Professional Xml Development with Apache Tools: Xerces, Xalan, Fop, Cocoon, Axis, Xindice (Wrox Press) (Wrox Professional Guides)

click here for more details, find new or used items	Theodore W. Leung Our price £17.81 (£26.99) New from £9.38 Used from £8.50 Pages: 552 (Paperback) ISBN: 0764543555 Pub: John Wiley & Sons Pub date: 2003-12-19 Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 487685

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Not particularly good (1/1 people found this helpful)

With too wide a focus, this book is useful as an overview but holds nothing useful for a developer wanting anything more than a skim of knowledge.
And as for the quality of the paper it's printed on; don't get me started...

The best tutorial - but it costs more than googling (2/3 people found this helpful)

This book deals with a number of open-source XML tools developed by the Apache foundation and details how to use them in conjunction with Java. As well as clear explanations there's plenty of example code and, as the author is a member of the Apache Software Foundation, you can be confident that it's all being explained by someone who knows what they're talking about. It's assumed that the reader has a good knowledge of Java and XML and is also familiar with OO concepts and techniques - there isn't any explanation of the basics provided. This is good if you don't need all that stuff as it makes reading the book a much more manageble and simpler task as there aren't any simple explanations to skip over.
The main problem is that the web is full of free tutorials on all this stuff and to some extent you are just paying to have them collected together in a convenient printed format.
The tutorials are all really good and certainly a lot better than the majority of free ones on the web, but bearing in mind the availability of free tutorials and how quickly Open Source software changes it's debatable whether you'd want to spend your (or your employer's) money.

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