The use of design patterns in J2EE applications is an exciting new field, adding to the existing wealth of software designs pattern.
This book is a for how to:
* Install iAS and set up a development environment
* Take advantage of the way iAS handles servlets, JSP, and EJBs.
* Package applications to make the most of iAS.
* Integrate Forte for Java and other IDEs.
* Manage application deployment, load balancing, and failover.
* Save time and trouble with iAS registry secrets and logging tricks.
* Harness the power of SOAP and Web Services.
* Make the most of RMI/IIOP.
* Implement best practices for everything from automated builds to high availability architectures.

This book contains CD-ROM, which features:
* Code example from book
* Forte for Java, release 3.0.
* J2SE 1.4
* ICSynergy iPlanet ANT Extensions.

I found this book comprehensive in it's treatment of installing the server, integrating your IDE, deploying servlets, JSP's and EJB's. Implementing SOAP and what's happening behind the scenes. All the things that help a developer new to this server to be successful.

Unfortunately, most of that could be found (though not nearly as quickly) by diligently searching the awful iPlanet server help documentation. The information this book lacks is the information I wanted from a manual. The down-in-the-trenches advanced help with implementing alternative session control, external load balancing, real-time debugging and the specifics of automated builds. The book briefly discusses these things to indicate they are there, but never gives you the real solutions.

I read it. It is not bad , but no real benefit

The Glossbrenners have really lived the research that went into this book. They offer tips and advice like you would get from a consultant - because they are consultants. But they also understand marketing, people, and who to write clearly. This is not a group of characteristics you find in the same author/authoring pair every day, particularly in the hi-tech area

Sorry, but this is more an SAP advertisement for why you should consider mySAP.com, than a reference on what it is. In fairness, the various industry solutions are reasonably well explained, and so is how mySAP.com addresses those industries. But it's really about the level of depth and detail, which is not much in this case. For example, at the end of each chapter, a case study is provided. These, however, are generally a bit vague and "marketing-sounding", while the name of the company or client is often omitted, affecting credibility.

Granted, the whole subject is extensive, however, I was expecting more. It doesn't help that this is a translation from German, which tends to make the reading a bit "stiff" and academic compared to what we are accustomed to in North America.

You need not be a SAP R/3 consultant to benefit from this interesting book. In fact, I am not an R/3 expert and have little direct experience with the product. My motivation for reading this book is to better understand ERP in general as it applies to various industry segments, and SAP R/3 and PeopleSoft in particular because of a consulting assignment.

Before reading this book I was under the mistaken impression that SAP R/3 was inflexible and required any company implementing it to completely redesign their business processes to accommodate the software. In many respects this is true. However, SAP has a tagline that "All Industries Are Not Created Equal", which means that a generic solution enforced by an application is not a real solution at all. Using this book I discovered two things: (1) SAP R/3 is a lot more flexible than I heard and can be highly customized using industry-specific solution maps to a number of industries, and (2) the market challenges of the 20 industries covered in this book.

What I like is the consistent way each industry if presented, using a fixed format that discusses each industry's market trends, requirements and solution maps. As a consultant who works across a wide landscape of industries I was able to quickly absorb some of the characteristics of each industry and their key challenges, as well as see how an ERP solution fit within them. Of course, learning about how SAP as a product supports these industries is also useful, and I suspect essential to consultants and constancies focused on this particular product.

The book is a quick read, informative and definitely a worthwhile investment to anyone who is involved in ERP in general and SAP R/3 in particular.

Not a bad report of what took place although the topic could be a bit dry for the average reader. The dust jacket tries to make the book out to be a bit sexier then it really is. The authors do a good job or moving the story along but I did expect more from Beaty. I think what is interesting is some of the same move movement issues covered within the book are now coming to the forefront with the current crack down on terrorists. If you are interested in the topic of international banking then this book will be interesting.

While most analyses of BCCI saw it as a banking scandal, Beaty and Gwynne correctly understood and colorfully present its true nature: as the deepest and most detailed glimpse anyone has so far had into the real workings of the underground economy. Their findings, which have never been challenged or refuted, have only grown more urgent with time. This book will not only tell you where Osama-types come from, it will tell you how and why they can thrive -- or not. That it was written before anyone knew who bin Laden was makes it all that more extraordinary.

This book presents B2B e-commerce through the eyes of Microsoft. It is not a technical book on the architecture to use to conduct B2B instead a business strategy book. However, it does present three case studies on B2B technical (.NET) architectures to use. In particular the servers : Windows 2000, Commerce Server , sql server and Biztalk.
The focus of the book is the business case for implementing B2B for any small or large company. The core of this is the ability of the technical (.NET) architecture to increase revenue or decrease costs. B2B and in particular procurement can lead to increased sales ( instant globalised company due to the global nature of the internet) and cheaper procurement costs through automation of buying processes.
The book is a business book that is able to justify the technical infrastructure needed for implementing a B2B solution. Most Microsoft Press books have historically been technically focused. This book breaks away from that tradition and is amost in the format of a Harvard Business School Press book. However, this is still an element of technical focus through the case studies presented.

Microsoft Press has always produced books about Microsoft's products, but rarely has a book been produced about how and WHY you should be using them. Also, it doesn't spend all of its time selling you - it actually shows great strategies and how to apply technology to them. Keep it up!

This book provided a high level approach to the nuts & bolts of an ecommerce business. I recommend this book to anyone considering the dive into ecommerce.

I found this book to be very unbiased and helpful in learning how to start an on-line business. Very straight forward, with lots of great resources. The book is very specific to starting retail on-line businesses, so don't be suprised if it does not cover your specific business plan. Great resources, easy to peruse and to find information at-a-glance. I would highly recommend it to anyone starting an on-line business...

I really enjoyed reading this book. It fits in to what many researchers already are saying that there is a major paradigm shift in the world today. The authors have caught the evidence for it in a most interesting way. The three trends are significant. I also fond the part of the development of business process re-engineering to knowledge engineering very interesting. The book is absolutely worth reading.

I very much enjoyed Larsson and Lundberg's observations about direction and trends in internet commerce. The observations relating to classical economics "perfect market" are particularly insightful. Adams Smith's theory of "perfect knowledge" leading to a "perfect market" may not be just theory, but reality in the near future.

This book is well worth reading for anyone involved in marketing on the internet.

U.S. Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan originated using "weightless" to describe computer-powered information technology. Diane Coyle employs his metaphor to explain that the European world is afflicted with unemployment and insecurity because of the evolution from industrial output to weightlessness. Her view of the new technology's international economic impact is distinctly European/British. She paints her strategy for managing the digital economy with a colorful but broad brush: better education, international ethical standards, governmental flexibility, liberalism. Her writing features quirky phrases, challenging sentence structure, and a few British spellings. Coyle includes surprising anecdotes and sparkling quotes from diverse sources - a valuable lexicon for further reading. We [...] recommend this book to those with an eclectic, liberal, literate, European view of the difference between the U.S. economic experience and that of the rest of the world. Such a reader will be delighted here.

An interesting read about the future, provocative optimism, and predictive anticipation for the future. Academic researchers will, however, find a missing link---that to theory. But, for the most part, well worth a quick read. The author shows the trees in a world where too many of us care about the trees.

It presents a thorough illustration on the 1997/1998 Asian crisis based on strong analytical ground, and the role of China in shaping Asia's economic future.

Inspiring in its case studies, one on 'China's Pressure on Hong Kong' and the other on 'China's Pressure on Taiwan'. A lively and concise book, which provokes the question of 'Will China become the number one economic powerhouse in the 21st Century'?

This book has critically examined the cause of financial crisis happened in Asia back in 1997/8, whereas someone might say this was currency crisis, but the author claimed this was actually a liquidity crisis. The unwillingness of many Asian countries, due to moral hazard, to initiate a fundamental structural reform has casued these countries a prolonged period of correction.

As China are exhibiting competitive stress in the global manufacturing advantages, quite similar to the Asian's success back in 1980/90s, these Asian countries do require extra efforts to move up the competitive edge in order sustain its pre-crisis economic dynamics.

In the meantime, the author also provides his viewpoints on why China will overtake Japan's fading dominant position in Asia, partly because of Japan's continual denial of her failures in a number of reforms for the past decade.

This book is not only a good reference book for executives eager to explore China's role in the post-crisis economic transformation, but also illustrating a lot of interesting obervations and open-end questions for further studies.

It's a really good book describing the e-business consulting techniques that could be implemented in profesional life. Despite the fact that it's a little too much technical sometimes it can give a broad view on the new emerging area that seems to be very promising for the existing consulting companies as well as for start up consulting. It's interesting that the books shows not only the consulting opportunities for the existing old economies but also for strictly e-business companies such as ASP's