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XML, XSLT, Java, and JSP: A Case Study in Developing a Web Application (Landmark)
 
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XML, XSLT, Java, and JSP: A Case Study in Developing a Web Application (Landmark) [Illustrated] (Paperback)

by Westy Rockwell (Author)
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  • Paperback: 768 pages
  • Publisher: QUE; illustrated edition edition (20 Jul 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0735710899
  • ISBN-13: 978-0735710894
  • Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 17.9 x 4.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,538,413 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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    #45 in  Books > Computing & Internet > Programming > Languages > XML > XSL & XSLT
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The book is a practical, hands-on experience in building web applications based on XML and Java technologies. This book is unique because it teaches the technologies by using them to build a web chat project throughout the book. The project is explained in great detail, after the reader is shown how to get and install the necessary tools to be able to customize this project and build other web applications. Of particular interest to readers will be the author's use in of XML in the book project as a language to express the architecture and design of the application itself, and not only the data content as is the usual case with "XML-based" applications. The book also contains some new and provocative techniques for XML storage using Java objects. The CD-ROM contains the web application project discussed in the book, which is a web chat called "bonForum." The complete source code is also provided. The files in the project consist of Java source and class files, HTML, JSP, XML, XSL, TLD, and image files.



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The book is a practical, hands-on experience in building web applications based on XML and Java technologies. This book is unique because it teaches the technologies by using them to build a web chat project throughout the book. The project is explained in great detail, after the reader is shown how to get and install the necessary tools to be able to customize this project and build other web applications. The tools that are used are the extremely popular open-source tools from the Apache Software Foundation, namely Jakarta Tomcat, Apache Xerces and Apache Xalan. Of particular interest to readers will be the authors use in of XML in the book project as a language to express the architecture and design of the application itself, and not only the data content as is the usual case with “XML-based” applications. The book also contains some new and provocative techniques for XML storage using Java objects. This book will be especially useful for those developers who are interested in deploying web applications using Apache Jakarta and XML products on Windows platforms, but can be used by all web application developers.

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1.0 out of 5 stars A nice idea, but it fails to deliver, 17 Sep 2001
By n.kelly@tesco.net (Bolton, England) - See all my reviews
When I spotted this book, it sounded like an ideal text; showing the end-to-end development of an example project combining several key technologies, such as JSP, XSLT and XML. However, although there was some useful information, this was normally shrouded by far too much detail on the author's pet project.

Although the reader obviously needs to be given an understanding of the project to make sense of how the technologies are being used, the author seems to have forgotten that the reader bought the book to understand the technologies!

If heavily edited and a third the size, it might be more useful.

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1.0 out of 5 stars A poor attempt at a case study, 22 Jan 2003
By Thomas Paul (Plainview, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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There are some books that are published that you wonder why the publisher went through the exercise. New Riders should have rejected this manuscript. It claims to be a case study of XML, XSLT, and JSP but it isn't. It is a confused and confusing discussion of the author playing around with technology.

The author wanted to try out some ideas so he decided to write a chat program. But there is no real design effort (you won't find a single UML diagram anywhere) so it is difficult to understand precisely what the application is supposed to look like. Without any real design, the application ends up with one servlet of over 50 pages and another of over 40 pages in length. (The book is inflated with 300 pages of source listings that are unreadable.) As a case study in how to do bad design and write awful code, the book can serve as a warning perhaps. As far as actually trying to explain any of this technology, the author admits that isn't the purpose of the book. In a case study you like to hear of problems encountered or the different solutions attempted but you won't. No mention is made of security or performance. The code itself is useless and can't be used in other applications because it is so poorly designed. The author admits that huge chunks of code need to be refactored.

Overall this book fails to provide any real value.

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