Java and XML

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Java and XML, 2nd Edition

Solutions to Real-World Problems

By Brett McLaughlin

Publisher: O'Reilly Media

Final Release Date: August 2001

Pages: 528

While the XML "buzz" still dominates talk among Internet developers, the critical need is for information that cuts through the hype and lets Java programmers put XML to work. Java & XML shows how to use the APIs, tools, and tricks of XML to build real-world applications, with the end result that both the data and the code are portable.This second edition of Java & XML adds chapters on Advanced SAX and Advanced DOM, new chapters on SOAP and data binding, and new examples throughout. A concise chapter on XML basics introduces concepts, and the rest of the book focuses on using XML from your Java applications. Java developers who need to work with XML, or think that they will in the future--as well as developers involved in the new peer-to-peer movement, messaging, or web services--will find the new Java & XML a constant companion.This book covers:

The basics of XML, including DTDs, namespaces, XML Schema, XPath, and XSL
The SAX API, including all handlers, the SAX 2 extensions, filters, and writers
The DOM API, including DOM Level 2, Level 3, and the Traversal, Range, CSS, Events, and HTML modules.
The JDOM API, including the core, a look at XPath support, and JDOM as a JSR
Using web publishing frameworks like Apache Cocoon
Developing applications with XML-RPC
Using SOAP and UDDI for web services
Data Binding, using both DTDs and XML Schema for constraints
Building business-to-business applications with XML
Building information channels with RSS and dynamic content with XSP

Includes a quick reference on SAX 2.0, DOM Level 2, and JDOM.

Chapter 1 Introduction
1. XML Matters
2. What’s Important?
3. The Essentials
4. What’s Next?
Chapter 2 Nuts and Bolts
1. The Basics
2. Constraints
3. Transformations
4. And More...
5. What’s Next?
Chapter 3 SAX
1. Getting Prepared
2. SAX Readers
3. Content Handlers
4. Error Handlers
5. Gotcha!
6. What’s Next?
Chapter 4 Advanced SAX
1. Properties and Features
2. More Handlers
3. Filters and Writers
4. Even More Handlers
5. Gotcha!
6. What’s Next?
Chapter 5 DOM
1. The Document Object Model
2. Serialization
3. Mutability
4. Gotcha!
5. What’s Next?
Chapter 6 Advanced DOM
1. Changes
2. Namespaces
3. DOM Level 2 Modules
4. DOM Level 3
5. Gotcha!
6. What’s Next?
Chapter 7 JDOM
1. The Basics
2. PropsToXML
3. XMLProperties
4. Is JDOM a Standard?
5. Gotcha!
6. What’s Next?
Chapter 8 Advanced JDOM
1. Helpful JDOM Internals
2. JDOM and Factories
3. Wrappers and Decorators
4. Gotcha!
5. What’s Next?
Chapter 9 JAXP
1. API or Abstraction
2. JAXP 1.0
3. JAXP 1.1
4. Gotcha!
5. What’s Next?
Chapter 10 Web Publishing Frameworks
1. Selecting a Framework
2. Installation
3. Using a Publishing Framework
4. XSP
5. Cocoon 2.0 and Beyond
6. What’s Next?
Chapter 11 XML-RPC
1. RPC Versus RMI
2. Saying Hello
3. Putting the Load on the Server
4. The Real World
5. What’s Next?
Chapter 12 SOAP
1. Starting Out
2. Setting Up
3. Getting Dirty
4. Going Further
5. What’s Next?
Chapter 13 Web Services
1. Web Services
2. UDDI
3. WSDL
4. Putting It All Together
5. What’s Next?
Chapter 14 Content Syndication
1. The Foobar Public Library
2. mytechbooks.com
3. Push Versus Pull
4. What’s Next?
Chapter 15 Data Binding
1. First Principles
2. Castor
3. Zeus
4. JAXB
5. What’s Next?
Chapter 16 Looking Forward
1. XLink
2. XPointer
3. XML Schema Bindings
4. And the Rest. . .
5. What’s Next?

Appendix API Reference
1. SAX 2.0
2. DOM Level 2
3. JAXP 1.1
4. JDOM 1.0 (Beta 7)
Appendix SAX 2.0 Features and Properties
1. Core Features
2. Core Properties
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Java & XML, 2nd Edition Review

By Antonio Rodriguez of the Columbia Java Users Group

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Comments about O'Reilly Media Java and XML, 2nd Edition:

This book contains an enormous wealth of information about Java's tying with the essentials of XML. I'd still recommend obtaining another book exclusively on the intricacies of XML, since only the basics are covered in this book. XML contains a lot more than the few pages that this book talks of it.

But XML is nothing without the software that interprets, handles and otherwise processes the format, and this book details this tying in with the Java language very well. Java parsers, APIs (SAX, DOM and JDOM), web services, everything is covered.

One book that your Java programming bookcase should not be without!!

11/11/2002

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Java & XML, 2nd Edition Review

By Robert

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Comments about O'Reilly Media Java and XML, 2nd Edition:

I agree with the excellence of this book. I haven't found such detailed description in WSDL and SOAP messages from other source. But I have a problem to running the SOAP messages example from Chapter 13. I use Tomcat 4.1.12 and SOAP 2.3.1, tried both JDK 1.3 and 1.4. The deployment seemed OK, but when I ran the Client, I got the following exception. From the discussion group of Apache SOAP, somebody suggested this might be a version incompatiblity of Xerces and Tomcat, but I tried to rename the xerces.jar to a_xerces.jar in %Tomcat_home%/common/lib directory to let it be loaded at the very beginning when Tomcat started (for JDK1.3) and put xerces.jar in %Tomcat_home%/common/endorsed and remove other parsers in this directory (for JDK 1.4, this is a new feature only in 1.4). But I kept getting this exception. I also tried other simple example from other resource and got the same response. So it seemed the problem was my environment, not the example. Does anybody know the solution? My OS is Windows XP Professional. Thanks a lot.

SOAP-ENV:Server

Exception while handling service request: javaxml2.OrderProcessor.purchaseOrder(org.apache.soap.Envelope,org.apache.soap.rpc.SOAPContext,org.apache.soap.rpc.SOAPContext) -- no signature match

/soap/servlet/messagerouter

java.lang.NoSuchMethodException: javaxml2.OrderProcessor.purchaseOrder(org.apache.soap.Envelope,org.apache.soap.rpc.SOAPContext,org.apache.soap.rpc.SOAPContext) -- no signature match

at org.apache.soap.util.MethodUtils.getEntryPoint(MethodUtils.java:194)

at org.apache.soap.util.MethodUtils.getMethod(MethodUtils.java:548)

at org.apache.soap.util.MethodUtils.getMethod(MethodUtils.java:528)

at org.apache.soap.server.MessageRouter.invoke(MessageRouter.java:54)

at org.apache.soap.providers.MsgJavaProvider.invoke(MsgJavaProvider.java:125)

at org.apache.soap.server.http.MessageRouterServlet.doPost(MessageRouterServlet.java:308)

at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:760)

at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)

at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:247)

at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:193)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:260)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:643)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:480)

at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:995)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:191)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:643)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:480)

at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:995)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.invoke(StandardContext.java:2396)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:180)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:643)

at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorDispatcherValve.invoke(ErrorDispatcherValve.java:170)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:641)

at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:172)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:641)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:480)

at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:995)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:174)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:643)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:480)

at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:995)

at org.apache.coyote.tomcat4.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:223)

at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:405)

at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11Protocol.java:380)

at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:508)

at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:533)

at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:536)

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Java & XML, 2nd Edition Review

By Arthur Casale

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The book assumes a much higher level of proficiency than I expected. It really (especially)glossed what it takes to set up the run time web server environment (setting up Tomcat server, etc.) A page or two of step-by-step instructions on what the CLASSPATH needs to look like and the Apache directory structure should look like would have saved me countless hours and emails. I realize there are web sites out there on Tomcat and it really isn't the focus of the book but in order to run the examples one shouldn't assume a familiarity. Authors forget that many folks are learning this without the benefit of an expert nearby.

5/8/2002

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Java & XML, 2nd Edition Review

By Greggbert

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This is one of those "must have" books for any Java developer today. It's a career saver when you need a quick example and some clear guidance. The chapter on JDOM alone is worth the price of the book !

2/19/2002

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The perfect "hands on" book for Java Programmers wanting to play with XML.

11/27/2001

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Java & XML, 2nd Edition Review

By Neil Laurance

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At last. All those pesky acronyms - SAX, JDOM, SAXP etc... - explained. In fact - better than explained, described with such clarity and with so many interesting examples that I was disappointed to finish the book. Nice one!!

9/27/2001

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Java & XML, 2nd Edition Review

By Zohra Hemani

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This is an excellent book and exactly what I needed. I had been looking for a good book that actually tells you how to work with SOAP and give examples in Java and this is the best one I found!!! Good Job! :)

9/24/2001

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Excellent update to the 1st edition. Given the changing environment that the topic involves, the author covers the information in a clear and detailed manner. The examples were very handy in explaining how these different standards can be implemented using Java. Although it was covered, I would have liked to see more detail on HTTP handling servers for both SOAP and other XML format messages via servlets.

Great addition to my library!

9/11/2001

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I just wanted to be the first one to respond. Even though I stll have yet to buy it, I scanned through a copy that a co-worker friend just bought over the weekend and I must say that from what I saw, I will definitly get it SOON!

This book looks like just what we as Java developers have been looking and hoping for quite a while.

Good work!

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Chapter 1 Introduction

XML Matters

What’s Important?

The Essentials

What’s Next?

Chapter 2 Nuts and Bolts

The Basics

Constraints

Transformations

And More...

What’s Next?

Chapter 3 SAX

Getting Prepared

SAX Readers

Content Handlers

Error Handlers

Gotcha!

What’s Next?

Chapter 4 Advanced SAX

Properties and Features

More Handlers

Filters and Writers

Even More Handlers

Gotcha!

What’s Next?

Chapter 5 DOM

The Document Object Model

Serialization

Mutability

Gotcha!

What’s Next?

Chapter 6 Advanced DOM

Changes

Namespaces

DOM Level 2 Modules

DOM Level 3

Gotcha!

What’s Next?

Chapter 7 JDOM

The Basics

PropsToXML

XMLProperties

Is JDOM a Standard?

Gotcha!

What’s Next?

Chapter 8 Advanced JDOM

Helpful JDOM Internals

JDOM and Factories

Wrappers and Decorators

Gotcha!

What’s Next?

Chapter 9 JAXP

API or Abstraction

JAXP 1.0

JAXP 1.1

Gotcha!

What’s Next?

Chapter 10 Web Publishing Frameworks

Selecting a Framework

Installation

Using a Publishing Framework

XSP

Cocoon 2.0 and Beyond

What’s Next?

Chapter 11 XML-RPC

RPC Versus RMI

Saying Hello

Putting the Load on the Server

The Real World

What’s Next?

Chapter 12 SOAP

Starting Out

Setting Up

Getting Dirty

Going Further

What’s Next?

Chapter 13 Web Services

Web Services

UDDI

WSDL