Re: Is the XMLC book still relevant?

On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, David H. Young wrote:

> Young here... obviously the dynamic loading/reloading stuff is obsolete 
> now, but the majority of the book is still very relevant.  We're doing a 
> huge project here at SAMBA with xmlc and tomcat... leveraging the 
> Composite View pattern that I describe in the presentation strategies 
> section.  I'm not making any money off the book... especially now that 
> it's out of print.  But I'm having a lot of fun re-reading it for a 
> telesales web app that I'm building.
> 
> The stuff on building tables, strategies for page designs, using the the 
> ability to generate interface and implementation files so that you can 
> load multiple page implementations to that one interface... it's all 
> still current.
> 
> David

Ah thanks for the update.
Your book is available via O'Reillys Safari program, so I added it to my
bookshelf and am reading it now.

We are looking to do some XMLC and Tomcat integration ourselves, as part
of a plan to migrate away from JSP/Struts/Custom Tags.

-Justin

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