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Summary: Excellent source for Cocoon novices. Some typos, but good.
Review: This book is a must have for anyone who is not satisfied with the documentation that comes with Cocoon. Other than a few typos, most notably in the source code examples (missing tag slashes and mis-named XML tags that may just be from previous versions), this book is excellent. If you want to really understand the power of Cocoon, this book is perfect. These two authors really know their stuff. Their detailed coverage of the sitemap and easy to follow examples make Cocoon much easier to understand. I could use more comments in the XML source code to help me understand the XSL files better, but I guess another book will cover that! Excellent book.
Rating: 
Summary: Broad coverage; easy to read
Review: This was my first Cocoon book. I consider myself a relative newcomer to the Java and XML world, and I found this book easy to read and informative over a range of topics relating to Cocoon 2. The book provides samples and three chapters are devoted to building an application using the concepts presented in the text. If you are new, I think 75% of this book will be readily understandable. The rest can be skimmed and read later after you've gained a more thorough knowledge of software development in general. That said, a quick introduction to XML is provided. I gave the book four stars because I thought they could have been more explicit and extensive in their examples. If you are new, you'll be okay. If you are a seasoned programmer wanting to learn Cocoon 2, you will not be disappointed.
Rating:
Summary: Broad coverage; easy to read
Review: This was my first Cocoon book. I consider myself a relative newcomer to the Java and XML world, and I found this book easy to read and informative over a range of topics relating to Cocoon 2. The book provides samples and three chapters are devoted to building an application using the concepts presented in the text. If you are new, I think 75% of this book will be readily understandable. The rest can be skimmed and read later after you've gained a more thorough knowledge of software development in general. That said, a quick introduction to XML is provided. I gave the book four stars because I thought they could have been more explicit and extensive in their examples. If you are new, you'll be okay. If you are a seasoned programmer wanting to learn Cocoon 2, you will not be disappointed.
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Summary: I will feel better if it cuts to half pages
Review: ~There is introduction on Internet and XML up to page 48. Who needs an introduction of Internet and XML if he is trying to work on Cocoon? Does that introduction helpful if one has no knowledge of Internet or XML anyway? There are appendix from page 343 to the end, page 480, that's 137 pages, plus 48 pages, totally 185 pages is basicly nothing. So you got less than 300 pages left maybe useful. I buy this book since there are only 3 books about Cocoon in the market. Now I am a bit regret.A~~ good developer does not mean a good author.~
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