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Illustrates the principles of XML by building a web site and application for a fictitious catalogue furniture company. Chapters cover cascading style sheets, XSL processors, document type definitions, parsers, manipulating vendor data with JDOM, organizing inventory structure with name spaces and DOM, and using Java to access legacy SQL databases in conjunction with XML.

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With the help of XML and Java from scratch, you will build a Web site and application for ChaseWeb Furniture-a fictitious catalog furniture company. All of the information on products, prices, vendors, and so on, is rendered in XML. You'll learn how to display products on the company Web site, take orders, produce a paper catalog, and communicate with the external databases of vendors using XML. The from scratch format is designed to teach novice programmers the hows and whys of programming in the context of creating a functioning application.

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1.0 out of 5 stars TERRIBLE, April 13 2002

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Kyle (scranton, pa United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: XML and Java From Scratch (Paperback)

This book trying to cover everything among three-tier design within 470 pages, which is impossible. In order to understand this book, I need to read other books, like "Javaservlet" and "Beginning XML". But after I finish those reading, this book is not necessary anymore, so why wast time on this book? Some of the programs in this book are not executable and even worse.....some figures (screen shot) are misplaced.
My opinion of this book is "terrible"!

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2.0 out of 5 stars fustrating, Feb 19 2002

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IE efor (Miami Beach, FL USA) - See all my reviews

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I haven't finished the book yet but found it confusing. The examples are not completed, the reader doesn't have an example of the completed exersize. The author assumes the reader is using apache and tomcat servers. I don't know anyone using them, most developers I know use windows 2000 or NT, running IIS. JDOM is still beta and there's a whole chapter dedecated to JDOM, where it could have been spent on explaining SAX and DOM in further detail by applying useful simple examples. Overall I'm not impressed with the book. Better to read it at the book store and look for something better to purchase. Look for a text that uses IIS and not tomcat and apache, unless you are running those servers. This is not a beginners book, also purchase a JAVA/JSP text.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Don't be amazed by this book., Jan 22 2002

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Cesar "Tenor" (San Jose, Costa Rica) - See all my reviews

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This book tries to cover so many things at once --XML, Java, DB concepts, tools, Servlets, -- that it ends up teaching technically nothing. About half the contents of the book are XML non-related stuff.

The author tries to cover such a programming language like Java in 470 pages of so many things, that he even does some bad practice! For example, he starts teaching a way of reading the contents of a file in Java, and two pages after the example he explain the Exceptions issue. If you're a Java newbie, you'll be on a big trouble unless you read the whole chapter before typing anything. The author even tries to explain the relational database concept by ilustrating it with an Excel sheet!

I must confess that this book covers just the basics, since it wastes too much time in things it can't cover. This book would be better if it talks about XML only, and leaves Java and other subjects to the pros.

If you want to "get serious" (like the author says), then buy a book that goes deep into this matter, a book that doesn't talk about everything just to mention a bit of each.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Good Concept, but
In my opinion, The concept would have been good if the content was not so inept. The source code that was associated with this book was dismal, virtually useless. Read more

Published on Jan 1 2002 by Scott Armand

4.0 out of 5 stars Great book , but not really a intro book
The pace of this book was its best feature, starting with HTML and CSS and then slowly adding in XML & XSL before jumping into the enigma of server side transformations using... Read more

Published on Dec 16 2001 by Ken