s="h3color tiny">This review is from: IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.0 Administration Guide (Kindle Edition)

This is a very good book for WAS beginners. It is much smaller than the official WAS RedBook, but it will guide you through the most important administrative concepts of WAS8. Unfortunately it lacks the Network Deployment capabilities (like clustering, HA or CIM) and there are some weak points in the book (see below) but it has a lot of valuable hints and is very easy and fast to read.The strong sides of the book- Easy and fast to read- Excellent for people new to WAS- Great hints from a person who professionally works with WAS from many years- Nice examples with sample code and scripts available to downloadThe book weaknesses- Administration of only standalone WAS installations (Network Deployment is not covered)- Unfortunately the part about applying fixpacks in chapter 11 is not valid for WAS version 8- Part about HTTP server also could be updated to version 8 in chapter 9You can read my full...Read more

Steve Robinson has done an excellent work in writing this book. I found it very interesting to read as a system administrator whose application portfolio includes WebSphere application server. This book is full of practical examples and very well and clearly explained. I did also like the accuracy of the practical examples because the results were similarity what Steve indicated in the book. The only caveat I found was that some links didn't work especially the link for the repository to download the WebSphere application server. This is however expected as IBM links change all the time. I have recommended this book to a few other administrators, some who have bought it. I will continue recommending it as a must read for WebSphere administrators.