There's nothing ordinary about JBoss. What began as an open source EJB container project six years ago has become a fully certified J2EE 1.4 application server with the largest market share, competitive with proprietary Java application servers in features and quality. And with its dynamic architecture, JBoss isn't just a J2EE server. You can alter the services to make J2EE work the way you want, or even throw J2EE away completely.

After more than a million downloads, many JBoss users are no longer trying it out on internal test boxes, but rolling it out on production machines. JBoss: A Developer's Notebook takes you on a complete tour of JBoss in a very unique way: rather than long discussions, you will find code--lots of code. In fact, the book is a collection of hands-on labs that take you through the critical JBoss features step-by-step. You don't just read about JBoss, you learn it through direct practical application. That includes exploring the server's many configurations: from bare features for simple applications, to the lightweight J2EE configuration, to everything JBoss has in store-including Hibernate and Tomcat.

JBoss: A Developer's Notebook also introduces the management console, the web services messaging features, enhanced monitoring capabilities, and shows you how to improve performance. At the end of each lab, you'll find a section called "What about..." that anticipates and answers likely follow-up questions, along with a section that points you to articles and other resources if you need more information.

JBoss is truly an extraordinary application server. And we have an extraordinary way for you to learn it.

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Average Amazon.com® Rating:  Based on 15 Ratings

Excellent book on JBoss - 2005-12-05
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Excellent book on JBoss, the book is a easy read covering the ins and outs of JBoss from writing your app to, securing and managing the container. Very well presented with the cool notes on the sidebar which are worth reading all by themselves. The chapters are concise and to the point in presenting the ideas, this has become valuable resource on my desk.

Short and to the point - 2008-11-04
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I never have the time to read all the technical books required in today's high tech world, so it's nice to see a book that cuts to the chase and give you the critical information to build with JBOSS.

Great high level overview - 2007-09-24
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"JBoss: A Developer's Notebook" is a great introduction to getting up and running on JBoss. Instead of just dumping code and mounds of text at you, it quickly walks through setting up a "ToDo" application, including connecting to a mySQL database, logging, monitoring and security. None of it is in-depth but it's enough to point you in the right direction.

Be warned that the chapter on persistence uses XDoclet whereas things are moving towards EJB3 now so that chapter is not quite as useful as the rest of the book.

Overall, I would recommend this book if you are looking to set up a JBoss development server. Using it, I was able to tweak my installation of JBoss quite a bit.

Short and sweet and excellent - 2007-02-24
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This book is an example for all modern book writers to follow.

Most writers seem to want to write books weighing a few pounds, try to cover every conceivable topic and eventually do not do sufficient justice to anything.

On the other hand, this book is the book when you know "what" you want to do, and then "how" to do that with JBoss.

Great starter kit - gets down to the brass tacks - 2007-01-05
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JBoss: A Developer's Notebook continues with the pragmatic appproach followed by the other books in the series. A series of clear, succinct examples on getting up and running with JBoss are the primary method used to present the content of the book. Most examples build on a previous example so it is best to cover them in a linear fashion. After execution of the examples, the user should have a good understanding of how JBoss operates, what it takes to deploy an application on JBoss and how to use the built-in features such as the Web Console.

If you are trying to dive into the details of JBoss in order to solve a complex setup issue or trying to fully understand one aspect of the application, then this is probably not the book for you. The depth of the information in the book is appropriate for it's scope as a developers notebook but it is not a reference manual.

Overall, if you want to learn the basics of JBoss quickly or stand up an instance with minimal research, you have come to the right place.

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