XML and Java?: Developing Web Applications [With CDROM]

by Hiroshi Maruyama, Naohiko Uramoto, Kent Tamura, et al.

Assuming a basic knowledge of both XML and Java, this text provides Web developers and programmers in these languages with the skills they need to create Web-based applications. The CD-ROM provides... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0201770040
• ISBN13: 9780201770049
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
• Length: 688 Pages
• Weight: 2.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

A Clear Exposition on Building Applications on top of XML

[This is a review of the second edition.]It was with some trepidation that I opened this book. It has 9 authors. Sometimes this many can mean that the style varies widely between chapters, and that there may be little logical continuity. Glad am I to say that this book appears seamless. Thanks probably in part to good editorial management by the publisher.This is an advanced treatment of XML. It presupposes that you are already familiar with java and XML. The emphasis is on developing higher level applications that use XML as message medium. As a consequence of 8 of the authors being Japanese, they stress that for internationalisation, XML is a good choice for the medium. It was designed from the ground up to handle Unicode. This is needed to describe Chinese and Japanese, which, out of the major languages, are the hardest to deal with, because of the large number of symbols. You should design your applications to maximise outreach to as large a user base as possible. Native English speakers tend to live in a happy technological cocoon, because leading edge stuff mostly appears first in English speaking countries. It is easy when programming to inadvertantly build into your code restrictions to ascii or extended ascii. Then it becomes much harder larger to remove those. Whereas if you choose XML (andjava), you get internationalisation right out of the box.The discussion of DOM (Document Object Model) and SAX parsers is very nice. Especially in showing how to add SAX filters, and in quantitative estimates of runtime and memory usage of the two approaches. They make the point that XML processors are the result of intensive intellectual work, and that hence you should use these, instead of writing your own. More reliable, and you can concentrate on higher level issues.For more advanced XML uses, XML Schemas are described, largely supplanting DTDs, since they allow the easy handling of datatypes (like String and integer) and namespaces.They give succinct examples of how to connect XML messages to databases via Enterprise Java Beans. In doing so, Java Server Pages and servlets are explained. Very logical progression. Then the Web Services Description Language is introduced, along with showing how to use it with UDDI. Security via XML Digital Signatures and Certificate Authorities is then implemented.The logic flow is very clear. Plus the accompanying CD with the full example code is a great convenience for learning.

The best book on XML Java

This is simply the best book for Java XML. Chapter 2 will guide you through the complacating start-up code and will help you up-and-running in no time. As soon as you finish chapter 2 , u can write a simple but good enough java code to process the xml tree. Chapter 3 is more advanced if you wanna build the xml tree. I was doing some researches and found this book to be the most helpful book on the market (the other books such as Professional Java XML is the worst book , thus stay away from Professional Java XML because of the lengthy explanation but lacking examples) There are many parsers for XML, this book focuses on the most popular parser developed by IBM and will prevail over the other parsers. Thus, if you wanna use IBM_developed parsers for your projects, this is the MUST.

Security issues, data binding, Schema languages, & much more

Now in its revised and expanded second edition, XML and Java: Developing Web Applications is a solid reference and superbly organized guidebook written specifically for computer and website programmers. Individual chapters cogently address the basics of XML, parsing and serializing XML documents, using SAX, security issues, data binding, Schema languages, and much more. Instances of sample code help flesh out the principles taught step-by-step in this most instructive text. An accompanying CD-ROM contains sample programs ready to run, along with trial versions of WebSphere and DB2. XML and Java: Developing Web Applications is a very highly recommended resource and reference for web programmers at all skill and experience levels.

Perfect book for application architects, not for junior SE

The title of the book clearly suggested that this is not a beginner's book for either XML or Java. Although it is more appropriately named XML and Java Servlet. Because this book uses Servlets as a framework for web applications (which is a *VERY* good idea). This book presents ideas to system architects about ways to put together enabled web applications whose nature implies extensibility. The most valuable thing in this book is: 1. Explain why do we want to use XML (Important!) 2. How to parse, generate, and manipulate XML with concise examples. 3. Ideas on types of applications we can do with XML and the Servlet framework. 4. How to build tools such as LMX and SQLX which is quite essential in three-tiered systems. 5. You can read it in 2 days provided you're pretty familiar with Servlets and web application.