A complete reference to the complex and multifaceted middleware that is WebSphere Application Server—used by huge enterprises as well as small businesses—this guide covers not only installation and configuration but the critical verification and management process for ensuring successful installation and implementation. All of the different packages, from Express to Network, are addressed so that companies of all sizes will be able to successfully implement WebSphere Application Server V6. The steps involved in setting up a complete WebSphere Application Server installation are provided, and the configuration process for a highly available, workload-managed (HA/WLM), clustered environment built using the WebSphere V6 Network Deployment package is demonstrated. Also discussed are dynamic caching, security, Web service enablement, the Application Server Tool (AST) kit, and WebSphere Rapid Deployment (WRD).

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Misleading Title, Good for Admins, UseLess for Developers - 2006-12-26
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I am an Applciation Developer who bought this book but I am afraid to say that it does not meet my expectation. The title of the book should be renamed as - "WebSphere Application Server: Administration and Deployment".

1) The book assumes that you know the Deployment Managers, Nodes, Cells and their relations. There should be an Intro. section which talks about the basic terms used for Webpshere.

2) There is not enough coverage of Webservices/SOA . How do we create a enterprise applciations using SIBus. At least a Hellow World applciation should have been mentioned. More coverage should be on developing enterprise aplciation using the services/components provided by Webpshere 6

3) The level of this book is: Novice to Intermediate but in true terms is actually : Intermediate to Advance.

Overall I still think that the best book published on the Webpshere is the Websphere Bible by Brayon Kataoka et al. Though it was on WAS 4.x, it still does a good job of explaining the fundamentals of Webpshere platform and how to develop and administer application on it.

If you need to work with the WebSphere AS get this book - 2007-04-06
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The step by step format of this book is excellent. Within minutes after unpacking the book I was putting it to good use. I had spent a few days trying to follow all the cross references and procedures in the RedBooks for configuring SSL and was getting lost. But this book provided all the information I need in chronological order with step by step instructions and screenshots. The procedures are not infested with references to other 500 page documents or worse yet links that lead to the general ibm support page. And no "out side the scope of this book" statements leave you hanging at critical points.

Must for Websphere 6.0 Admins - 2006-09-19
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It's a excellent source of information for Websphere 6 administration from development to production environment, I would expect something like this for Websphere Portal as well. A must for all websphere administrator's.
Would like author to provide chapters online for Websphere 6.1.

Very good professional support - 2007-01-04
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The book has clear exposition and coincise, than is a complete tutorial on Websphere AS (the earliest version!!).
Much better then Red books !!!!

VERY GOOD BOOK - 2007-08-27
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CLEARLY EXPLAINED EVERYTHING. IT'S EASY TO FOLLOW AND ANYBODY CAN START LEARNING WEBSPHERE WITH THIS BOOK.

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