Product Description: IBM WebSphere is IBM's flagship application server and competes directlywith BEA WebLogic. This book is a great companion volume to Brown etal's'Enterprise Java Programming with IBM WebSphere, 2e'. Brown's bookcovers the programming model while this book covers the deployment andadministrative model.
Good WebSphere book for advanced using 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 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.
Couldn't install the trial version 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
Great book for WAS Systems Administrators 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.
very good one 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.
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