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	• JSR168 Portlet Development: Learning How to Develop Effective, JSR-168, Portal Applications, Everything from ... JSR168 Portlet and Portal Development Publishing, 2007 - 251 pages average customer review:based on 6 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

A student of the author introduce this book to me

A friend of mine attended his class. He said this author is great, he explains things clearly and seems really understand students' need. He knows where students may get confused and he spends more time explain on them. He said he felt the teacher know what questions students may ask. Before student asks, the auther explains.

So I guess a good teacher can write good books because he knows how to explain. I think I am right. I have read another porlet book and very disappointed. After I read this one, I really understand how to work on portlet development.

Like in college, professors good at doing research may not be good at teaching, because they never figure out why students do not understand this kind of simple things (These professors are too smart). Teaching is a skill. This author is really good at teaching, so he is good at writing a book to teach reader.

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Crisp, Clear and Captivating

The author has done a beautiful job in writing a clear and concise text on portlet programming for the JSR-168 spec. I've taken plenty of training on portal/portlet development and applied it minimally. Reading through this text summarized and CLARIFIED all of what went on in class, and made it much easier to comprehend. The quizzes at the end of the chapters are great checkpoints to boot. I've been very happy with the series of books Mr McKenzie has put out. They are engaging and invaluable to me as a java/web programmer.

makes learning portlets totally easy

I knew nothing about portals and portlets until I picked up this book. It really is an easy and enjoyable read and easy to follow and understand. I recommend this book to any one who would like to battle the IT world of Java and portlets. Another great thing is, if you really don't understand something you can go to the web sites and watch the free tutorials the author has online, and no offence, but if you don't understand it after reading the book and watching the tutorials then maybe portal is not best for you. :)

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By a java nut for java nuts...

A java nut is defined as someone who worships the community developed JSRs. This book brings the ultra-boring standard to life with quite a bit of humor thrown in. For a veteran servlet/JSP developer, this is indeed a perfect starting point for portlets. However, you do need to know about servlets to understand phrases such as "...like a servlet, a portlet lives peacefully in a war file..." on page 2. It gets better as you read and I simply could not put this book down (a rarity among all programming books). It comrehensively answers the question "I know all there is to know about jsp, now how do I code portlets?".

I do have some suggestions for improvememts though (although I suspect the author will hate this). Basically, I think there is much more to portal development than the JSR-168 (soon to be obsolete or augmented by a new JSR). The standard is silent on practical aspects of portal development like themes, layouts and the all important content management systems (CMS) needed for large sites (in fact, anything to do with a database persistence or system state and, well, data is missing in the JSR-168). Portal vendors, even the "reference implementation" Pluto, therefore need much more than the JSR-168 to deliver the required developer functionality...this virtually guarantees that any "pure" JSR-168 portlet you write will need to be tweaked somewhat depending on which portal framework you will deploy into. Conversely, if you are using a commercial vendor CMS to create a portal, you need to know zilch about JSR-168. You will need to figure out the database level housekeeping details by yourself (or pay the vendor to teach you...no free lunch even with the open source guys). So, beyond the simplest toy portlets, albeit a solid exposition of the JSR, you will need more than this book to get really going (mostly understanding your framework and container etc...especially to master themes, layouts and CMS).

Finally, thanks to Amazon, I was able to order this book directly from the author (pulpjava). In addition sending me the latest edition of this book for no charge, he even sent me a free book on java exams...THANKS!

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Total Coverage of Portlet Development to the JSR-168 Standard

This book gives you exactly what you need if you're new to the Portlet API. It goes over all of the classes of the JSR 168 API, with lots of explaination of how portlets work, and simple, but relevant examples, that make it very easy to understand how, why, and what is going on inside of a portlet.

The book starts off with the basics of PortletRequest and PortletResponse programming, and moves quickly at a good pace into deeper and deeper subjects, such as PortletPreferences, PortletSession and Validators.

The book covers everything in the Portlet API, is easy to read, and makes many of the advanced topics very easy to understand. The author makes learning portlet development simple easy, which is perfect, because so many other books make it so convoluted and hard.

If you're doing portlet development, you've got to have this book on your bookshelf, if not right next to your keyboard.

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Imagine a portlet development book that dealt with just that: portlet development.

Imagine a great book that made understanding the JSR-168 API easy, and taught you exactly what you needed to know to start developing effective portlet solutions; solutions that could be developed and deployed to any JSR-168 compliant portal server.

Imagine a portlet development book that did not complicate things with sidetrack discussions of Maven, or Lucene, or proprietary portal server solutions that have nothing to do with the core concept of JSR-168 portlet development.

Imagine a portlet development book that was up to date.

Imagine a book that set out to explain JSR-168 portlet development, and did just that - explain, in simple terms, how to leverage the JSR-168 portlet API, and create smart and effective portlet applications.

Well, let me tell you: this is the portlet development book for which you have been waiting. A Good Book On Understanding JSR-168 Portlet Development is the only book you need to start learning how to effectively and intelligently take advantage of the JSR-168, portlet development API.

Starting off with a basic introduction to the Portlet interface, this book progressively graduates to more and more advanced topics, covering everything from the complexities of handling a request-response cycle in a GenericPortlet, to the nuances of action processing, all the way to the implementation of custom portlet modes within a JSR-168 compliant portlet. If it has to do with the JSR-168 API, it is covered in this book, and it is covered in a way that makes learning about portlet development fun and easy.

Every single object in the JSR-168 API is covered, with simple, straight forward, properly explained examples, that you can easily follow, and use as templates for further exploration and portlet development.

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