Professional Portal Development with Open Source Tools: Java Portlet API, Lucene, James, Slide (Programmer to Programmer) |
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 | There seems to be a new breed of technical cookbook book that involves throwing a lot of different technologies into a stew and hoping that what comes out is flavorful. Unfortunately, the result is more often than not, a less than tasty meal. This book is a prime example. Although it claims to be a guide to portal development using Java, it is mainly a bare bones discussion of lots of open source technologies without tying them together.The book starts with an introduction to the Java Portlet API. This should be the heart of the book but in 35 pages we get a glance at some aspects of portals and some tables that give us a little on what but virtually nothing on how or why. Thinking that this was simply a quick introduction I wasn't too let down but then the book moves on to short chapters on Lucene, Apache James, Apache OJB, and Jakarta Slide. The book talks about security, planning, JavaScript, deployment, web services, etc. The one thing that is lacking is a feel for how this ... read more.
Written by W. Clay Richardson, Donald Avondolio, Joe Vitale, Peter Len and Kevin T. Smith.
Published 24 February 2004.
Published by John Wiley & Sons.
rrp £29.99.
456 pages Paperback.
ISBN: 0471469513
ISBN-13: 9780471469513 | |
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