Actually somebody did plagariaze my comments off of Amazon.com. I am not very happy about it, but I doubt I have any real recourse:,>.
A couple of things though:
1. I do teach Java programming at a large
technical college
(Waukesha County Technical College, largest
in the state of Wisconsin). I teach
an intermediate Java programming class that
has a heavy emphasis on servlet and JSP
programming.
2. I do think the book is well-written and here
is why. Many of the people on Slashdot are
usually well-rounded developers whose
abilities and experience are often
greater then the average developer. Tomcat
does have excellent documentation, but many
people do not translate what they see in a
a browser as well as what they read in a
book. I think the Apache Tomcat book
provides a great introduction to Tomcat as
well being a useful reference manual. I have
prepared material in my class based off of
this book and have found it easy to follow
and useful.
3. A note of disclosure: I have written for
Wrox in the past (4 books) and done
some technical reviewing work for Wrox. I
have NEVER participated in any kind of
technical reviewing for the Apache Tomcat
book. Wrox sent me a copy of the book
by mistake (I was suppose to be getting a
couple of copies of my own book:,()). Even
though I received this book by mistake
I found this book incredibly useful because
it provided an easy to use reference manual
that I could recommend to my students for
purchase.
Wrox has never asked me to "shill" for this book (or any other book) on Slashdot or Amazon.
I made my review on Amazon because I liked the book and I think that it is worth picking up.
I am posting here today because a colleague of mine sent me email telling me someone plagiarized my review on this site. The review posted here is pretty much my words (except for the hippy part:,()). I stand by my review on Amazon.
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Actually somebody did plagariaze my comments off of Amazon.com. I am not very happy about it, but I doubt I have any real recourse :,>.
:,()). Even
though I received this book by mistake
I found this book incredibly useful because
it provided an easy to use reference manual
that I could recommend to my students for
purchase.
:,()). I stand by my review on Amazon.
A couple of things though:
1. I do teach Java programming at a large technical college (Waukesha County Technical College, largest in the state of Wisconsin). I teach an intermediate Java programming class that has a heavy emphasis on servlet and JSP programming.
2. I do think the book is well-written and here is why. Many of the people on Slashdot are usually well-rounded developers whose abilities and experience are often greater then the average developer. Tomcat does have excellent documentation, but many people do not translate what they see in a a browser as well as what they read in a book. I think the Apache Tomcat book provides a great introduction to Tomcat as well being a useful reference manual. I have prepared material in my class based off of this book and have found it easy to follow and useful.
3. A note of disclosure: I have written for Wrox in the past (4 books) and done some technical reviewing work for Wrox. I have NEVER participated in any kind of technical reviewing for the Apache Tomcat book. Wrox sent me a copy of the book by mistake (I was suppose to be getting a couple of copies of my own book
Wrox has never asked me to "shill" for this book (or any other book) on Slashdot or Amazon.
I made my review on Amazon because I liked the book and I think that it is worth picking up.
I am posting here today because a colleague of mine sent me email telling me someone plagiarized my review on this site. The review posted here is pretty much my words (except for the hippy part
Sincerely,
John Carnell