Professional Java XML Programming with Servlets and JSP (Programmer to Programmer)

click here for more details, find new or used items	Alexander Nakhimovsky, Tom Myers, Tom Meyers, Sasha Nakhimovsky New from £17.32 Used from £0.10 Pages: 772 (Paperback) ISBN: 1861002858 Pub: WROX Press Ltd Pub date: 1999-12 Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 316104

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Topics covered: Java servlet basics, 3-tiered architectures, JDBC and servlet APIs, sample custom framework for servlets, HTML basics, database connection pooling, language, grammars and parsers, context-free and context-sensitive grammars, XML and SGML basics, XHMTL vs. HTML, XML documents, XML namespaces, entities and DTDs, elements and attributes, the XML Document Object Model (DOM), the Simple API for XML (SAX), Sun's Java XML toolkit, JSPs and JavaBean basics, JavaMail APIs, XSLT and XPath.

Reader Reviews:

Lousy , no help for real world Java XML programming (2/3 people found this helpful)

I have just put my copy in a bag for a charity shop as it had been gathering dust for over a year! The whole book builds up an elaborate framework of the authors choosing , which is of no use in the real world where we want to learn how to do something. Sadly this book is typical of Wrox efforts which seem not to be aimed at programmers at all.

Not useful to real world programmers (1/1 people found this helpful)

A very poor book , heavy going with lots of examples which build on examples used earlier on in the books this which hinders 'diving in and using the code' , if you want to do things exactly as the authors have done fine , but if you don't then you're on your own. a combo of Core servlets and java server pages by Marty Hall and Brett Mcglauglin's Java and XML is a much better intro to these topics.

A clear practical exposition of java, xml and related things (1/1 people found this helpful)

Covers a lot more than just java and xml, all in moderate depth. The emphasis is on providing the java/xml info quickly within the framework of a good overview of related technologies and practical examples. If you want Just Java/XML, look elsewhere, but if you want to jump quickly to the latest and greatest, this is for you.

A very dense book that covers a lot of ground (1/1 people found this helpful)

This book is in the WROX professional series for a good reason. It has practical coverage of many subjects that include XML, JSP, JavaMail, ECS and servlets. The text uses a number of applications that it walks through in great detail to explain the use of the aforementioned standards in real applications. It is not a reference text for any of the standards mentioned but more focussed on the use of them in programs that do useful things.

The text is quite dense and would benefit from the addition of more visual metaphors for the application behaviour. UML collaboration diagrams come to mind and would certainly have helped me to more rapidly absorb the material.

A lot of wasted paper (1/1 people found this helpful)

The book covers a lot of subjects, but none of them is covered in depth. It seems that the authors tried to make the book thick by all means: they included the API for the JDBC, JavaMail and a lot of other filler stuff. There is plenty of obscure examples, that do not explain anything, but still fill the pages. The Java XML tutorial on the web is much more useful. What a pity that I did not ask for a refund! Don't waste your money

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