The expert guide to deploying and managing any WebSphere Application Server V5.x application and environment

If you're a WebSphere Application Server administrator or developer, this

is your advanced guide for delivering applications rapidly, running them smoothly, and administering them efficiently. Four leading IBM consultants draw on their years of experience to illuminate the key steps involved in taking WebSphere Application Server applications from development to production. They focus on the areas most crucial to success, including application assembly and build, application and infrastructure configuration and administration, and application testing and verification. Along the way, they show how to implement automated deployment processes that can be executed frequently, reliably, and quickly—so you can get your applications to market fast. The focus is on WebSphere Application Server Version 5.1, but much of the information applies to other versions.

Coverage includes

• Installing, testing, and managing WebSphere Application Server environments: clustering, security, messaging, integration, and more

• Deploying and managing key J2EE technologies: JDBC, Connectors, EJB, container managed and message driven beans, transactions, JMS, JavaMail, and more

• Deploying highly available, scalable multi-node WebSphere Application Server environments: clustering, distributed session management, and edge components

• Advanced considerations: working with Java Management Extensions, caching, and much more

• Performance-tuning tools

• Troubleshooting

• Leveraging key WebSphere deployment and administration tools: ANT, wsadmin, Admin Console, and the Application Server Toolkit

• Advanced discussions of J2EE and architectural concepts you need to deploy successfully—with practical examples

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Amazon.com® Reader Reviews (Ranked by Helpfulness)

Average Amazon.com® Rating:  Based on 14 Ratings

Great book for WAS Systems Administrators - 2006-06-13
Reviewer Rating:
For individuals working in the systems administrations space for WebSphere Application Server, this book is a must have. Covering most aspects day to day administrations this book explains clearly and concisely the why's and how's of WAS best practice.

It breifly describes the main concepts that a sys admin would encounter and then goes on to discuss the deployment issues around that particular subject. (See coverage section in the editorial review)

One of the most useful aspects of the book is it's attention to the wsadmin scripting utility (and its integration with ANT) that is favoured by most sys admin's but is lacking in good examples even in the info center. Unfortunately all of the scripting is done using JACL (they explain this reasoning in the book) and it would have been nice to have seen some in Jython. (Note that as of v6.1 there is a utility that does a pretty good job of converting JACL scripts to Jython see http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=180&uid=swg24012144).

Although this book is based on WAS v5 the majority of it's contents is applicable to v6 also so it is certainly worth the purchase. I work with WAS from v4 - v6 and the book has been very useful to me as a WAS specialist.

I should note that I am an IBM employee and as a WAS technical specialist I work with many organisations helping them to implement their WAS environments. I recommend this book to them without reservation and this is high recommendation as we tend to be more critical than most about WAS material.

Couldn't install the trial version - 2006-11-16
Reviewer Rating:
I preffer to try it in a real life invironment - couldn't install the trial version from the disk to XP, Windows Server 2003 - some eerors; how can I try it? Gave up at some point. CDs provided are not good

very good one - 2006-03-09
Reviewer Rating:
This book is a good one for the people who already have worked with WAS and have got some kind of experince with the WAS. The book explains all aspects of J2EE with WAS.

Good WebSphere book for advanced using - 2007-08-08
Reviewer Rating:
This is a good book of advanced WebSphere 5 configuration. It is good for reader should have experienced in WAS for a while. I love its Network Deployment segtions.

Anan

Single Most Valuable WebSphere Book I Own - 2007-06-21
Reviewer Rating:
I bought this book in 2004. It really helped me to understand WebSphere and provides a source of "real world" guidelines and recommendations for how to deploy and configure all aspects of WebSphere 5.0x and WebSphere 5.1. It also focuses a great deal on the process of successfully deploying applications--a topic which I think is still largely overlooked today. I say overlooked because usually the granular issues of the deployment process never successfully reach the ears of the people buying, selling, and managing the WebSphere platform and leave a large hole for the development and admin team to fill. I'm personally glad for the personal and business opportunities this gap created for me and my company. We turn to this book time and again when working through tactical and strategic WebSphere questions and it always provides detailed insightful analysis which helps to inform and solidify out thinking.

All, that aside, this is the single most insightful and valuable book on WebSphere avaliable. Anybody remotely involved with WebSphere should own (read, and reread) without question.

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