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Java & XML, 2nd Edition: Solutions to Real-World Problems
by Brett McLaughlin
from O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Features:

• Illustrated

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• A book worth owning
  The author covers some background, but mainly sticks to the business end of dealing with XML using java. The book is set out so you can read the parts that are relevant to getting a particular piece of technology working quickly.
  Before reading this book I had never written an XML parser, but within a couple of days I was able to rework a parser to make it work both faster and with a smaller memory footprint by following the guidelines in this book. The details are not covered in great depth, but... more info

• Good but could be more.
  Second editions are always great. However, I find that I dont like all of the API reference in the book. I would rather look at APIs electronically and talk concepts in the book.

• Good introduction, a little diffuse
  Compared with .NET and XML this book tends to wander and rat hole a little. The book covers the basics. The SAX and DOM approaches. It also covers XSLT and serving XML. It also covers advanced topics like Castor, JDOM, and web services. But most of the subjects are covered at a cursory level and do not serve as a complete introduction.

  There is a small reference at the end of the book which is not as easy to read as the APIs described in the Nutshell style.

  I gave this book four stars because, while it... more info

• No XML Security
  This book doesn't have anything I couldn't find by just looking at samples on Sun's site.

  Most of all, it's missing security like XML Signatures, and XML encryption.

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