Java WebSocket Programming (Oracle Press)

This book was useless. Its content can easily be found online, and it doesn't cover actually writing websockets from scratch, which means its title is misleading, as it should be properly called "Java WebSocket API Programming" not "Java WebSocket Programming."

This book is a well rounded introduction to WebSockets in Java. The author has done a great job. It is very well organized (note - see "onion" reference from the first reviewer), with fine examples throughout. Highly recommended.Final note - Chapter One makes mention that the sample code is available at oraclepressbooks.com ... but could not find the aforementioned sample code at this or any other site. If anyone knows where or when the code will be posted, please comment. Thank you.

The best web socket book I have read, and it's the 5th one so far.

The book delivered what I was looking for.ConciseEasy to graspWell planned/structuredThe examples applications were believable and applicable to 'real world' scenarios

I have been looking for a book on websockets with java for most of a year now and this was just what I had been looking for. The book has really helped me in my understanding of the protocol.

Poor explaination, does not have the codes on how to actually run the programs, you can get the same thing for free else where. Don't waste your money as I did.

useless book. does not have working examples

WebSocket is an exciting new technology and it is going to open the door for apps with highly extended functionality compared to what one can program today.The book is solid and is more than just a good introduction. The writing is good, the editing is good, and the author successfully explains the core concepts and goes into an impressive level of detail given the relatively short length of the book. There are a lot of applications in the field using RichClients for the front end that would benefit from WebSocket so it was great to see some examples of Java-based clients in addition to JavaScript clients.I give it five stars for all of the above, but I have to take away 1 star for the following reasons not related to content:It should have been written with some instructions on how to use this with the reference implementation of Java EE 7.The author assumes a lot of previous experience in building a web-app. Not a big problem especially if you are using IntelliJ or Netbeans, but a teeny-tiny Maven pom would have helped a beginner out immensely. The sample code solves that problem, if you can find it. The provided reference in the Introduction to the source downloads ([...] does not work, but the source can be found here: [...]The Kindle book is vexing in that the code snippets are inserted as an image, and one cannot copy out of them, not that the rest of the text can be copied either. Perhaps this is a Kindle restriction but it needs to be lifted for code snippets.Finally, the font of the printed book is truly atrocious. You cannot use a sans-serif font for flow text as it is very hard to read.

Good book with right explanation and code to try out.