Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 05.276 EAN: 9780735710894 ISBN: 0735710899 Label: New Riders Press Manufacturer: New Riders Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 768 Publication Date: July 19, 2001 Publisher: New Riders Press Sales Rank: 1530970 Studio: New Riders Press
Editorial Review:
Book DescriptionAs a Web Developer, you know the challenge of building robust applications on multiple platforms. Creating truly portable applications becomes possible by using Java for code and XML for organizing and managing data. 'XML, XSLT, Java, and JSP:A Case Study' will help you maximize the capabilities of XML, XSLT, Java, and JSP in your Web applications.
The author, Westy Rockwell, uses the hands-on approach of a case study to show you how to use these technologies in realistically complex situations. All the tools used in the case study are free, so you can obtain them and join the author in a real open source web chat application, available online and with the book CD-ROM. This book provides you with the information you need to fully utilize XML, XSLT, Java, and JSP in your web applications, and presents it in a practical and unique way through the case study.
With 'XML, XSLT, Java, and JSP: A Case Study,' you will learn how to:
-Build web applications based on XML, XSLT, Java Applets, Java Servlets and Java Server Pages
-Set up a Win32 Web application development environment based on the Java(TM) 2 SDK and freely obtainable, open-source software products from Apache Software Foundation: Tomcat, Xerces and Xalan (*Note all of these items are located on the CD-ROM attached with the book so you don't have to take the time to download)
-Use XML as a language to express the architecture and design of the application itself, not just its data content
-Create a browseable user interface for your web application with JSP
-Use an Http Servlet, beans, and JSP custom tags to implement and control Web applications
-Make and deploy a Java Applet to control and refresh your Web application user interface
-Utilize Xerces and Xalan for XML and XSLT, to provide dynamic content to a Web application.
-Experiment with new techniques for XML storage using Java objects
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Not recommended
Although the author patently knows his onions, it seems he hasn't a great deal of experience in conveying that information.
In my opinion, if you just want to see an example of web app creation and get a few (great) ideas, then yes, buy the book.
But if you want to figure out how to configure Tomcat, etc, in preparation for a new development, then look elsewhere.
The book spends a lot of its time telling the reader that what they need to know is either out of the ... Read More
Rating: - For some people a unique must have book
This book is a case study of a project using a combination of two of the hottest technologies around for delivering interactive web applications: XSLT and JSP Tags. It is not a text book. It is hard to give it a star rating because it is not particularly well written (the author is a better programmer than writer in my opinion) however the content is unique and will be of particular interest to those wanting to use both JSP and XSLT technologies to separate web page content from application code ... Read More
Rating: - For Serious Developers
I've found that this book goes in a lot of depth on a host of topics. I wouldn't recommend it for someone who is just starting out, because the topcs are pretty advanced, but for those who are looking a for a depth of study, this is definitely the way go to. It covers each topic in detail, with a realtive amount of background that helps cover the topic completely.
Rating: - A poor attempt at a case study
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 ... Read More
Rating: - A True Case Study
Having seen the other reviews, I was curious about this book. In short, the title does say it all, as the author presents a nice case study of how HE used XML, XSLT, Java and JSP to develop a Web application. As such, there is not a lot of discussion introducing these technologies - that is not the point of a case study. Instead, the reader is introduced to how the author explored the use of these technologies to building a specific application.
In this light, the book provides a very interesting ... Read More
- Not recommended
- For some people a unique must have book
- A True Case Study
