The Most Stolen Book in JavaOne?
My new JBoss Seam book came out just in time for the JavaOne conference. The publisher (Prentice Hall) brought 5 copies of the book for display in their booth as well as in the Red Hat booth. Well, before the day’s end, we only have 2 copies left! The display copies are simply disappearing from the booth as people walked by! 
It is hard to imagine that people paying $5000+ to attend JavaOne would “steal” a $40 book on the show. They probably think that the display copies are vendor freebies? But then, this does not seem to happen to other books and certainly never happened in the vendor booths I had worked in the past 3 JavaOne conferences (we have books on display every year)!
Anyway, we will be running out of display copies very soon at this rate. But here is a tip: there are plenty copies in the JavaOne official book store — along side with my Java ME best seller “Enterprise J2ME”. So, bring it on! Go steal that book!
PS. That just remind me an episode a year ago when my “Nokia Smartphone Hacks” book made the “daily most downloaded book” on popular BitTorrent site Mininova. Well, I am flattered and offended at the same time!
May 9th, 2007 at 2:14 pm
Just checked the bookshop and your Seam book is number six best seller. Congrats!
May 9th, 2007 at 6:45 pm
Thanks Gavin!
May 9th, 2007 at 9:23 pm
That’s because Seam is almost indispensable when working with JSF. I bought yours book online (before it was published) and I’m sure the money spent is worthed.
May 9th, 2007 at 9:48 pm
Thanks Kenneth! I am glad that you find it useful. A short review on amazon would be greatly appreciated.
May 10th, 2007 at 12:40 am
Hey Michael,
At least sign the books, then the people can get a better price in eBay :).
I will buy one, and then I will order sign my book, and after to check it out I can sale in MercadoLivre (Brazilian eBay-Like).
cya
Edgar
May 10th, 2007 at 12:53 am
I sign legitimately purchased books.
May 10th, 2007 at 1:51 am
How can I get one with the signature?
May 10th, 2007 at 3:10 am
Siarhei,
Sure thing! I will be at the Red Hat booth around noon. So, come by and I will happily sign it for you and we can chat about Seam.
cheers
Michael
May 10th, 2007 at 4:16 am
This book has been great!
I’ve been using it in the safari book site.
I’ve had to stop getting up to speed on seam because time has become a massive factor in getting something done and I’ve had to learn php (I hate php!!! stupid syntax). My Eclipse is not working with all the plugins I want and was taking me too long to get it working….
I so can’t wait to be finished this band aid so I can get back to a more structured & organised coding environment (was going to say real, but thought being specific would be better
).
Thanks for putting together this fantastic book!!
Nick
May 10th, 2007 at 10:34 am
Nick, thanks! And best luck with your projects!
May 29th, 2007 at 7:26 am
Hi Michael
Please describe the differences between your two references:
“JBoss Seam : Simplicity & Power …”, and
“Lightweight Java Web Application Development”?
There seems to be a possibility of a high degree of overlap in material between the two, and i cannot decide which one is most relevant to my needs (you’ll probably be inclined to say “both”!).
Thanks,
Mark Weatherill.
May 29th, 2007 at 12:33 pm
Mark,
We are still trying to figure out the best way to produce the “lightweight” book. So, it will be some time before it comes out. The goal of that book is to show how to use standard Java EE technologies without the help of Seam.
That is hard for us since once you have a taste of Seam, it is hard to get off it!
Call the curse of knowledge!
cheers
Michael
August 28th, 2007 at 7:12 am
[...] On the JBoss project front, Seam and Web Beans (JSR-299) generated a lot of interest, sessions were very busy and people loved its simplicity (integration with Google Guice was also very positively perceived - bye bye XML configuration hell). In fact, the Seam book ended-up being a JavaOne best seller AND the “best stolen” book at JavaOne. BTW, Seam integration with Web Services and JBoss ESB are on their way, so stay tuned. [...]