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Summary: Perfect book for application architects, not for junior SE
Review: The title of the book clearly suggested that this is not a beginner's book for either XML or Java. Although it is more appropriately named XML and Java Servlet. Because this book uses Servlets as a framework for web applications (which is a *VERY* good idea). This book presents ideas to system architects about ways to put together enabled web applications whose nature implies extensibility. The most valuable thing in this book is: 1. Explain why do we want to use XML (Important!) 2. How to parse, generate, and manipulate XML with concise examples. 3. Ideas on types of applications we can do with XML and the Servlet framework. 4. How to build tools such as LMX and SQLX which is quite essential in three-tiered systems. 5. You can read it in 2 days provided you're pretty familiar with Servlets and web application.
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Summary: Good Book
Review: This book covers interfacing Java and XML using a variety of techniques. It introduces the use of a DOM parser and a SAX parser. They use (recommend) IBM's source code. It does an excellent job covering these techniques and shows the reader how to parse sample XML documents. However, it was a bit spartan in its treatment of the DOM API, but they admit that it would be quite lengthy.The book then attempts to cover a variety of places where one would use Java and XML. I felt that this was not necessary. A programmer who reads this book is probably advanced enough to know the constaints and issues of his/her system without having to decipher the author's cryptic helper functions. While some are useful, I felt that the authors' examples were more unique to their problems, rather than generic. Although not a comprehensive book, I felt the first couple of chapters are about all a professional level programmer should read. The feeling of the book was that the authors wanted to make a book out of a relatively small topic. If you already know a SAX parser or a DOM parser, the usefulness of the book declines. If you need an overview of Javabeans or JDBC then some of the chapters might be helpful. In closing, I would NOT attempt to read this book without a basic understanding of Java, HTML and XML.
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Summary: Worst XML book I've ever read
Review: This book doesn't cover the details of XML and Java and the realtionship between the two.
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Summary: This book is a must buy for users of IBM's XML4J!
Review: This book gives java programmers the insight required to read and write both XML files and their associated DTDs. It has been an indispensible reference for my XML projects.
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Summary: Not What it said
Review: This book is not what it says it is. I have to know too much to get what I need. I'm glad I ordered St.Laurent and Cerami's book (Building XML Applications) at the same time. It's much better and it's saved me from too many more headaches.
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Summary: Not for learning XML, but bring some ideas
Review: This book just focuse on few applications of XML, as time passing, that kind of ideas may out of date soon. Also because this book not fully introduce any part of XML, it can only be used as example. But its simple examples are not for professinal, and its introduction about XML seems not enough for novice too. I think don't worth to keep it.
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Summary: This is a great book for server side xml
Review: This book provides fantastic information, it is well written and has an excellent structure. However, when I bought this book, I was looking for front-end manipulation of XML rather than back-end. This book is almost exclusively about getting XML from servers and then getting the XML transfered to HTML through an LMX processor (which I think is a terrible idea). I was looking for more information on stylesheets and presenting XML. This was a terrific book, and I learned a lot from it, but I just didn't learn the lessons that I was hoping to learn.
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Summary: Don't know what to do after first contact with Java.
Review: This books provide details, tools and WORKING EXAMPLES into technology such as Java Bean, SSL, XML parse, Servlet, JDBC. This will help you understand Java and XML more with the tools comes in the disk.
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Summary: Quite good
Review: This is a very good book, for the problem space it explains. It does not require much knowledge from the reader, just the most basic knowledge of Java and having looked at an XML document before. It has a handy reference at the back, which is better than going through the online Javadocs. Some nice chapters: Ch 6: Interfacing Databases and XML Ch 7: Exchanging Messages Securely on the Internet Ch 8: Developing Applications Using JavaBeans These are chapters after the introductory chapters that tell you how to use XML, manipulate it, etc. These chapters 6-8 introduce you to their subjects without assuming almost nothing in the way of knowledge. So, this is probably a book to browse through before you buy it, or order it and return if it's not for you. For some people, this will land immediately in a very useful area. For others, it might assume too much or too little.
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Summary: The best book on XML Java
Review: This is simply the best book for Java XML. Chapter 2 will guide you through the complacating start-up code and will help you up-and-running in no time. As soon as you finish chapter 2 , u can write a simple but good enough java code to process the xml tree. Chapter 3 is more advanced if you wanna build the xml tree. I was doing some researches and found this book to be the most helpful book on the market (the other books such as Professional Java XML is the worst book , thus stay away from Professional Java XML because of the lengthy explanation but lacking examples) There are many parsers for XML, this book focuses on the most popular parser developed by IBM and will prevail over the other parsers. Thus, if you wanna use IBM_developed parsers for your projects, this is the MUST.
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