JBoss A Developer's Notebook

I love these developer's notebooks. I wish I could have gotten one for MFC back in the day. The new one on JBoss by Norman Richards and Sam Griffith, Jr., is no exception. In fact, as a long time JBoss "User" (definitely a four letter word in the JBoss world), I can say it's some of the best material on the subject. It's always been tough to find good docs for JBoss, but it's such an awesome J2EE server, that users like myself just muddle through. For the past few years I've been depending on Meeraj Kunnumpurath's excellent JBoss 3.0 Handbook, but "JBoss a developer's Notebook" will be the first thing I reach for now.

I've been using JBoss for almost 5 years now, so I was suprised as to how many things this book cleared up for me. I especially liked the chapter on Security and the final chapter, which is on rolling out JBoss into production. I'm a programmer, so most of my JBoss experience is setting up local or development servers. In the past, I've worked with smart system admins to get JBoss setup on the production servers, but in my new, much smaller business, I'm faced with doing it myself. I feel much better now that I've got this book within reach.