Book description
With the help of XML and Java from scratch, you will build a Web site and application for ChaseWeb Furniture-a fictitious catalog furniture company. All of the information on products, prices, vendors, and so on, is rendered in XML. You'll learn how to display products on the company Web site, take orders, produce a paper catalog, and communicate with the external databases of vendors using XML. The from scratch format is designed to teach novice programmers the hows and whys of programming in the context of creating a functioning application.
Table of contents
- Copyright
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Tell Us What You Think!
- Introduction
- Vendor Pages: Styling XML with Cascading Style Sheets
- Product Pages: Transforming XML in the Browser Using XSL
- Defining the Data Structure: Document Type Definitions, XML Schema, and Parsers
-
Getting Serious: XSL Processors and Server-Side Processing
- XSL Processors
- Xalan
- Converting a File from the Command Line
- Advanced XSLT: Includes and Imports
- Java Basics
- Reading a File from a Java Application
- Transforming an XML File from Within a Java Program
- Advanced XSLT: Parameters
- Our First DOM: Stepping Through Our XML
- Automating Further: Adding Next and Previous Links
- Adding a Web Server to the Mix
- Installing and Configuring Tomcat
- The First Servlet
- Extracting Request Information
- Next Steps
- Taking Orders: Manipulating Data with JDOM
-
Adjusting Inventory: Using Namespaces and More About DOM
- Manipulating In-Memory Documents
- The Structure of a DOM Document
- Adding Nodes to a Document
- Serializing the Document
- Adding Namespaces
- Retrieving Namespace Information
- Creating the Review Page
- Working with the Results of the Transformation
- Working with Our Temporary Document
- The Final Style Sheet
- Collecting Payment Information
- Accepting Payment Information
- Next Steps
- Product Search: XQL
- Updating Inventory: SQL Databases and SAX
- Other Applications for XML (SOAP)
- Index
Product information
- Title: XML and Java™ from scratch
- Author(s):
- Release date: March 2001
- Publisher(s): Que
- ISBN: 9780789724762
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