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Good short review of JBoss AS features in the book, Meera. That's helpful. Thanks. Happy New Year.

About the book, what else do we expect? Bill Burke, a long time JBoss contributor and architect, currently a Fellow at the JBoss division of Red Hat, could also have contributed to the book contents. It was good to meet and hear from Bill Burke at the 2002 The ServerSide Java symposium in Boston, MA. (He has already authored EJB 3.0 5th Edition with Richard -- but that's by O'Reilly).

However regarding the JBoss in Action book and its authors Javid Jamae and Peter Johnson - both authors have great experience in IT. I mean, Javid started programming BASIC on the Apple IIe at 5 years old ( read http://java.dzone.com/articles/an-interview-with-jboss-action/ ) and Peter is coding since last 40 years. That's significant.

As we know, JBoss AS is a certified J2EE application server from JBoss Enterprise Middleware System (JEMS). It started as an open source EJB container project during 1999-2000 time frame, and today (as of 2009 beginning) has witnessed millions of downloads across the world including 50,000 downloads of JBoss AS 5.0 alone. JBoss AS 5.0 is a Java EE 1.5 compliant software. It is built on top of the new JBoss Microcontainer and it is known that it had been in development for 3+ years.

I need to work on JBoss AS in critical production environments, so as per the book's review, I look forward to learning a lot from the book contents. Thanks for a FREE book give-away, it's a great initiative WIN-WIN-WIN, as readers benefit, the technology gets promoted (rightfully so), and a hunt to distinguish a motivated dedicated software engineer from the crowd is quenched to an extent.

Thanks, Abhay. Yes, this is indeed a great book. Happy New Year to you also.

a great book for all Jboss guys!

"DZone and Manning have partnered to give away three free copies of JBoss In Action", dont worry i will download free copy.

Great book. Well written and informative.
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It will be nice to have this book!

I choose JBoss because it's an enterprise level full scale JAS, and it's free. In the same time, I do feel the online documentation is sketchy. That's why I am looking for a good book to learn more about JBoss.
,I choose JBoss because it's an enterprise level full scale JAS, and it's free. In the same time, I do feel the online documentation is sketchy. That's why I am looking for a good book to learn more about JBoss.

What a great book, thank you for making it availible

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I have this book and it is great! Really easy to read, I completely agree with the review.

Great book! Thx for making it available.

Having worked with other "heavy duty" application servers (Websphere, WebMethods, etc.) I find the installation and administration to be substantially easier. JBoss has a remarkable user community; it's great not to be nickled and dimed for every little feature!

,What can I say about JBoss that hasn't already been said...

I've being using JBoss for 4 years. Its great!