Just got through this interesting book. It provides a quite nice perspective on a default set of tools for web application development in Java. Obviously focused on config and deployment of GF, the book also covers JSP, JSF, taglibs, messaging, security, ejb, cdi and web services. Althought all very familiar topics, it's nice to have a collection to point to for referencing these proven technologies. It should be pointed out that there are no comprehensive code appendixes in the book. So it's not bloated with code, but on the other hand it's not entirely clear how web services and messaging fit into the big picture.
The primary audience of this book is web developers wanting to move a bit towards the server side, learning how to integrate scalable data providers into their applications. I'll be recommending this book to a couple of web developers.
