First Impressions of Book 'JBoss AS 7 Configuration, Deployment and Administration'

Packt Publishing recently invited me to review the book JBoss AS 7 Configuration, Deployment and Administration. I readily accepted because I have not used or even read about JBoss in several years and welcomed the opportunity to read about its latest features. In this post, I provide a very brief first impression of the PDF version of this book similar to the brief preliminary review I previously provided of the Packt book Java EE 6 Development with NetBeans 7. I intend to provide a more thorough review of JBoss AS 7 Configuration, Deployment and Administration in a future post with a level of detail similar to that I provided for Java EE 6 Development with NetBeans 7.

The subtitle of author Francesco Marchioni's book JBoss AS 7 Configuration, Deployment and Administration is: "Build a fully-functional, efficient application server using JBoss AS." The "About the Author" section of the book states that Marchioni runs the site http://www.mastertheboss.com/, which has a main page with the subtitle "JBoss and Java EE tutorials." Two links currently shown on that main page are to posts about publication of JBoss AS 7 Configuration, Deployment and Administration and about winning a free copy of JBoss AS 7 Configuration, Deployment and Administration. Marchioni has also written the books JBoss AS 5 Development and JBoss AS 5 Performance Tuning.

The Packt Publishing page for JBoss AS 7 Configuration, Deployment and Administration provides a look at the book's Table of Contents, provides a free sample chapter, and provides more details on what the book covers.

Perusing the Table of Contents of JBoss AS 7 Configuration, Deployment and Administration leads me to believe that the 11 chapters will provide broad coverage of administrating and developing with JBoss AS 7. The chapters include the titles Installing JBoss AS 7, Configuring the Application Server, Configuring Enterprise Services, JBoss Web Server Configuration, Configuring a JBoss AS Domain, Deploying Applications on JBoss AS 7, Managing the Application Server, Clustering, Load-balancing Web Applications, Securing JBoss AS 7, and the particular trendy title Taking JBoss AS 7 in the Cloud. The Appendix looks useful with sections summarizing options and commands for JBoss 7 Command Line Interface (CLI).

I look forward to reading JBoss AS 7 Configuration, Deployment and Administration and learning more about JBoss AS 7. I will post a lengthier review based on my experience reading it.