XML and Java: Developing Web Applications, Second Edition

Servlets

Professional Java XML Programming with servlets and JSP

Format: Paperback
Author: Alexander Nakhimovsky
ReleaseDate: December, 1999
Publisher: Peer Information Inc.
Rating:

not for novice
. I love this book but obviously it is not for novice.

Good concepts Bad Execution
Unfortunately this was the first book I bought from this particular publisher. I bought this book on impulse based on the title alone. God, I hope the others are not this badly organized.

As a professional Java programmer who has used all of the tachnologies in this book, I find that there are some good concepts here in terms of high-level OO design. Unfortunately, the organization of the book requires you to read through a lot of superfluous verbiage to get to the meat.

The criticisms mentioned in other reviews are valid and I won't repeat them here, except to reiterate that the author's academic roots do shine through on this book. The tone is written as if you were sitting in a lecture hall with all the time in world to discuss these concepts and the code examples are not written for performance or high volume traffic on a web site. As a Java professional who writes almost exclusively on the server-side, I found this iritating. There isn't enough time to wade through this book to get what you need when a project is due.

Very Confusing Book
I bought this book with the intention of learning how to leverage XML in JAVA apps and servlets. I am a professional programmer with a background in C++ Windows programming who started learning JAVA a year ago. I made it through the first chapter just fine and then all heck broke loose. I could not get the examples to work, the text became as clear as mud and I had to put the book down in disgust because every other chapter in the book lynchpins on knowledge from the previous one. This would not be a good buy in my humble opinion.