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Summary: An indispensable, invaluable reference
Review: Java and XML share features that are ideal for building Web-based enterprise applications including platform independence, extensibility, reusability, and global language support. Both are based on industry standards. Together Java and XML allow enterprises to simplify and lower their costs of information sharing and data exchange. In Java and XML, Brett McLaughlin draws upon his considerable expertise and experience to show the reader how to put these Java and XML together and thereby build real-world applications in which both the code and the data are truly portable. Very highly recommended for anyone developing software for electronic commerce, Java and XML covers the most recent version of DOM specification and the SAX API, and will become an indispensable, invaluable reference.
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Summary: Book is weak, but XML gem inside
Review: Some useful overview material, but the winner is the reference to Breeze XML Studio in the references section. This tool has saved us more time with XML and Java then we could have possibly imaged. Better books exist on XML and Java, though.
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Summary: It is a good book
Review: It would have been nice to include another chapter on creating and parsing XML documents using JAXP. The coverage of JAXP is insufficient. A good explanation of JDOM is provided but it is very hard to find the binaries for JDOM.
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Summary: Not as good as I thought it would be.....
Review: This seems to be the book everyone has on XML -based on Amazon reviews and word of mouth, I purchased it. I'm disappointed though; I personally didn't find the writing style to interest me or explain concepts very well. I suppose sometimes some books suit you and some don't.....I found the Que book "XML By Example" and Elizabeth Castro's "XML for the World Wide Web -Visual Quickstart Guide" to be considerably clearer and concise (though not quite as in depth admittedly). Maybe this doesn't deserve 3 stars but since I've picked up the two aforementioned books, I've never opened this up since and hence the rating.
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Summary: Really boring!
Review: This book is really verbose and boring. It could be compacted under 150 pages. The books talks how to use apache to pass xml file, and that's it. If you know how to pass xml even a little, don't take a look at it. The author give too much junk talks in the book like a fat old women. I cannot imagin how could this book get published!
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Summary: Is this really an O'Reilly book ?
Review: Trust me, this book is more like a Wrox one: wordy and confusing. I was used to the usual O'Reilly standard (Jason Hunter, Richard Monson-Haefel et al) and this book is horrible. By now you have guessed that I am a professional with experience in EJB and servlets, but not in XML. If you are on the same boat, this book is not for you (is this book for anybody at all ? I don't know). I tried to read this book a number of times, most of the times I dozed off. I haven't so far been able to reach the end of chapter 3. Believe me, I tried. Unfortunately for a Java programmer, the road to learn XML is still not very smooth, there are not many books around, forget about good books. I am sure if someone spends around 4 months on this book, 10 hours a day, weekends included, he/she will have a really good grasp on XML. But if I had that kind of time, then I am not a programmer and I wouldn't be reading an XML book in the first place. This is a very simple fact these Wrox-type authors choose to forget.
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Summary: Java and XML
Review: Lots of useful information, but I didn't like the stile. Too lengthly and comlex.
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Summary: not up to snuff
Review: This book is not up to O'Reilly's usual standards.
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Summary: Don't do it if you want to learn DOM
Review: Like many other readers here, I was very disappointed by this book. I love O'Reilly books, but this one is bad. The author editorializes far too much- constantly harping on DOM (the standard) and praising a non-standard technology (JDOM) constantly. We get it. Make the points and move on. Similarly, I can't stand the way the code samples are done. He presents skeletons and fills them out with bold code. At least for me, this simply doesn't work. So, if you need to know about DOM - this simply isn't the book.
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Summary: Please stop writing misleading reviews!
Review: I bought this book with a lot of expectations but to my disappointment found the book to contain shallow material on XML and examples (mostly trivial) that show how to use Beta APIs like JDOM. Most of the examples in the book are developed using JDOM and would somebody venture using beta api in production environment? Right now this book may be useful for reading from cover to cover and possibly in two days! Don't expect the book to give you examples or any useful information that can help you write code for your product that is going to be deployed in your customer's site.
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