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Beginners JSP2.0 v1.5 2004
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Neal Ford
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D.V. Press
1 edition
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Reviewed by Valentin Crettaz, October 2004
         (9 of 10)
Willing to learn JSP? Don't know where to start? Terrified by that big 500-pages JSP spec? Can't afford professional courses? Don't know which JSP book to pick out because there are so many? If you are asking yourself any of the previous questions, rush to your local store and buy this professional DVD today!! Neal Ford elegantly manages to ease your way through the maze of JSP development by delving into the details of every single basic and advanced details about the JSP technology. Judge by yourself: the author will tell you about the JSP/Servlet big picture, tomcat administration, all JSP elements, actions, implicit objects and scriplets. Not enough? Well, he goes on with session management, database access, bean tags, expression language, Model 2 pattern, JSTL, connection pooling, events and deployment issues.
More than 8 hours of high-quality authoritative JSP content presented in a virtual class style by a very knowledgeable professional trainer switching back and forth between slide presentations, live code development in the Eclipse environment and execution in a browser. What's more, for those 30 bucks you will spend, well actually invest, you get all the presentation slides as well as all the code developed during this virtual class. The only drawback I can point out is the poor quality of the sound, which costs this DVD his last horseshoe. No big deal though, but it could have been better mastered.
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Beginners Java 2 v1.5 2004 on DVD
by
Neal Ford
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D.V. Press
1 edition
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Reviewed by Mark Spritzler, November 2004
(8 of 10)
One of the things that I hadn't seen in the Java World was training videos, or in this case training DVDs. Not much difference there, except you can cover a lot more than on a Video. The other thing I would like to see is an "Audio Book" that you can hear while driving to work, so that you can learn Java there too. Maybe these guys will put one out.
Ok, now to the review. I found this DVD to be very informative, and covers many topics. The quality of the video and audio remind of my AV days in High School, but heck you don't expect Visual Effects like today's Hollywood movies do ya? You can get over the quality and enjoy learning Java. Overall this DVD covers all of Java, and not much about all the new features in Java 5.0, although there is a chapter later that covers it. But this DVD shouldn't be about the new features, but about teaching Java. This is where it make me wonder if a programming beginner watching this DVD will understand all that is being said. There seems to be a "pre-requisite" knowledge before viewing.
Now, on the other side, I really did like the topics that were covered, and Neal pounds the point of following standards in code and OO principles, that every developer needs to follow. I like the way that Neal presents and teaches, and would recommend this DVD.
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Java Performance LiveLessons
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Charlie Hunt
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Addison-Wesley Professional
edition
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Reviewed by Vijitha Kumara, January 2014
(9 of 10)
This particular course contains four video lessons as outlined briefly below.
First lesson starts with a JVM overview which introduces major components of the HotSpot VM and explains the Java runtime environment. It also introduces different server/client variations of the JVM with details of the JVM heap structure.
Second lesson is focused on collecting performance statistics with different JVM and OS metrics including CPU time, CPU run queue, Memory, Network utilization.
Third lesson discusses how to understand HotSpot VM GC logs. It particularly talks about various GC strategies used in JVMs namely Parallel, CMS and G1 with details on available logging fields.
Fourth lesson is focused on how to tune a HotSpot VM step-by-step with a defined example process.
I found it very interesting as it discusses different kind of issues taking the GC logs in to consideration. It explains how different issues can be avoided and to get application performance improved along the lines of the key measurements; Throughput, Latency and Memory footprint.
All lessons look at multiple operating systems (Windows/Linux/Solaris) with OS specifics for a given objective. Throughout the lessons Visual VM and some OS specific tools are used for monitoring and data capturing.
This series is more of a data driven set of guides where mostly the user is presented with captured data in the form of JVM logs etc... for a given topic and walk them through the related issues while the strategies to overcome those issues being discussed. I recommend this for experienced Java developers looking to troubleshoot performance issues and improve application performance.
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Disclosure: I received a copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for writing this review on behalf of CodeRanch.
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Java Fundamentals I and II (Video Training)
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Deitel and Associates Inc.
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Prentice Hall PTR
1 edition
March 2008
128 pages
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Reviewed by Marc Peabody, May 2008
(6 of 10)
First off, this didn't work in my DVD player. I had to play it from the computer. Small bummer.
This was basically fourteen hours of staring at code already written in a NetBeans editor while a faceless (and somewhat monotone) voice explained how the code works. The mouse pointer moves around or highlights some text to point out a particular area of code, the lessons sometimes shift to JavaDoc or a diagram, and you see Paul's face while he gives the intro and summary of each lesson but it wasn't enough to keep me engaged.
Most if not all of the examples come from the book Java How to Program by Deitel and Associates, also around a hundred bucks. Personally, I'd prefer the book. If I'm staring at a pre-existing code sample, it's easier to read on paper. This does come with a small supplemental book with code samples but it's black and white, whereas the Java How to Program is in beautiful color.
Overall, this LiveLessons DVD pack isn't horrible - I simply think the Deitel book is a better value and I can only recommend this DVD product if you have two hundred dollars to spend and you wish to buy both the Java How to Program book and purchase this LiveLessons as a supplemental to break up the pace of your reading (it's a big book).
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Java 8: Lambda Expressions and Streams
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Marty Hall
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Addison-Wesley Professional
edition
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Reviewed by Bill Gorder, January 2014
(6 of 10)
What I didn't like:
- I expected more interaction maybe some labs or exercises
- Video segments were a little too long to easily stop and start
- A lot of repetition throughout the second lesson
- I did not care for the narrated slide show format. I would have liked to see a format that capitalized more on this being a video.
What I liked:
-The examples clearly expressed the concept being taught.
-Additional detail on how things worked was provided rather than just focusing on syntax
-This was my first experience with the new Java features like lambdas, functional interfaces, method references and the function package. I feel after having watched this video and practiced a bit, that I have a good understanding of the topics.
Marty Hall is an experienced trainer and accomplished author. He does a good job covering the topics, and he is certainly first to the market with this course. Given a person knows what to expect going in (this is a narrated slide presentation), I could recommend this course to those wanting an early look at the new Java 8 features if it were not for the price point. This course is listed at $199.00 (although currently I can get it for $100). Both of these prices exceed the value received from the course in my opinion. A book can be purchased at under half the discounted rate, and nothing about the course capitalized on video in a way that made it advantageous over written literature. I would suggest instead to hold off until some of the books currently being written become available. You could also take advantage of one of the early access programs offered by most publishers. If you don't mind the work you can also get a taste from the free tutorials, and blogs scattered about, although no single one of these will cover all the things in this course. If you are impatient and have the extra money to burn, then this course is good from a technical coverage perspective. It covers all the points outlined in the course description and is easy to follow and listen to.
If the price were made more competitive, or some extra value was added to justify the cost difference from the upcoming written literature, I would add a couple horseshoes and change my recommendation.
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Disclosure: I received a copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for writing this review on behalf of CodeRanch.
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