Re: Is the XMLC book still relevant?

Hi Justin,

At 05:25 PM 9/29/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>Since the release of XMLC 2.2.x, I was wondering if the book 'Enhydra XMLC
>Java Presentation Development' by Young is still considered relevant and
>up-to-date?

I would say it is up to date.  Basic XMLC development strategies haven't 
really changed.  XMLC's implementation has simply changed to keep up with 
the various environments and standards that it needs to support.  Of 
course, if you use Enhydra along with XMLC, the book will be even more 
relevant since it walks you though an Enhydra application and, 
coincidentally, Enhydra 5.1 was just released.  However, one does not need 
to use Enhydra to learn from David's book.  Besides, you can't go wrong 
with the deals you can get.  Check out the prices at any of the top 
Internet booksellers.  Pretty affordable.

>If not, where is a good place to start learning about how to work with
>XMLC that is relatively up-to-date?

I think the book is the best place until someone gets around to writing 
some updated docs.  I would also check out the example applications that 
come with the binary releases.  They'll provide you with examples of Ant 
builds, container deployment (Tomcat), how to use the new deferred parsing 
and dynamic loading, and using XPath to query/manupulate nodes.

Jake

>Thanks,
>
>-Justin Akehurst
>
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