Foreword

I don't often find books like this one terribly interesting. Books on a specific technology, such as WebSphere, are often handy if you're using that technology—but they don't contain any great insights. I look to these books to tell me exactly which animal I need to sacrifice with which incense in order to get a job done. And this book does tell you that for these tools.

What makes this book stand out is that it doesn't stop at that. As the old adage says, a fool with a tool is still a fool. If you're developing enterprise applications with a technology like J2EE, it's easy to be a fool. There are lots of ways you can mess things up, and all the wizards and cute graphical interfaces in the world can't save you!

So this book also tells you ...

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