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Title: Professional Java XML Programming with servlets and JSP by Alexander Nakhimovsky, Tom Myers ISBN: 1-86100-285-8 Publisher: Peer Information Inc. Pub. Date: December, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.65 (31 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: No nonsense for the seasoned developer
Comment: This book is outstanding. It is an extremely relevant and informative guide to some of the most current technologies that I am interested in.
The audience for this book is well - targeted. This is not a book for beginning java programmers. This is a book for professionals who have invested a substantial amount of time not only in Java, but in the more core studies of Computer Science.
The first several chapters concentrate on building a base of understanding for the rest of the book. The drive to develop n-tier applications is discussed with a detailed focus on the classic three - tier architecture. The shortcomings of common implementations are outlined, and the authors clearly define the source of the problem ... a lack of flexibility in design and implementation. The solution? Could it be XML? Well, XML and various supporting technologies (thus the title of the book).
Before delving into the world of the web, the authors take a chapter to fully explain the concepts of languages, grammars and parsing. This chapter could be skipped, but it could help prevent future design disasters that are so commonly associated with a lack of understanding of formal cfg and csg rules.
Four chapters are dedicated to the introduction and explanation of XML. These chapters outline the components of XML in a slightly odd order, but contain information essential to the understanding of the later chapters in the book.
The authors create a 'mini-language' as an example in one chapter, and I was not very impressed or interested in it, and found it to be of little value, other than to provide exercise using the XML concepts that had already been presented.
There is an appendix that summarizes the syntax of JSP, and I thought that the inclusion of the JSDK, JavaMail and JAF api's was a good thing, primarily because they are extension packages, but I didn't really see the need for the JDBC api to be included.
The remainder of the book is excellent, the JSP chapter is devoid of XML except to mention that JSP 1.x - compliant processors are required to accept JSP pages in XML syntax. This chapter was of more value to me than several tutorials, and entire books on JSP that I have read.
Using the code examples is a snap, assuming you are already familiar with basic java concepts, There is a detailed appendix on HTTP headers, and server response codes, which is helpful to know when just starting to program server-based applications.
For those who prefer to see the application of the technology, Chapter 11 and 12 outline a complete application that incorporates JSP, JavaMail and XML (with a few other resources).
To wrap it up, Chapter 13 covers XSLT and XPath, these are evolving technologies which are extremely powerful, and they are not even fully developed yet! This chapter uses the XML capabilities of IE5, and you should have it installed on the system you use to test their examples. The examples in this chapter are some of the most advanced and well laid out that i have seen. They even present a solution to the classic 8 Queens puzzle using only XSL, although they do warn us that this is an example of what not to do with XSLT, it is a great illustration of what can be done with it.
Again and again, the authors return to the architectural concept of using XML as a means of extending the flexibility of an application. This is a forward-looking book. That is to say that the authors are not afraid to envision the future use, applications, and capabilities that XML appears to be driving towards.
I would recommend this book for developers who are starting to develop distributed systems, up to those who have extensive experience with distributed applications and want to learn about XML as a tool for making more flexible distributed systems.
This book will be on my desk, within easy reach, for a long time...it should be on yours as well.
Rating: 5
Summary: not for novice
Comment: I love this book but obviously it is not for novice.
Rating: 1
Summary: An Internet Bubble Product!
Comment: An Internet Bubble Product!
If you invested in a DOT COM company in 1999 and you did not sell your stocks on time, you may have lost 99% of your money. If you bought this book (published in 1999), you probably lost all your money, because the book is really, really H-O-R-R-I-B-L-E.
1.The book title is "Professional Java XML Programming with Servlets and JSP" but you will neither learn XML nor Servlets/JSPs. Wrox publication tried to place it in the XML space but there is no so much XML to learn about... The book contains 772 pages but only 185 pages discuss XML. The authors were busy discussing Servlets, JDBC, XSLT XHTML etc... I was looking in the Index section, maybe I could find a good Home Insurance, as well...
2.Strategically, the book discusses two main XML parsers, DOM and SAX. Unfortunately, the authors chose to dedicate a larger portion of their discussion to the SAX parser. Most companies are using the DOM parser because of its extended capabilities, such as the ability to store tag data in a tree structure, provides better searching and better performance. The SAX parser is flat and lacks such capabilities.
The Internet Bubble created an inflation of bad books. I hope that in the future, publishers would put more attention to quality rather than to quantity.
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Title: XML, XSLT, Java, and JSP: A Case Study in Developing a Web Application by Westy Rockwell ISBN: 0735710899 Publisher: New Riders Press Pub. Date: 19 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Professional Java Programming by Brett Spell ISBN: 186100382X Publisher: Wrox Press Inc Pub. Date: 01 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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Title: Java and XSLT (O'Reilly Java) by Eric M. Burke ISBN: 0596001436 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: September, 2001 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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