Westy Rockwell Web Development and Design English

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by Westy Rockwell

ISBN: 0735710899
ISBN13: 978-0735710894
Language: English
Publisher: New Riders Pub (July 19, 2001)
Pages: 768
Category: Web Development and Design
Subategory: Technologies

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The book is a practical, hands-on experience in building web applications based on XML and Java technologies. This book is unique because it teaches the technologies by using them to build a web chat project throughout the book.

The book is a practical, hands-on experience in building web applications based on XML and Java technologies. The tools that are used are the extremely popular open-source tools from the Apache Software Foundation, namely Jakarta Tomcat, Apache Xerces and Apache Xalan.

and JSP. : A Case Study in. Developing a. Web Application. A good case study teaches how to use XML, XSLT, Java, and JSP technologies together successfully

A good case study teaches how to use XML, XSLT, Java, and JSP technologies together successfully. It explores and solves problems of case study in details. Thanks to New Riders for sharing the ideas of this intelligent author.

This book is a case study of a project using a combination of two of the . to implement and control Web applications -Make and deploy a Java Applet to control and refresh your Web application user interface -Utilize.

This book is a case study of a project using a combination of two of the hottest technologies around for. Mr Rockwell makes it quite clear that much of it is marked down for revision, as it should be in an iterative development process. 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. 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.

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This book is unique because it teaches the technologies by using them to build a web chat project throughout the book. XML, XSLT, Java, and JSP A Case Study in Developing a Web Application.

The book is a practical, hands-on experience in building web applications based on XML and Java technologies

The book is a practical, hands-on experience in building web applications based on XML and Java technologies.

Focused on strengthening the reader’s grasp of underlying mathematical concepts, the book combines an abundance of practical applications, examples, and other tools to simplify unnecessarily difficult solutions to varying engineering problems in communications, signal processing, networks, and associated fields. No current Talk conversations about this book.

As 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

Comments:

Crazy

I'll agree with those reviewers who were disappointed that this was not a practical tutorial on how to implement the titular technologies. That's what I was after when I bought the book which, admittedly, did not help me much with that. So I bought another book that did.

However, in the years since reading this, concepts Rockwell expressed keep coming back to me. I was not ready for this book when I read it, as I was a business-side tinkerer with no IT budget trying to solve a few practical problems. As my mastery of the programming art has advanced, however, I have been able to apply ideas recalled from this book -- often outside the universe of XML, XSLT, Java, and JSP.

Inexperienced readers just out to solve a particular problem might be frustrated with the lack of basic instructional focus, and formally trained programmers might be like "duh", but for those trying to make the transition, there's a lot of food for thought here. Maybe the book is just a rambling account of some guy's experimentation, but he's a smart guy with a lot to show you. If you can really get it for a penny, do.

Buge

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 precisely what the application is supposed to look like. Without any real design, the application ends up with one servlet of over 50 pages and another of over 40 pages in length. (The book is inflated with 300 pages of source listings that are unreadable.) As a case study in how to do bad design and write awful code, the book can serve as a warning perhaps. As far as actually trying to explain any of this technology, the author admits that isn't the purpose of the book. In a case study you like to hear of problems encountered or the different solutions attempted but you won't. No mention is made of security or performance. The code itself is useless and can't be used in other applications because it is so poorly designed. The author admits that huge chunks of code need to be refactored.
Overall this book fails to provide any real value.

Halloween

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 scope (detailed descriptions of web.xml and server.xml are out of scope?!) or that they should look on some other (somtimes unreachable) webpage.
For example, how do you tell Tomcat where to find your compiled classes? I would first try looking in the index for setting the Tomcat CLASSPATH.
The index has one entry for classpath and what does it tell me on page 17?
"If you are looking for some clarity regarding which, if any, setting for the CLASSPATH environment you should use, we can think of no better place for you to find answers than ...

Jelar

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 and data.
There are many books on JSPs but they tend to have minimal content on XSLT beyond how to set up a basic custom tag to drive an XSLT processor. Likewise there are many titles dealing with XSLT that have little detail on how to intergrate XSLT processing into a JSP based application. This book deals with how they can work together which is why I describe it as unique.
Another big plus for this book is that the content is non-trivial and discusses a real problem, not made up easy-peazy ones designed to show off this or that feature of the XML, XSL or JSP specifications.
The source code for the case study looks experimental becasue it is experimental. Mr Rockwell makes it quite clear that much of it is marked down for revision, as it should be in an iterative development process. It is not always easy to follow, but once you get into it you can see exactly what he's trying to do and there are some genuine nuggets in there which you won't find anywhere else.
In summary, if you want to use both XSLT and JSP custome tags in your web applications and you are trying to figure out how to do it, you should consider investing in this.

Danial

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 perspective. The primary reason I have for not rating it higher is that the technology is slightly out of date (given the publication date), especially with respect to XSLT and JSP, but this is hardly surprising given how rapidly these technologies evolve. If you want to learn about these technologies, look elsewhere. If you want an insight into how one developer built a web application, however, you should check this book out, you might be surprised.