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The first thing I noticed is the startup time. JBoss AS7 book author claims it is fast to start due to the new modular architecture. I can see on his screenshot, that it is about 5 seconds (on my netbook it is 11 seconds). However, I personally do not consider it "that fast". Certainly, something like GlassFish would take longer.

The book is divided into several chapter. The first ones deals with general things: installation and basic configuration. The following ones deal with configuration for Java EE. The remaining chapter discuss quite advanced topics, such as clustering, load-balancing and cloud computing.

What I especially in this book, that each chapter, or even each separate small part can be used separately without reading previous pages. The author also makes some useful comments and practical remarks. Additionally, the book contains many configuration examples.

1. Go to the edit page of the view
2. Click Advanced
3. Click Theme: Information
4. In the new window choose "Style output"
5. Copy the appeared code into new file "views-view-table.tpl.php".
6. Edit this new file. Add something like this (take a look onto highlighted lines):

<?php
/**
 * @file views-view-table.tpl.php
 * Template to display a view as a table.
 *
 * - $title : The title of this group of rows.  May be empty.
 * - $header: An array of header labels keyed by field id.
 * - $header_classes: An array of header classes keyed by field id.
 * - $fields: An array of CSS IDs to use for each field id.
 * - $classes: A class or classes to apply to the table, based on settings.
 * - $row_classes: An array of classes to apply to each row, indexed by row
 *   number. This matches the index in $rows.
 * - $rows: An array of row items. Each row is an array of content.
 *   $rows are keyed by row number, fields within rows are keyed by field ID.
 * - $field_classes: An array of classes to apply to each field, indexed by
 *   field id, then row number. This matches the index in $rows.
 * @ingroup views_templates
 */
?>

<?php drupal_add_js('misc/form.js'); ?>
<?php drupal_add_js('misc/collapse.js'); ?>

<fieldset class="collapsible collapsed">
  <legend><span class="fieldset-legend"><?php if (!empty($title)) : ?><?php print $title; ?><?php endif; ?></span></legend>
<div class="fieldset-wrapper">

<table <?php if ($classes) { print 'class="'. $classes . '" '; } ?><?php print $attributes; ?>>
  <thead>
    <tr>
      <?php foreach ($header as $field => $label): ?>
        <th <?php if ($header_classes[$field]) { print 'class="'. $header_classes[$field] . '" '; } ?>>
          <?php print $label; ?>
        </th>
      <?php endforeach; ?>
    </tr>
  </thead>
  <tbody>
    <?php foreach ($rows as $row_count => $row): ?>
      <tr class="<?php print implode(' ', $row_classes[$row_count]); ?>">
        <?php foreach ($row as $field => $content): ?>
          <td <?php if ($field_classes[$field][$row_count]) { print 'class="'. $field_classes[$field][$row_count] . '" '; } ?><?php print drupal_attributes($field_attributes[$field][$row_count]); ?>>
            <?php print $content; ?>
          </td>
        <?php endforeach; ?>
      </tr>
    <?php endforeach; ?>
  </tbody>
</table>

</div>

</fieldset>

7. Save the file
8. Copy the file to the "templates" folder of the theme.

In two words, as the title says, the JBoss AS 7 book deals with administration topics, new and advanced features of the JBoss Application Server 7. It seems like it is a must-have book for everyone using or looking forward to migrate/update to JBoss AS 7.