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Product: Book - Paperback
Title: XDoclet in Action (In Action series) Publisher: Manning Publications Authors: Craig Walls, Norman Richards Rating: 5/5  I got this book and within the first week had all of my ejbs, struts framework, web descriptors created thru xdoclet. Now I just need to convince the client that the rest of the developers need to jump on board for their other projects and use this excellent tool. A must have for any web/j2ee java developers.
Product: Book - Paperback
Title: XML Programming Bible (Bible) Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Authors: Brian Benz, John Durant, John Durant Rating: 5/5 Because I do a lot of XML and XSLT my shelves are littered with XML and XSLT books. Although the information I am looking for is somewhere on the shelf, I sometimes have a hard time finding it. The first part of the XML Programming Bible largely fixes this problem. It provides the core information in an easy to find manner. For example, the XML Schema (XSD) elements are alphabetically listed as a group instead of broken out on the basis of there task. It also includes the type of minutiae I occasionally can't avoid - like the long list of the current DOM working drafts. This part of the book hit the right slot for me between a primer and deeper reference texts that sometimes obscure basic information with more details than I want to accomplish a given task. The second and third sections offer an overview of using XML in Office and J2EE respectively. The fourth section is an overview of interacting with relational data. This part is a light reference into technologies like SQLXML but it should be enough to get you started, such as interacting directly with SQL Sever with FOR XML and updategrams. The book ends with four sections on Web Services. The nice thing about the WebServices sections is that it covers a bunch of technologies used on both .NET and Java/Unix platforms. The coverage of individual technologies isn't deep, but it's enough to understand the basic approach and capabilities of each tool. I don't need this type of information often, but nothing previously on my shelf covered this range of technologies. This isn't a book for rank XML beginners. It doesn't spend waste explaining well-known fundamentals or the grisly history of schemas. Nor is it an in depth reference on any of the topics it covers. But it captures the depth I need when I'm trying to remember some specific piece of information, need a quick review, or need to dive into something I haven't done before - like working with XML from Excel.
Product: Book - Hardcover
Title: Cisco BGP-4 Command & Configuration Handbook Publisher: Pearson Education Authors: William R. Parkhurst, Ph.D., William R. Parkhurst Rating: 3/5  This is one good book on BGP with an error a page. The good point about this book is it uses minimal routers for examples and demos. It also has excellent troubleshooting diagnosing documentation. This book could do better with editing.Just too many mistakes.
Product: Book - Hardcover
Title: CISSP All-in-One Exam Guide, Second Edition (All-in-One) Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Authors: Shon Harris, Shon Harris Rating: 3/5 Good reference for CISSP. Easily comprehensible material. BTW, curious to know, has anybody taken CISSP exam, and not passed?
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