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Book:   Ajax on Java
Subject:   Awful, fradulent book
Date:   2008-08-01 17:11:27
From:   Jam One
Rating:  StarStarStarStarStar

This has to be one of the worse books on this topic, I cannot believe that any fair editorial process at O'Reilly would allow this book to be published. The less than stellar one paragraph about the author Steven Douglas Olsen should have been a clue. Apart from a simple javascript example in Chapter 2, none of the code presented as examples work, or even come close to working. As of this writing, I see no corrections for code, or even where to download the code used by the author in this book. This book is a complete waste of your money, time and efforts. The 5 stars given by the first 2 reviews I saw on this site, in which the reviewers declared this book as definitive, must have been done by members of the O'Reilly staff, or by people who know nothing about coding and certainly never attempted any of the examples. Shame on you O'Reilly for scamming the public out of $30 for this travesty. I would give it no stars but sadly that was not an option.
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  • You're wrong about the examples,  September 13 2008
    Submitted by David Leader   [Respond | View]

    I'm afraid the remark about none of the examples working except a simple javascript in Chapter 2 is just untrue. I have the example from Chapter 3 - which involves a Java serlvet and Ajax - running on Tomcat on localhost on my Mac as I write. I was also able to set it up under Eclipse 3 EE (although Eclipse was and is a fight - if you make a mistake it seems to cache it, and refuse to take your update).

    I haven't used the rest of the book, as that was all I needed - I've used Java Servlets before, and I had my own setups, which do not involve Ant. It may be difficult to set up the Servlets if you haven't done it before, but the examples I've tried do work.

    I was mildly annoyed by the writer's completely ignoring the Mac as a Unix platform and pretending that IE, FF and Opera were the top three web browsers. Safari overtook Opera in 2004, and has never looked back. And as for Mac usage...
 
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