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Professional BlackBerry
by Craig J. Johnston, Richard Evers
from Wrox

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Valuable but "thin"
  Professional BlackBerry by Craig James Johnston & Richard Evers covers sundry facets of the BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES), deployment of BlackBerry devices as well as BlackBerry-application development. As such it is targeted at system administrators and developers. Having been published in 2005, Professional BlackBerry is of course only current up to version 4.0 of the enterprise software.
  After describing the BES system architecture, the authors go into planning the first installation and... more info

• Useful content, but a little light
  One of few Blackberry books available, "Professional Blackberry" has much of its content aimed at hosting BES servers and integrating handhelds while the other offerings concentrate on the heldhelds themselves and largely treat the server as a black box.
  There is still a little time taken to cover features on the handheld such as developing Java applications and using the Plazmic Media Engine for enhanced content, but these are provided as the last two chapters. While they are fine as an introduction,... more info

• For BlackBerry Developer
  Finally, a roadmap for BlackBerry application developers. I would have
  saved countless hours if I had this book 2 years ago.
  I suggest this book for those of you who are about to step into the
  area of developing BlackBerry applications. The book is primarily targeting two types of audience, administrators and developers. The first part being administration related, covers planning and installation, including upgrades.
  If you are a developer, the first part gives you the big picture.... more info

• BlackBerry Developer
  "BlackBerry Professional" caters to BlackBerry system administrators, application programmers, and BlackBerry web developers.
  If you are a BlackBerry system administrator, regardless of size of your corporation, "BlackBerry Professional" does a good job walking you through deploying BlackBerries to people in a corporate organization. The book points out potential pitfalls so that you don't make the common mistakes that others would make.
  As an experienced BlackBerry developer, I suggest this book... more info

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