I have been using Java for a while (about 12-18 months), and wanted to know if the Core J2EE book was still relevant, and if i should read it?
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I have been using Java for a while (about 12-18 months), and wanted to know if the Core J2EE book was still relevant, and if i should read it?
If you mean the book that Fildor links to, then that was last updated in 2003, somewhere between Java EE 1.3 and 1.4. That was a long time ago; current version of Java EE differ enormously from that. There has been the revolution that was dependency injection frameworks, and the landscape of web frameworks and REST libraries has matured to the point where you very rarely write your own controller servlets.
If you are interested in working with EE 5 or EE 6, then i’m afraid that book is hopelessly out of date. If, on the other hand, you are working on a legacy project that is using EE 1.4, then it might actually be useful!
The book’s website has a handy diagram of the patterns it covers (with broken links):
http://www.corej2eepatterns.com/
The list has a very old-fashioned feel. Data Transfer Object, Service Locator, mmm …