Consisting of a number of well-known open source products, JBoss is more a family of interrelated services than a single monolithic application. But, as with any tool that's as feature-rich as JBoss, there are number of pitfalls and complexities, too.

Most developers struggle with the same issues when deploying J2EE applications on JBoss: they have trouble getting the many J2EE and JBoss deployment descriptors to work together; they have difficulty finding out how to get started; their projects don't have a packaging and deployment strategy that grows with the application; or, they find the Class Loaders confusing and don't know how to use them, which can cause problems.

JBoss at Work: A Practical Guide helps developers overcome these challenges. As you work through the book, you'll build a project using extensive code examples. You'll delve into all the major facets of J2EE application deployment on JBoss, including JSPs, Servlets, EJBs, JMS, JNDI, web services, JavaMail, JDBC, and Hibernate. With the help of this book, you'll:

• Implement a full J2EE application and deploy it on JBoss

• Discover how to use the latest features of JBoss 4 and J2EE 1.4, including J2EE-compliant web services

• Master J2EE application deployment on JBoss with EARs, WARs, and EJB JARs

• Understand the core J2EE deployment descriptors and how they integrate with JBoss-specific descriptors

• Base your security strategy on JAAS

Written for Java developers who want to use JBoss on their projects, the book covers the gamut of deploying J2EE technologies on JBoss, providing a brief survey of each subject aimed at the working professional with limited time.

If you're one of the legions of developers who have decided to give JBoss a try, then JBoss at Work: A Practical Guide is your next logical purchase. It'll show you in plain language how to use the fastest growing open source tool in the industry today. If you've worked with JBoss before, this book will get you up to speed on JBoss 4, JBoss WS (web services), and Hibernate 3.

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This book is not about JBoss - 2009-04-06
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From the title and description, I was expecting a book about how JBoss differs from other J2EE application servers either from a developer's or system administrator's perspective. I got neither. This book is really a general J2EE development guide that happens to use JBoss as the example server. It could have been titled "J2EE Application Development (using JBoss)". As such, it is not really a complete text on the subject and covers areas in only a superficial way. Any book on J2EE by definition is an expansive endeavor. That said, it could be useful as a companion to a real J2EE book in that this book would provide specifics on how to deploy your example / tutorial applications. Deployment (how to literally deploy the final application) is something that is not standardized in the J2EE spec.

Perfect Introduction! - 2007-11-14
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Some books have alot of pages with little information. This book is short, but every page is rich with facts and insights.

I work with integrating a 3rd party application that uses JBoss, and come from a Microsoft development background, so this whole world of Java/JBoss/EJB was a bit new to me. I needed a good guide which would explain what JBoss is, how it works, and how to set it up.

JBoss at Work was exactly what I needed. It walks through setting up JBoss and using it a practical application of a car sales website. Though the entire system is quite complex, the authors have distilled the essence of how it works and why. The examples are simple, yet reveal the full power of JBoss. And the examples build on each other, with sample code that you can edit, compile and deploy yourself. It was an incredible thrill to me (a java newbie) to actually create and deploy a full EJB application on my low-end laptop in just a few short chapters!

Though I know this is the tip of the iceberg into the JBoss world, Tom Marrs and Scott Davis have written an excellent map, laying down a good foundation for anyone who wants to understand JBoss.

JBoss at work - 2007-10-19
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JBoss at Work: A Practical Guide

Great book. It is as the subtitle implies: a practical guide. It was easy to work through the book and the sample code and get a quick yet detailed overview of JBoss and Java web technology. Unlike some huge books, I did not get lost in the complexities. Any technology like this is complex enough as it is. I like to start with an overview, and this book is exactly that: a great introduction and overview. Even so, it's practical enough to put the knowledge to work right away. Hence it's "JBoss at Work."

The Perfect Kickstart - 2009-01-26
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I am a programmer with a number of years experience spanning IBM
mainframe assembler through Java.
I left industry to pursue research in biology and spend much of my time reading and getting up to speed on that side of things. When I need to make use of an unfamiliar programming technology, there is neither the time nor the money for training. JBoss at work was the perfect book to allow me to get a reasonable J2EE implementation off the ground. The example project provided a perfect skeleton of most of the features I needed to implement a plate management system that is being used for cancer research in a joint project between universities.

Encompassing - 2007-10-11
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Aimed at the beginning J2EE developer, this book does a great job of encompassing several exciting technologies and showing how they can all work together (JBoss, Ant, XDoclet, Hibernate, etc.) to achieve the end goal of deploying a robust ear file. XDoclet and ant pair to automate several of the tedious tasks (read deployment descriptor generation) no developer wants to be bogged down with. I am a huge fan of how it introduces all the necessary technologies involved w/o diving into the mundane detail of each and every one. If more depth is required, citations are always provided to other great O'Reilly titles. This book stays true to its title w/o going off on tangents due to other author's personal bias. All decisions are objectively defended (like their decision to illustrate Hibernate as their ORM of choice) and options are always provided. Very practical and a great starting point. Overall, two thumbs up.

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