IBM(R) WebSphere(R) Application Server Programming

By Bessam W. Jamaleddine and Bassem W. Jamaleddine

Provides information about the Web-based applications on multiple platforms, including UNIX, NT, and AIX. This book contains techniques for developers and system integrators, and helps you learn... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0072224592
• ISBN13: 9780072224597
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
• Length: 813 Pages
• Weight: 3.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 2.0" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Plenty of insight into WebSphere. Abosutely to be read!

Excellent book for all Linux and UNIX users. This book offers plenty of insight into the administration and programming of WebSphere that helped me to understand many interesting points such as J2EE classloading under WebSphere runtime, HTTP session persistence (persisted to database), the web container and JAAS-securing servlets, beans to be turned into web services, etc.This book is highly technical, and it offers also insight into the administration way of thing. I recommend it for real enterprise application development. Absolutely to be read.

This text matches concisely its title. A very good book!

This is a book about WAS -- WebSphere Application Server -- whose contents stick concisely to its title. As a reader, I was surprised that the author really took the opposite tack using standard UNIX commands than every other WebSphere book to discuss the administration and programming in WebSphere Application Server while totally avoiding WSAD or Visual Age. Any reader can just start with a Linux machine, a text editor, and WebSphere Application Server solely to learn the inside and out of the latter. The book teaches you a step by step installation, followed by testing the installation and administration; then progressively programming a web application that flow from one chapter to another; then stress testing the web application; and finally monitoring, tuning, and risk managing WAS and the web applications. The book teaches you how to deliver WebSphere applications with maximum performance and availability. This book also offers free download for a toolkit and the WebSphere monitoring application for anyone who would like to supplement his or her computer system executable with extra tools to benchmark Web applications, to monitor processes and threads, to add a WAS risk management application, etc.The writing is solid and the technical approach using the standard UNIX shell scripts and the make utility untied this book from a specific version of WAS.The learning vehicle focuses on concrete commands that show you what is happening behind the scene of web applications programming.Being a book whose contents stick to its title, this is a 4+ stars book (and a 5+ stars once the electronictypos are corrected).This is a fine book in distributed systems to be added to the computer science library.

The first book to address WebSphere Risk Management and more

From the many books that I have read, this is the first and only one that addresses WebSphere Risk Management. The author did an amazing job inintroducing his monitoring applications: WASLED / WASMON (a totallyfree application for non-commercial use).The monitoring is totally independent from any WebSphere API's, which set this monitoring application far above applications that impact the performance of WebSphere.Though too short, the performance and tuning chapter is really amazing. A Brief section about EJB-container performance is thoughtfully andcomprehensively written. A competent yet non-pedantic use of real computerscience nomenclature sets this book apart from run-of-the-mill computertrade books. It is balanced writing that is careful (for the most part) toplease both the reader of highly technical material and the new comer toWebSphere as well.The programming flow from chapter-to-chapter ensures a pre-mature optimization, where the notation of throwable exceptions is kept to a minimum.Yet. this is the first book to show full-blown exception handlers that can beput in the center of any enterprise web application: a total working code --gratis!I have no reason to give this book less than a well deserved 5 stars. Thisis a fine book and a great value...

Learn WebSphere from the inside out

Learn WebSphere from the inside out. This book dispenses with the usual abstractions and details step by step every example and technique. The book starts with installation, moves onto administration and builds on this knowledge to build an application database and finally a complete application. This book contains advanced chapters on performance and monitoring.What sets this book apart is the depth, it moves below the usual abstractions and reaches the inner WebSphere core.Based on purely freely downloadable tools, this book is great for students on a budget and contains sufficient grunt for the seasoned professional code cutter or sysadmin.I guarantee you will never read a WebSphere book quite like this one, it has introduced me to a completely different way of viewing WebSphere and J2EE.

Very good book for administrators and programmers

I particularly like the flow from one chapter to the next and the reuse ofthe code. The author carefully used a development tree to prove WAS run-timeeffect in classloading. The reader will realize how the tree hierarchy andits organization can impact the visibility of the classes. This is the onlybook I've found that explains WAS run time and the classes loading andvisibility. Chapter 15 is a corner stone to understanding WAS classloading.I use the IBM Infocenter as a reference, but the real meaning of hotdeployment is realized practically in this book; a set of cleverly writtenscripts are utilized throughout Part III to hot deploy a web applicationquickly.I liked the development from servlet to EJB, taking code the readers shouldbe familiar with and putting an EJB wrapper around it was a fine idea.Using Apache SOAP and writing a serializer and a deserializer to access theseEJBs was also a great idea.Our company still uses CGI, and I found this book an excellent resource asit is quite direct in showing the utility of using both CGI and Servlets inthe same context of a Web site.Strange enough, I am not a Perl programmer (in fact, I quite often avoidir). Now that I have read this book, I bought the Perl Cookbook tosupplement my library.The system processes and network ports and socketsused are clearlydemystified. The book is straightforward and clear. There is no singlereference to WSAD and Visual Age, except in Chapter 1 where the author madeit clear that neither WSAD or a Visual Age product will be used this book.This is really a book for the community as it opens AS to the public withoutusing any of IBM proprietary software or tool-sets to the understanding andprogramming of J2EE web application in WAS. Interesting nomenclature. A wellorganized book. Couple of typos. But overall I will give it 4 and 1/2 stars.