears to be a descent book on
JavaSpaces. However, on closer examination, you'll find the
book riddle with errors and with blante omissions in the
example code.

But the biggest shortcoming of the book is that there is
no link or URL to the source code - and no there's no way to
contact the author either.

In short, it's book about examples and but the examples may
not work as written (for instance, the parallel programming
example at the end doesn't work and SpaceUtil class is a mess.)

Pretty good examples. BUT the thing which surprised me is that there is no URL for downloading example source code or CD with the book. Before you can really run the examples in this book, you need click in source code. Can you believe this? What a pity! I would have rated it higher if the URL for downloading code was provided.

For a beginner in JavaSpace as me, I think it is a good book. Organization of the topic is good. Examples are in very details and easy learning/ understanding.
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I'd say that "lightweight" best describes this book. There's precious little here that you can't find in other, better books on the topic, but it does seem to hit the minimum information you'd expect from an XHTML book. It's almost as if this were meant to be a larger book, but portions were cut; it's physically smaller than nearly any other book on this topic.

While size certainly isn't the primary consideration for a book's quality, it may be reflective of a lack of completeness -- and I believe it's true in this case. The author seems competent enough with the material, but there is not much to recommend this peculiarly lightweight book over others on the same topic.

I was looking for info on XHTML modularization. There were pages of examples with little explanation. I like examples, but if I can't understand them they aren't very helpful. Try the XHTML Black Book instead.

In the absence of information about it, many experienced HTML programmers are a bit uncertain about XHTML. Some of this uncertainty is generated by the semantics of the new version rather than the substance. We have gone through the iterations of HTML 1.0 through 4.0 and rather than having a new version numbered 5.0 we have a new name for it. This suggests a fundamental shift in the focus and gives the appearance of increased complexity.
That is more appearance than reality. XHTML is HTML based on the organizational structure of XML. Nearly all of the HTML that you have grown to know and love will still work just as well as it did before. Even in the cases where changes need to be made, they are almost always in the direction of greater organization and reduced ambiguity.
This book, written and reviewed by members of the W3C XHTML working group, describes all of the differences between HTML and XHTML. As the title suggests, the differences are described by the presentation of short direct examples rather than descriptions and long blocks of code. In general, the explanations are thorough and everyone with an understanding of HTML will have no trouble in following them.
There was one omission that I find very puzzling. When using the components that can be placed in an HTML form, the reference names were assigned using the name=" " attribute. However, the XHTML standards are unambiguous when stating, "XHTML 1.0 documents MUST use the id attribute when defining fragment identifiers, even on elements that historically have also had a name attribute." Granted that the current situation often requires that both be used, this omission is the one glaring weakness of the book.
XHTML is not a complex extension of HTML. It is in many ways a tightening of the rules, making the creation and parsing of XHTML files cleaner and less ambiguous. This is clearly a direction that the industry will follow and there is no doubt that it is a language that must be learned by all HTML coders. This book will help you do that in a very gentle way.

To start a career in clinical biostatistics field, with minimal computer background, this book is a great help !

I purchased this book because I needed to do a large number of logistic regression runs for my dissertation. It does an excellent job in going through all the SAS code you need in order to write good logistic regression equations. However, I was disappointed by the very limited discussion surrounding the application of the models. Fortunately, it does provide useful references.

The book is useful because it goes beyond the SAS user manuals in explaining how to program logistic regressions and what SAS's output is describing. However, if you do not already have a good understanding of logistic regression, (i.e. you had one lecture on it in your research methods class) you might be better off with something along the lines of Logistic Regression Using the SAS System: Theory and Application by Paul Allison. (I have no affiliation with Dr. Allison.)

"Ceol Mor" uses a unique and difficult notation. It is perhaps best known for its errors and omissions in the extensive tune section. Today, the Piobaireachd Society's scores and notation are the standard, "Ceol Mor" being considered unreliable when compared to the original source manuscripts. It does have several tunes which have not been subsequently published.

I couldn't believe that the book goes through programs that aren't even on the CD. I went to use one of them, and it wasn't included (even though it specifically said it was). The CD is also supposed to include the Que book "Using CGI" but that wasn't included either. I have had this problem with other Que books too. I think that this is my last Que book. Overall, the content was fair and helped me solve some beginning problems with CGI. If I had to do it again, I would look for another CGI book that was more in depth.

A great book, at one time. Lots of examples shown, but a step-by-step procedure is not REALLY shown to give 100% understanding to the reader. The books' poor layout and the small drawings, classifies this book as a quick reference. This book is really not meant for beginners.

The problem with Erica Jong's popularity is that so many white males (John Updike, Anthony Burgess, etc.) welcomed her book 'Fear of Flying'. On the other hand, without crediting those white males with any real discernment of feminist daring, let's remember that it was such people who got the book on the best seller list. Jong is infinitely more talented than those writers, but this book seems to be unable to articulate this simple truth. Let's remember, then, that it is clueless white males who advocate books by George Orwell, John Steinbeck, etc. Erica Jong is courageous and challenges eurocentric patriarchy, something those other writers did not do, and are now irrelevant because of it. Besides which, Jong isn't really *all that* radical a feminist anyway. She has been trivialized by being afflicted with white male enthusiasm, but no one can forget that her books are momentous because they are so individual, as all Women are.

Although this book is devoid of any prickings, patterns, or line drawings it is worth owning just for the sheer number (243 to be exact) of beautiful, close-up photos of antique laces. The photographs are quite clear enough, I believe, that the advanced lacemaker should be able to replicate many of the laces. And the novice lacer, like me, will enjoy thumbing its pages and dreaming of future projects.