Great book for a great price and service
I did not find any other book which covers that much details.
It good for the pros. and beginners alike. I like to see its second edition covering v2.2 coming out soon.
The only drawback is the lack of CD but otherwise a must read for those who want to implement this web publishing framework.
The service was good and I recieve the book in the exact quality as mentioned.
Thanks
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Unless you are using Cocoon 2.1.x or earlier, you are better off trying to learn from online tutorials or by asking questions at an online Cocoon forum. Relative to other Cocoon books available, this one is very good. Relative to 2008 and the release of Cocoon 2.2, this book is almost useless.
Simply Outdated
Sorry guys I know I should have wrote this one sooner. I went to a local bookstore here in Taipei and I bumped into someone who was buying this book. If only I could speak mandarin I would have told him that this book is simply OUTDATED because Cocoon has always been changing. It has never been, and may take a long time for it to be a full blown butterfly :)
The book is great. It taught me a lot of stuff. Let us just say buying this book is like buying a book with a title "Mastering Windows 95 in one month".
I am not going to preach on staying away as far as you can with Cocoon, not the book, even if it almost cost us our project but take a good, very good, look at the Table of Contents and see if the stuffs there are still supported by Cocoon. Or go to Cocoon website and decide on which stuff you would like to use (god bless you) and check if they are in this book.
If I am to rate this book regardless of whether or not its updated, I will give it 5 star or even 6. It's a great book for academic engagement ONLY.
A useful introduction to Cocoon
I'm using Cocoon, and i was looking for a good book to help me in developing XML based web sites.
I buyed this book and i'm really satisfied. It is simple and complete. The book follows a well defined learning path. Some chapters, which analyzes advanced features in Cocoon(like SOAP, Internazionalization, ...), are extremely useful.
Pretty Darn Good
I normaly spend my time cringing at the writing of computer science authors. This book is fairly straight forward. It skips a beat here and there, but not so much that it stops one dead in the tracks. It is an exhaustive read and only on the basics. I thought that more depth is eventually needed when Cocoon gets finalized, but this is about as good as it gets right now.
