Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.1
EAN: 9780321127426
ISBN: 0321127420
Label: Addison Wesley
Manufacturer: Addison Wesley
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 560
Publication Date: November 15, 2002
Publisher: Addison Wesley
Studio: Addison Wesley

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Rating: - Essential reading
Like it or not, PoEAA has become one of those must-read books. It's clear and to the point, and I'm honestly struggling to say anything bad about it. The only issue is that it's so enterprise-heavy that if you haven't worked much with Enterprise apps, you'll end up bored and/or confused from the outset.

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Rating: - Good but dated and biased towards Java
This book has some useful patterns such as Special Case, Lazy Load and Application Controller, however for .NET developers you won't gain a great deal from this book, and a lot of the patterns/code examples are very biased towards Java. The code samples in C# you wouldn't write the way that Fowler has written.

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Rating: - Good survey, but recent development trends burdons
Good book. Covers a lot of ground and gives a good survey of the field. Time is on its back, however. The use of web frameworks such as Struts or Spring, and the use of ORM tools such as Hibernate or JPA makes much of the book "redundant". Such tools although solving a lot of practical problems, also introduces many new ones. Maybe a new edition of the book should cover such ground.

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Rating: - Useful but J2EE biased
I'm a .NET developer and, since the book advertises the fact that it covers .NET as well as J2EE I had high hopes. By and large it lived up to them but in some places I think it let itself down.

In particular the majority of the code is in Java. I don't mind mentally mapping from Java to C#, however its the differences between the framework libraries that creates the problem as I simply cannot do that mapping.

Despite this the book is OK, if you concentrate on the patterns ... Read More

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Rating: - key book for enterprise patterns
Even if you find enterprise stuff immensely dull, dealing with databases and web pages is a pretty common task, most of the action in software development revolves around it, and who wants to be completely ignorant of the the alphabet soup of various technologies the IT blogs, books and websites are floating in?

So if you must immerse yourself in this area, what better than a Martin Fowler book? The code is mainly in Java, with a fairly large smattering of C#. It would probably help if ... Read More

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