Customer Rating: 
Summary: JBuilder not JDeveloper
Comment: As indicated in previous reviews, the book does not really cover specifics of JDeveloper. This book is an inferior JBuilder 2.0 overview. It would be nice to have a JDeveloper 3.1 book, but alas it is not yet available.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Does't tell you anything you couldn't figure out
Comment: I use Jdeveloper at the office, and I thought that this book could help me with some of the finer points of using this software package. It did not. It touches on the basic stuff, but if you want to create any EJB components and deploy them, this book is no good for you. There is a book from Oracle that is targeted from development for 8i and it is more useful to a developer. The topics that this book covers are very trivial and out of date for the most part (Jdeveloper 1.x).
Customer Rating:
Summary: Out Dated
Comment: Does not come close to aiding in learning release 3 of JDeveloper. Neither is it a good review of Borlands JBuilder as another reviewer suggested. Save your money and wait for the Dorsey book to ship. Hopefully it applies to release 3.X
Customer Rating:
Summary: Database part a saving grace
Comment: Could have done better. Have not covered key server-side technologies like servlets, JSP, EJB, CORBA etc. The writeup on the database tools of JDeveloper is helpful. That is the only saving grace.Contents might be misleading if the reader is new to java(for example in the the 3.1 version all JBCL components begin with the oracle name rather than the borland name)
I am sure the authors will do good in their second edition of this book. They should not be blamed entirely, the Oracle software kept maturing since the contemplation stage of the book.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Not a book about Jdeveloper
Comment: This book was originally called JBuilder Essebtials. They have simply changed the cover. All references within this book are to the JBuilder IDE not the JDeveloper IDE. Althought the envirnonments are similar there are differences that make the book unusable in some circumstances. If you are looking for a book on Jdeveloper look elsewhere or buy JBuilder Essentials, it's cheaper.
