XML and Java from Scratch [ILLUSTRATED] (Paperback)

by Nicholas Chase (Author)

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Product Description
With the help of XML and Java from scratch, you will build a Web site and application for ChaseWeb Furniture-a fictitious catalog furniture company. All of the information on products, prices, vendors, and so on, is rendered in XML. You'll learn how to display products on the company Web site, take orders, produce a paper catalog, and communicate with the external databases of vendors using XML. The from scratch format is designed to teach novice programmers the hows and whys of programming in the context of creating a functioning application.

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With the help of XML and Java from scratch, you will build a Web site and application for ChaseWeb Furniture-a fictitious catalog furniture company. All of the information on products, prices, vendors, and so on, is rendered in XML. You'll learn how to display products on the company Web site, take orders, produce a paper catalog, and communicate with the external databases of vendors using XML. The from scratch format is designed to teach novice programmers the hows and whys of programming in the context of creating a functioning application.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 496 pages
• Publisher: Que; illustrated edition edition (March 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0789724766
• ISBN-13: 978-0789724762
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.4 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,407,736 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good coverage and well laid out., April 7, 2001

By	"[e-mail]" (Canada) - See all my reviews

I am a big reader of tech manuals and as such I think that I have a good frame of reference when it comes to computer tech. manuals. This book is very well presented and laid out. The concepts are illustrated by examples and the text does not wander off into details that can easily be had on the web. The whole point of these books is to distill(clarify) the information that is available online. This book gets you up and running quickly.

Stef

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent if you already know server-side Java!, August 20, 2001

By	"eddiebee" (London, England, United Kingdom) - See all my reviews

The title of this book seems to imply that it is meant to teach you both Java and Xml in one go, but you really need to have already done some serious Java programming and particularly have a few servlets under your belt. It an excellent book for those who wish to learn the specifics of using Java to read and write Xml. It takes you by the hand and shows you how to turn your servlets into applications that can turn XML into any format for the web or B2B using SAX, DOM, JDOM in Java programs to take advantage of the power of XSL, XSLT and XSD.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars TERRIBLE, April 13, 2002

By	Kyle (scranton, pa United States) - See all my reviews

This book trying to cover everything among three-tier design within 470 pages, which is impossible. In order to understand this book, I need to read other books, like "Javaservlet" and "Beginning XML". But after I finish those reading, this book is not necessary anymore, so why wast time on this book? Some of the programs in this book are not executable and even worse.....some figures (screen shot) are misplaced.
My opinion of this book is "terrible"!