[.ca] Cocoon Developer's Handbook (ISBN 0672322579)

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.

Difficult made simple:
I bought the book Friday, started to read it that day (after work), continued the reading Saturday, and by Sunday evening I had ported almost the whole website for my workplace from Struts to Cocoon! The book transforms a very complex subject to a comprehensible level, to the point that you will be Cocooning just after a few days like an expert! My advice: GET THE BOOK! RCS

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.

Good book to get started:
I found this book to be a great help for getting started with the cocoon webpublishing framework. It is much easier to understand and better structured than the documentation on cocoon.apache.org. The only thing I didn't like is that some chapters promise information that they don't provide. E.g. there's a "chapter" about writing a custom transformer component, that I saw in the table of content and was eager to read. It turns out that this is just half of a page explaining that the author wil NOT discuss custom transformers. Also some other chapters that scratch the surface of some advanced/complex topics lack the depths that I hoped for in a 700 page book. But nevertheless the book is worth its money and I would recommend it to anyone who plans his first cocoon project.

A practical, detailed guide:
Cocoon is one of the showpieces of the Apache XML project. It is a powerful framework that allows developers to more efficiently set up, create, and maintain sophisticated Web-oriented applications. Cocoon has attracted widespread attention because it solves a substantial problem for Web developers. Yet Cocoon's reliance on a wide array of open source technologies and standards makes it very complex. And, unlike some other open source technologies, Cocoon's online documentation is sparse and inadequate. Lajos Moczar's Cocoon Developer's Handbook is a practical, detailed guide for intermediate to advanced level developers who need to learn how to implement the Cocoon framework in a Web XML publishing system. Cocoon Developer's Handbook is not a theoretical work about XSL, XSP, and XSLT standards, but rather a hands-on explanation of these technologies within the Cocoon framework, with examples and solutions to get developers up and running with Cocoon.