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Learn to install, configure, run, and troubleshoot the professional versions of Vista in this comprehensive new guide from two leading Windows authorities. From Vista's all-new interface, 32-bit/64-bit architecture, and advanced security features to its fantastic new capabilities for audio and video recording, editing, and broadcasting, you’ll get the techniques and task-by-task instruction you need to master this dramatically different OS.
Customer Reviews:
Simple, well-presented Vista coverage, but not a technical resource.......2007-08-03
I just finished the entire book, except the BDD section which doesn't interest me. The writing style is easy to read/follow, and Mark does his best to keep it interesting.
As I got deeper into the chapters, I found the material becoming less detailed than I needed. I would recommend the book for anyone new to Vista who wants to be exposed to all the new features. I wouldn't recommend it for someone who needs more technical information, because you will come away wanting more. This isn't a book you'd consult to solve problems, but it is a good overview of the new Vista OS.
I will be plowing into the Microsoft Resource Kit next for more depth.
Book Description
"Berry and Linoff lead the reader down an enlightened path of best practices." -Dr. Jim Goodnight, President and Cofounder, SAS Institute Inc.
"This is a great book, and it will be in my stack of four or five essential resources for my professional work." -Ralph Kimball, Author of The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit
Mastering Data Mining
In this follow-up to their successful first book, Data Mining Techniques, Michael J. A. Berry and Gordon S. Linoff offer a case study-based guide to best practices in commercial data mining. Their first book acquainted you with the new generation of data mining tools and techniques and showed you how to use them to make better business decisions. Mastering Data Mining shifts the focus from understanding data mining techniques to achieving business results, placing particular emphasis on customer relationship management.
In this book, you'll learn how to apply data mining techniques to solve practical business problems. After providing the fundamental principles of data mining and customer relationship management, Berry and Linoff share the lessons they have learned through a series of warts-and-all case studies drawn from their experience in a variety of industries, including e-commerce, banking, cataloging, retailing, and telecommunications.
Through the cases, you will learn how to formulate the business problem, analyze the data, evaluate the results, and utilize this information for similar business problems in different industries.
Berry and Linoff show you how to use data mining to:Retain customer loyaltyTarget the right prospectsIdentify new markets for products and servicesRecognize cross-selling opportunities on and off the Web
The companion Web site at http://www.data-miners.com features:Updated information on data mining products and service providersInformation on data mining conferences, courses, and other sources of informationFull-color versions of the illustrations used in the book.
Customer Reviews:
Great superficial knowledge but falls short overall.......2004-12-08
Mastering Data Mining is a great book for quick superficial reference or a crash course in data mining but it becomes useless as more complicated issues araise. The book has a lot of practical examples and quick tips on the outside but as soon as you begin scratching the surface you find out that the examples are as general as they are vague. Some important points in model building are completely omitted and hidden with a graph or nice looking footnote.
More than once I finished a chapter wondering how some model or technique was used. I would suggest reading only the first eight chapters which are a great introduction to overall data mining and skip the case studies. If you are expecting a more serious and detailed reading on data mining, look somewhere else because you won't find it here.
Ideas for GUI design of data mining software.......2001-05-12
While doing a graduate elective on Decision Making Technologies, I realized that data visualization and representation is crucial for data exploratory and validation of data mining analysis. To get some ideas on how the various data visualization and workflow techniques are applied and integrated into the GUI of commercial softwares, survey the various chapters of this book.
Excellent book!.......2000-06-19
This book is an excellent book. The authors explain the various techniques, and show real world examples of their use. Most importantly, they explain the underlying goals of the various techniques, and what to watch out for when using them. I was most relieved to read that I am not alone in having limited success with association rules!
Although some of the particular examples were not the type of examples I deal with, the reasons they were chosen make perfect sense. Data mining owes much of its popularity to people attempting to find churners, etc. But there are plenty of examples covered, and with each one some new insight is revealed. Especially useful to me were the explanations of what it is one sees in the decision trees, lift curves, etc. Also, seeing various problems solved with several of the popular tools (MineSet, Enterprise Miner, etc.) was very helpful. There are many examples from various industries, and you learn something new about those industries too! (If you like the Sesame Street videos of how cans, tires, etc. are made even more than your kids do, you'll love this book for the examples alone.)
It is clear from this book that the authors not only know what they are talking about, they can actually break it down for a newbie like me. I have also had the pleasure of being in one of Mr. Berry's MineSet classes, and he demonstrated the same depth of knowledge and ability to convey it to others in that class as well.
This book is not an algorithm book, but it touches on them. It is not necessarily a tour of data mining tools, but does do this to some degree. It is probably most useful for anyone who wants to know "What is this 'data mining', and how can it help me?" with real world examples to make things clear. If the reader starts out thinking that data mining is just tossing a bunch of data into a tool and getting concrete results back, the confusion will not remain after reading this book. Finally, this book is VERY easy reading. Do yourself (or your boss) a favor and buy this book!
Good, not Great.......2000-05-19
This book provides a number of case studies on applying data mining. I didn't learn a lot since the studies weren't applicable to what I am doing. Someone else might get more out of than me though. I did like their first book (it was very good) but this one wasn't nearly as good. There are better books that discuss the use of data mining software.
A book from practitioners.......2000-03-30
Many books have been written on the algorithms used for data mining (e.g., machine learning, statistics). This is not yet another one.
This book is geared at people who want to derive insight and take action in a business setting. It is now well known that the algorithmic step is only a small part of the iterative knowledge discovery process, yet few books enlighten the users with the issues involved.
This book has a small section on the algorithms, but concentrates on the often-overlooked PROCESS of data mining (sometimes called knowledge discovery) and the problems associated with this process in practice.
Michael and Gordon are practitioners who have used multiple data mining tools and techniques. They know the problems and describe them well, sharing their real-life experiences through actual case studies. For example, people rarely appreciate the main problem with association algorithms: the number of uninteresting rules they generate. Now I can show them pages 426-428.
The few things that I didn't like were the use of non-standard terminology in a few cases. For example, directed instead of supervised; prediction instead of regression. While the common terms aren't great, they're standard now. The book also has few references. Someone readers will want to read more details about specific areas and will not find needed references.
Overall, it's a well written book, easy to read, with nice analogies to the world of photography.
Book Description
- Includes more than 30 percent revised material and five new chapters, covering the new 2.1 features such as EJB Timer Service and JMS as well as the latest open source Java solutions
- The book was developed as part of TheServerSide.com online EJB community, ensuring a built-in audience
- Demonstrates how to build an EJB system, program with EJB, adopt best practices, and harness advanced EJB concepts and techniques, including transactions, persistence, clustering, integration, and performance optimization
- Offers practical guidance on when not to use EJB and how to use simpler, less costly open source technologies in place of or in conjunction with EJB
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* Includes more than 30 percent revised material and five new chapters, covering the new 2.1 features such as EJB Timer Service and JMS as well as the latest open source Java solutions
* The book was developed as part of TheServerSide.com online EJB community, ensuring a built-in audience
* Demonstrates how to build an EJB system, program with EJB, adopt best practices, and harness advanced EJB concepts and techniques, including transactions, persistence, clustering, integration, and performance optimization
* Offers practical guidance on when not to use EJB and how to use simpler, less costly open source technologies in place of or in conjunction with EJB
Customer Reviews:
Holy book of EJB 2.1.......2006-08-10
This book is truly the complete book on EJB Specification 2.1 and more. By more I mean to say that not only does it focus on EJB and their real life implementations but also on the underlying technologies of distributed programming like RMI-IIOP and JNDI. It talks about the best practices and performance optimization techniques that can be used while working on EJBs. For me this book the holy book on EJBs.
This for people who do not know about EJB much and for those who are already grandmasters on them. For beginners, this book might look very heavy initially but slowly and slowly as you try to sink into the chapters you will get excellent conceptual knowledge about what EJBs are and how they are used. For masters, this offers the best reference manual available in the market.
Ok in its sense.......2006-08-02
The title says mastering EJB...which is ok for a title but this book lacks in content that is needed for a beginner. This book claims that it's audience will be a beginner or an advanced guy and I feel that it is oriented more towards the experienced reader. The first 3 chapters explains the basics of Enterprise computing using J2EE environment and a simple example of the Hello Bean EJB, which is good for a beginner. But once you start delving into chapters 4, 5 and furthur in, you will happen to see things for which you might ask yourself the question "Why have I got to do this?".
I'd recommed this book for a guy who already has a fair understanding of EJB and wants to get a through understanding of the concepts. For the rest of us, I'd recommend Head First as the starting point.
No longer a master.......2005-12-28
I have the two earlier editions of this book, but this book hardly added any value or did anything better than those earlier editions. The new chapters does not meet the expectations - I suspect the new authors messed up quality of the book. The new examples on EJB Web services is nothing but a hello world and I even doubt the new authors had any expertise to test those examples. Now I find this book does'nt make any help to me and it is no longer fit to call it as a Mastering EJB book. Now this book would collect dust in my shelf, because I find better examples in the Java web site and also at theserverside.com itself.
Excellent - great examples, covers everything.......2005-04-03
This is an excellent and complete book on EJB. I read 1st and 2nd edition of the O'Reilly EJB book based on recommendations; I have to say the Ed Roman book is far superior - he covers every detail, including peripheral considerations, and has complete and numerous examples. 1 downside - many typos - but thankfully they are so obvious, it doesn't detract from comprehension.
Good for a newbie but not the best.......2005-03-02
This is a good book for a newbie with loads of theories though this book stays far behind the enterprise level computing and on implementation of EJB driven applications. There's a huge gap between what this book describes and the real development environment of EJBs.
Never rely on the sample codes and the methodologies have been used in this book for those are not the best development approaches. This book consists of several pitfalls and not suitable to be used as an EJB development guideline (e:g: this doesn't solve the importance of PK classes and creating composite primary keys). Also never assume that this book describes the best EJB development methodologies just by fantasized by the way that the theories on EJB are presented.
If you seek more adventure on EJB this is probably not the best of books for this lacks some depth to the topics included. Apart from that, this book is quite ok for a newbie to get dirt with EJB and to understand the basics with the theories and fundamentals. If you like some fine grained info and you're a newbie, I'd suggest Applied Enterprise JavaBeans by Kevin Boone to brush up with what's missing here
Book Description
* SAP is investing billions to redesign its flagship R/3 product line based on its ESA, and that ESA will become the standard framework for developing all new SAP ERP applications with NetWeaver
* This book provides an overview of the core building blocks of SAP's new ESA, and shows how ESA works with the NetWeaver platform as well as mySAP ERP
* A step-by-step action plan proposes ideas for designing ESA-based SAP applications
* The companion Web site contains in-depth case examples that show how to build various SAP services and applications using the NetWeaver development tools, plus third-party tools
* Some of the SAP tools covered include NetWeaver Developer Studio, WebDynPro and NetWeaver Portal, NetWeaver BI, and the SAP Composite Application Framework
Customer Reviews:
Excellent Overview .......2007-04-12
There are not many more books that review the subject like Scott and Vamsi do. If you are just out to figure out the capabilities or trying to apply SOA with SAP, this is THE book to read.
Book Description
Your Complete Guide to the World's Leading Linux Enterprise Distribution
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 is emerging as the corporate Linux standard. One of the first books to focus on this robust product, Mastering Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 gives you the practical information you need to install, configure, and network Linux on a large number of computers. For experienced administrators, this book uniquely features detailed coverage of Apache, TUX, Samba, NFS, vsFTP, Squid, SSH, DNS, DHCP, iptables, CUPS, sendmail, Postfix, NIS, LDAP, MySQL, system administration command line and GUI tools and utilities for each phase of the management process. It also helps you configure the GUI for enterprise workstations. Topics include:
- Installing Linux on a standalone system, over a network, and automatically on multiple computers
- Navigating the command line interface
- Administering users and groups securely
- Managing packages with the RPM GUI tool
- Configuring and troubleshooting the boot process
- Upgrading and recompiling kernels
- Backing up your system with RAID
- Understanding basic TCP/IP networking
- Managing Linux on your LAN
- Securing Linux firewalls
- Ensuring secure remote access
- Installing, configuring, and testing DNS, DHCP, CUPS, sendmail and Postfix mail servers
- Configuring and troubleshooting FTP, NFS, Samba, Apache, TUX, and Squid
- Effectively using Linux authentication services--NIS and LDAP
- Using Red Hat GUI administrative tools appropriately
- Setting up MySQL for databases
- Managing X servers and X clients
- Working with GNOME and KDE
Customer Reviews:
perhaps a reference text?.......2005-08-01
This may be more of a reference book than a text on its subject. The breadth of topics is commendable and certainly encompasses much of what you as a sysadmin will probably want to do on a linux machine or cluster.
Jang's choice of the Red Hat linux is good; the most common implementation of linux around. On such a system, the first thing anyone sees after logging in is the desktop. He describes the two choices evenhandedly, KDE and Gnome. Functionally, there is little truly different between them. So it may just come down to your personal preferences as to which you adopt.
He goes carefully into describing network security. Pointing out that linux and open source gives you very powerful free tools to defend against intrusion.
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An invaluable tutorial on the dramatic changes to Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) 3.0
Featuring myriad changes from its previous versions, EJB 3.0 boasts a very different programming and deployment model, with nearly every aspect of development affected. Even the most experienced EBJ and J2EE developers will need to relearn how to best use EJB to develop mission-critical applications. This author team of experts has taken their combined skills in architecture, development, consulting, and knowledge transfer to explain the various changes to EJB 3.0 as well as the rationale behind these changes. You'll learn the concepts and techniques for authoring distributed, enterprise components in Java from the ground up.
Covering basic through advanced subjects, Mastering Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0 is more than 50 percent new and revised. Four new chapters and one new appendix cover the latest features of this new release, and in-depth coverage of the Java Persistence API and the entities defined therein is provided. The authors' main goal is to get you programming with EJB immediately. To that end, you'll learn:
* How to implement EJB 3.0 beans, with emphasis on session beans (stateful and stateless) and message-driven beans
* Both basic and advanced concepts (such as inheritance, relationships, and so on) of Java Persistence API defined entities
* How to develop and deploy EJB 3.0 Web services
* How to secure EJB applications
* How to integrate EJB applications with the outside world via the Java EE Connector technology
* Tips and techniques for designing and deploying EJB for better performance
* How clustering in large-scale EJB systems works
* Best practices for EJB application design, development, and testing
The companion Web site provides all the source code, updates to the source code examples, and a PDF version of the book.
Wiley Technology Publishing Timely. Practical. Reliable.
Visit the companion Web site at www.wiley.com/go/sriganesh
Customer Reviews:
Superb Book.......2006-12-06
Finally. A solid, practical review of EJB -- if you had given up on enterprise bean architecture because of past limitations, most stacks have much better implementations today. This book is a really solid reference and reminded me why I wanted to build in EJB in the first place.
Good introduction but poor practical guidance.......2006-11-08
For a J2EE developer, this book spends too much on high-level introduction of EJB 3.0 spec and forgot to dive in the practical details of where, when and how to use them in a real-world ejb scenarios. I am also bit disappointed about this book as it does'nt add much value while comparing to Sun Java EE5 blueprints. This book also poorly explains the Java persistence API which one of the key ingredients of ejb3.
Great book for beginners.......2006-09-15
I am new to EJB. And I have to tell you after reading this book I don't think I will need other references. I think this a great book for beginners and could be good reference for those who familiar with previous versions of EJB. I wish examples were more detailed.
Really excellent book.......2006-08-24
The book is really very good and I found it very helpful in learning EJB 3.0. I am about to start using EJB 3.0 at my job.
Too much theory and less examples.......2006-08-08
I downloaded this book from theserverside site. The examples are incomplete. But I like Pro EJB 3 by Mike Keith over this book.
Book Description
From one of the world's leading Java programmers--a step-by-step guide to building enterprise-strength applications with RMI
Java developers in general and EJB developers in particular need to master RMI (Remote Method Invocation) technology if they are to write distributed, enterprise-strength applications that communicate effectively with remote applications and devices even under heavy traffic. In this new book, an award-winning and internationally recognized Java expert shows experienced Java and EJB developers how to utilize the full capabilities of RMI to write fast, efficient, fault-tolerant, and flexible applications. This book is a true programming tutorial that provides sophisticated examples that developers can directly implement and customize--a huge timesaving feature!
Customer Reviews:
A good tutorial for RMI, but..........2002-11-01
I purchased this book after doing some research into RMI via the internet to give me a more solid understanding of RMI, which it did. However, when applying my acquired knowledge to a real-world application, I found that I was missing a HUGE piece of the RMI puzzle. RMI over the INTRAnet is a wonderful thing; however, when trying to implmenent RMI over the INTERnet, and the RMI server is behind a firewall, you are in for a painful migraine. This is a show-stopper for my employers, I wish that the book mentioned something about RMI and firewalls. There are workarounds for the firewall, but they are by no means easy and you will not find them in this book.
It answered most questions on RMI mailing List.......2001-10-05
I have been on RMI mailing list for half a year. This book clearly explained most of the frequently asked questions on the list. I think by reading first half the book, I understood RMI better than the half year I spent on RMI mailing list.
I agree that some examples were not given enough explaination, especially non-RMI related codes. E.g, the IdentySocket
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Makes it easy to understand - good teacher.......2001-06-28
I totally disagree with the negative reviews on Öbergs book. I always admire authors who makes things easíer to understand, not making them seem more intelligent than they really are. A good teacher is one who can make things understandable, not the opposite. If you have read 3-5 RMI books before this one you may get disappointed as some of the other reviewers. It's an excellent intoduction to RMI, but don't expect to find some magical new/hidden, features of RMI here. Maybe the title should have instead been "An Introduction to RMI with Lots of Good Explanations." If you need an introduction to RMI, where you don't have to read a lot "between the lines", then this book is a good choice. I've stopped searching the internet for explanations about RMI after I got this book. There are lot's of hello world RMI introductions out there on the web, but Öbergs book goes far beyond them all. A good introduction.
Complete coverage, tough read.......2001-06-27
As the title states Mastering RMI does contain all the information necessary to master the subject of RMI. However, the explainations are not as clear as they could be. And, I found the pictoral diagrams to be of little value. If you are looking for a book which simply gives you what you need to use RMI you may be dissapointed. This book provides COMPLETE coverage, including the underpinnings of the technology. While this may be interesting reading it tends to divert attention and time away from the practical aspects of RMI. If your one of those programmers that has the time and desire to explore all the nitty-gritty details of the subject, regardless of their immediate benefit, than you will probably find this book a good read. Otherwise, if you just want to get up-and-running with RMI their are simpler and quicker routes you can take.
I hope this helpes :)
Amateurish and badly edited.......2001-06-21
I agree with all the negative reviews already posted, but I was so frustrated with this book I had to add another voice of criticism.
The book was obviously a manuscript dump with no editing that I could detect. Why Wiley thinks they can charge this amount for no work at all is beyond me. It is littered with grammatical errors, incomprehensible sentences, and annoying repetition. In short, it is nearly unreadable. To add insult to injury, there are countless summaries which condescend to tell the reader that she should now have a good understanding of the covered material, and can move on. Don't be so sure you will have a good understanding. I did not, and I've been using RMI for some time.
As others have stated, the examples are contrived, and not very well written. There is very little here of use for those developing large-scale distributed systems.
Save your money (considerable money, in this case) and stick to Sun's website.
Book Description
Based on his firsthand experience, Farid Elashmawi has created a concise, valuable primer to 'going global'. 'Competing Globally' gives specific information about entering international markets, negotiating, conducting meetings and presentations, and working with international partners.
'Competing Globally' sheds light on varied business cultures, including those of North America, Europe, Japan, Korea, China, Indonesia, Thailand and the Middle East. Elashmawi uses case studies, anecdotes, social tips, self-tests, and tables to provide important insights into communicating, marketing, and negotiating with organizations outside throughout the world. This book is invaluable to business managers and students who need to enhance their cross-cultural negotiation skills to compete globally.
Customer Reviews:
Astounding Insight and Wisdom!.......2002-08-01
I have read and re-read Farid's book, "Competing Globally, Mastering Multicultural Management and Negotiation", several times this year! He has such insight and wisdom to bringing the nations together in communication skills and taking down the walls in the business realm that I have never seen or implemented before! I have actually found myself to be a mix of many of the different cultures discussed in this wonderful work and it has helped me tremendously in dealing with American businesses! This is the "I'm OK, You're OK" of the business world! Thank you very much Farid! Cheers to YOUR Global Success!
Excellent Resource for Business Professionals.......2002-02-24
This book is an excellent resource for business professionals, providing insights into the various global cultures. Helpful real-world examples provide readers with tips for mastering interpersonal communications, meetings and presentations, and negotiations. Well-written and easy to read, this is a great book for business professionals who need to excel in cross-cultural business situations.
The Weapon to Face Globalisation.......2001-12-05
Competing is about "winning". In this book, Dr. Farid clearly rises an awareness flag on the important role of "culture" to win global competition. A "Cultural Intelligent."
I attended his class once a few years a go in Indonesia. I was admired by his strategy to make poll during the class. This smart way guarantees a more and more qualified poll result since the respondents are accumulated by time to time. He is studying while teaching. And, I have seen these compelling information colours the essence of the book.
As I previously guess before reading, Dr. Farid will fulfil this book with some significant samples from his direct experiences dealing with people in various cultures in many countries. And, I am not wrong about this.
Inside, I have also found the answers of the winning and loosing situations experienced while working and doing international business in past. These are the real value of this book.
Another beauty of this book is, it again tells us that our own way and value are not the only one in this world. There are a lot more cultural differences from country to country, from one race to another. It is now clear why sometimes "Yes" means "No" in some cultures or the other way around. So, in order to properly react to win, the power and the way of thinking of the competitors need to be known. Dr. Farid tells how to simply deal with it Since the business move towards global. The local goes global, the global comes to local.. This book really provides an enough weapon and maps to win the global competition. Enjoy reading it as I did !
The Weapon to Face Globalisation.......2001-12-04
Competing is about "winning". In this book, Dr. Farid clearly rises an awareness flag on the important role of "culture" to win global competition. A "Cultural Intelligent."
I attended his class once a few years a go in Indonesia. I was admired by his strategy to make poll during the class. This smart way guarantees a more and more qualified poll result since the respondents are accumulated by time to time. He is studying while teaching. And, I have seen these compelling information colours the essence of the book.
As I previously guess before reading, Dr. Farid will fulfil this book with some significant samples from his direct experiences dealing with people in various cultures in many countries. And, I am not wrong about this.
Inside, I have also found the answers of the winning and loosing situations experienced while working and doing international business in past. These are the real value of this book.
Another beauty of this book is, it again tells us that our own way and value are not the only one in this world. There are a lot more cultural differences from country to country, from one race to another. It is now clear why sometimes "Yes" means "No" in some cultures. So, in order to properly react to win, the power and way of thinking of the enemy need to be known. Dr. Farid tells how to simply deal with it. This book really provides an enough weapon and maps to win the global competition.
Since the business move towards global. The local goes global, the global comes to local. This book really provides an enough weapon and maps to win the global competition. Enjoy reading it as I did !
Mandatory for International Marketeers.......2001-11-09
With regional and global opening up of markets due to WTO, AFTA, NAFTA, companies will have to learn to work with other companies in other countries to do business more effectively or at less cost. Generally selection of partners is done via short match-making sessions where due to cultural reasons, simple gestures can be misinterpreted. This can lead to loss of valuable marketing or partnering opportunities.
My personal experience in this aspect was in trying to market my company niche area in E-Government Consultancies to developing countries where these countries generally have a different native language, speaks English in a different accent. In addition, we have to differentiate between just curious inquiries or actual leads. Dr Farid's book provides important guidelines on small items which ironically creates the first major impressions. These are communications through telephone, casual chat over ice-breaking sessions, writing of letters etc.
I would recommend these book to managers who are entrusted to do marketing overseas and have to interact with their foreign counterparts. This is to ensure their actions or communications are not being misinterpreted and creating sense of distrust to their potential partners. In addition, they would also be able to gather if their marketing activities is making results
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Corporate Governance is the hot topic of the new millennium. Gone are the days when CEOs set agendas and earned 500 times more than average employees. Now, transparency rules. Corporations must establish new systems of accountability, and encourage long-term participation in decision-making by both shareholders and staff. Those that succeed will be better equipped to create wealth, solve complex problems, and compete in global markets.
The role of the directorate and the need to ensure an effective framework for its accountability to owners is paramount to success. In line with this thinking, Mastering Global Corporate Governance argues that one of the key responsibilities of the Board is leadership, and that the root of good corporate governance lies in the strength of a corporate leader. In particular, it focuses on two 'burning issues' for senior executives: how can the boards of global companies best lead their companies through the fundamental dilemmas that face all boards?; and how can Boards, entrusted with ultimate responsibility for the way a company exercises leadership, provide that leadership?
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"Corporate Governance is the hot topic of the new millennium. Gone are the days when CEOs set agendas and earned 500 times more than average employees. Now, transparency rules. Corporations must establish new systems of accountability, and encourage long-term participation in decision-making by both shareholders and staff. Those that succeed will be better equipped to create wealth, solve complex problems, and compete in global markets.
The role of the directorate and the need to ensure an effective framework for its accountability to owners is paramount to success. In line with this thinking, Mastering Global Corporate Governance argues that one of the key responsibilities of the Board is leadership, and that the root of good corporate governance lies in the strength of a corporate leader. In particular, it focuses on two 'burning issues' for senior executives: how can the boards of global companies best lead their companies through the fundamental dilemmas that face all boards?; and how can Boards, entrusted with ultimate responsibility for the way a company exercises leadership, provide that leadership? "
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Centering on Sun's Enterprise JavaBeans (EJBs) 1.1 specification, Mastering Enterprise JavaBeans surveys the range of technologies and APIs needed to use EJBs successfully. Mixing a high-level perspective on EJBs with plenty of practical programming advice, this title makes a good choice for the IS manager or developer planning to use EJBs in future projects.
This book succeeds in two notable ways. First, it presents a fine high-level overview describing EJBs and how they fit into today's multitiered, server-side enterprise architectures. The author makes connections between EJBs and other component architectures (such as Microsoft DNA and CORBA). Illustrated with numerous diagrams, these chapters will be useful to anyone seeking to understand the basics of Sun's powerful component model.
This title also serves as a programming primer for serious EJB development. In later sections, the author introduces practical advice for creating both session and entity beans, with plenty of nuts-and-bolts advice, including how to work with actual EJB products. (This book also shows you what to look for when purchasing an EJB application server to deploy your bean components.)
Later chapters delve into transaction management and show how to use Java with CORBA and IIOP. The text culminates in an impressive case study using EJBs and Java servlets to power an e-commerce Web site (complete with an online catalog and a shopping cart). This example is a standout, and it's all you will likely need to get started with EJBs in custom projects. Final appendices cover several APIs and standards in more detail, including RMI, JNDI, and XML.
In all, this title succeeds at bringing the EJB standard home to the practical reader. It demystifies EJBs and gives both managers and developers what they need to start solving business problems using this powerful new component model. --Richard Dragan
Topics covered: Overview of Enterprise JavaBeans (EJBs) component model and Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE), the EJB 1.1 standard, multitiered server-side architectures, J2EE technology primer: RMI, JNDI, JDBC, JTS/JTA, servlets and JSPs, Java IDL, JavaMail, Connectors, XML, EJB Container and Server products and responsibilities, session beans: stateless and stateful beans, EJB security and component life cycle, entity beans and persistence: bean-managed persistent entity beans and container-managed persistent entity beans, flat and nested transactions, ACID properties, two-phase commits, CORBA and RMI-IIOP and EJBs, e-commerce case study using EJBs and servlets.
Book Description
A user's manual for "the best thing since the Java language itself" Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) will radically streamline the application development process. It provides a standard way for developing enterprise-level Java applications. And, best of all, it comes equipped with built-in services like database access, security, and transaction monitoring. With EJB, programmers can simply write the business software and hook it into the EJB services it needs to work. The rush is on to develop EJB compliant applications. Filled with practical, proven tips and techniques, this book offers an overview of what EJB is, how it works, and how to build specific EJB applications. CD-ROM includes sample source code, the EJB specification and supporting code from JavaSoft, demos of EJB servers, and links to other sources.
Customer Reviews:
Super EJB book.......2003-03-23
Early this month I emailed Jacquie Barker (author Beginning Java Objects and Deploying Java Objects). This was the email and I quote "Yes, your email about the difficulties encountered by legacy programmers in transitioning to J2EE is indeed true. It took me quite sometime to really understand the whole concept, but after a journey (as you call it) distance equivalent to reading 5 different books on J2EE, I finally found one book which is for me, the super book on J2EE. This book is Mastering Enterprise JavaBeans and the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition by Ed Roman. Although this is a 1999 book on J2EE, the explanations are so thorough and graceful in presenting each topic, that I highly recommend this to legacy programmers new to the subject". To Ed Roman, thank you very much indeed.
Great Book..........2002-01-24
I'm new to this whole Java and come here with a background of C++/COM/DCOM. I must say, this book is written excellent. It gave me a very good understanding of what the heck is all about EJB and stuff around it.
Starting with a review of Server-side architectures, jumps into beans and building different kinds of them. Appendix items give very good idea of technology surrounding EJB.
While the theory part of the book talks about design and architectural issues, the code examples are the best to put you in a position to start building EJB apps immediately.
I strongly recommend this book. It definitely helps those people who have no idea about EJB so far.
Detail Coverage of the EJB Topic.......2001-09-28
A very good book to start off with EJB and is also useful for Developers too.
Excellent book to understand EJB.......2001-08-23
Excellent book to understand EJB. I downloaded this book from theServerside.com ( PDF format) and read it. The pdf content cannot be printed and it can be read online only. I will wait for the next edition to be out ( chapters for review are already available on theServerside.com) and then buy it. The next edition will cover EJB 2.0.
Looking forward to the EJB 2.0 book!.......2001-08-22
If this first book is any indication, the upcoming release from Ed Roman (and pals) is a purchasing no-brainer. Amazon.com already lists the second book and I notice that one of the authors is Floyd Marinescu of theserverside fame. What a powerhouse of authors and information!
The first book was well written and and the author was even available via e-mail for any questions or troubleshooting. The book is a MUST for any Java developers library!!
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