JBuilder 3 Unleashed

by Neal Ford, Talal Azzouka, Casey Williams

JBuilder 3 Unleashed is designed to help intermediate to advanced level Java developers obtain the information and techniques needed to create mission critical JBuilder applications. The book picks up... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0672315483
• ISBN13: 9780672315480
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Sams
• Length: 1072 Pages
• Weight: 4.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 2.5" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

Learn Java First

If you buy this book expecting a hand holding tutorial on Java forget it. An Unleashed book assumes existing knowledge and moves to a next level. JBuilder 3 is dated but with the paucity of Jbuilder books it's still a reasonable buy. Contrary to earlier reviews that say it doesn't cover JBuilder; of course it does. Unfortunately it takes 143 pages before it gets on the JBuilder track. After a 28 page introduction to the JBuilder environment, the book deviates into valuable but out of order material on Software Life Cycle Models, Requirements Gathering, Object Oriented Analysis and Design, Testing Methods, Version control and coding standards. Part III is where you really get into the JBuilder/Java meat. The remaining chapters 9 to 41 cover a broad range of topics including OOP in Jave, Advanced OOP, Layout Managers, Events, beans, Exceptions, debugging, I/O, Database programming, JNI, etc, etc. Some like JNI are quite brief though. However, where it applies the topics are JBuilder centric. Finally, Java programming is as much a philosophy as a technology. It very much helps to learn the way of Java programming before moving to a visual development tool. I strongly recommend you read a basic Java book such as Teach Yourself Java in 21 Days and an in depth book such as Thinking in Java before tackling the book reviewed herein. Unfortunately the book is much in need of updating with JBuilder 6 just released.

Unbelievably good resource

What an awesome book! The first part goes into too much detail about software engineering practices, but it's probably good advice for most developers. The real meat of the book starts about 100 pages in and boy does it cover a lot of material! There are a bunch of things that I just couldn't figure out in JBuilder, even with the (lame) documentation. This book has already saved me tons of time. The chapter on dataset resolution alone is worth the cost of the book. I wish they had gone into a little more depth on some of the advanced topics (like EJB and CORBA), but these are minor points. I would absolutely recommend this book to any serious JBuilder developer. This book plus the Core Java books are all you'll ever need.

Good Information, but also padding

A computer book can either be a re-hash of the owner's manual, or it can you farther in one direction. This book did give me more insights into JBuilder, but it also wanders off into project management for several chapters. To learn about Java I prefer "Core Java 2". "Unleashed" is very readable and clear.

Good coverage of Jbuilder's details.

An excellent book! The authors have been able to not only cover the intricacies of JBuilder's features, but also the topics of software design and testing.This is not a beginner's book. You need to have a decent foundation of Java. Most of the examples start at a point where some foreknowledge of the subject is required. I liked this method of examples, it doesn't bog you down with the basics and gets to the meat of the topic. This saved time by not having to filter the relevant information out of the subject matter. If one needs to return to the basics, there is plenty of places to acquire this information.I was struggling with JBuilder's QueryResolver. With the information provided in this book I was able to complete my project. I'm looking forward to tackling the topics of applets and multitier environments.

an invaluable book for Java developers

This book provides invaluable materials including Java Language, Software Architeure, Database Programming, CORBA, EJB, Servlets, and so on... From this book, not only I learn some very useful Java skills, but also, I know how to integrate Objet Modeling Technology and JBuilder. If you want to develop a real Java / Object Oriented project, then, you must have this book !