McLaughlin has been working in computers since the Logo days. He currently specializes in building application infrastructure using Java and Java-related technologies.
Java and XML: Solutions to Real-World Problems
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ISBN-13:
9780596552282
- Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
- Publication date: 12/08/2006
- Sold by: Barnes & Noble
- Format: eBook
- Pages: 482
- File size: 5 MB
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Java and XML, 3rd Edition, shows you how to cut through all the hype about XML and put it to work. It teaches you how to use the APIs, tools, and tricks of XML to build real-world applications. The result is a new approach to managing information that touches everything from configuration files to web sites.
After two chapters on XML basics, including XPath, XSL, DTDs, and XML Schema, the rest of the book focuses on using XML from your Java applications. This third edition of Java and XML covers all major Java XML processing libraries, including full coverage of the SAX, DOM, StAX, JDOM, and dom4j APIs as well as the latest version of the Java API for XML Processing (JAXP) and Java Architecture for XML Binding (JAXB). The chapters on web technology have been entirely rewritten to focus on the today's most relevant topics: syndicating content with RSS and creating Web 2.0 applications. You'll learn how to create, read, and modify RSS feeds for syndicated content and use XML to power the next generation of websites with Ajax and Adobe Flash.
Topics include:
- The basics of XML, including DTDs, namespaces, XML Schema, XPath, and Transformations
- The SAX API, including all handlers, filters, and writers
- The DOM API, including DOM Level 2, Level 3, and the DOM HTML module
- The JDOM API, including the core and a look at XPath support
- The StAX API, including StAX factories, producing documents and XMLPull
- Data Binding with JAXB, using the new JAXB 2.0 annotations
- Web syndication and podcasting with RSS
- XML on the Presentation Layer, paying attention to Ajax and Flash applications
If you are developing with Java and need to use XML, or think that you will be in the future; if you're involved in the new peer-to-peer movement, messaging, or web services; or if you're developing software for electronic commerce, Java and XML will be an indispensable companion.
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Java: portable code. XML: portable data. The two should go together like peas in a pod. But, as Java developers have discovered, it's not always as easy as advertised. There are solutions, however, and you'll find them in Java and XML, the industry's most systematic guide to integrating these two vital technologies.
Brett McLaughlin starts with a detailed grounding in XML for Java developers, followed by in-depth coverage of the two most widely-used Java tools for handling XML data: the Simple API for XML, and the Document Object Model (DOM). As McLaughlin has pointed out elsewhere, neither of these tools are perfect: SAX is fast but unfamiliar, and doesn't allow changes to underlying XML data. DOM is powerful but requires a far deeper understanding of XML. Still, if you use them judiciously, you can accomplish quite a bit and McLaughlin shows you how, identifying challenges and pitfalls, and presenting realistic solutions.
Next, McLaughlin introduces the Java APIs for XML, which offers Java developers what they really want: a way to obtain a DOM document or SAX-compliant parser through a simple factory class, without worrying about the complexities of varying parser implementations. There's also an authoritative look at the new JDOM 1.0 spec which McLaughlin co-wrote. JDOM is shaping up as a breakthrough: it enables Java developers to manipulate XML using familiar techniques and usage patterns, without worrying about strict tree models.
In the second half of the book, McLaughlin lays out specific solutions to the issues Java andXMLdevelopers face most often: using XML with remote procedure calls; storing configuration data inXML formats; XML-based B2B communication; and more. From start to finish, Java and XML is thorough, carefully written, replete with code, and extremely realistic.
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