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Rating: - Another poorly written Computer Science book
While not the worst computer book that I have read; this one straddles the fence quite nicely. The author seems to know his subject, but is a bit scatter brained in places. In some instances I have to re-read paragraphs as if it were code itself. It only gets two stars, because grammar seems to be as important as content. It's an okay book otherwise, but the could have left out the xml primer, as it wasn't very meaningful. The overall content of the book is good, but nothing really seems to stand out here.

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Rating: - Bad book to read
If you looking for a book with good grammer and easy to understand setences, this is not a book for you. Simply reading the first chapter would frustrate me; the author would should some complex example and then would mislead the reader that he would be explaining the example thorough. Instead, he would mention a small portion of the example and claimed that it would take too long to explain the example. For goodness sake, if the example is too complex to explain, then please use a simpler example - don;t try to impress the reader with a complex example only to refer to some other Oreilly books. Do you notice that he does not refer books other than those published by Oreilly?

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Rating: - Good Intentions, but not a good learning book.
This is a very hard book to read. Not because of the subject, but because of the author's writing style and the fact that he introduces subjects and then referring them to the upcoming chapters.

Overall, it covers the essential subjects, like the interaction between Java and XML and covers DOM, SAX, JAXP, but I wouldn't use this book as a learning tool. Might be a good reference.

I would recommend XML Development With Java 2 by Michael Daconta, SAMS Publishing. To learn XML in detail, I would recommend the Professioanl XML, Wrox Publishing.

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Rating: - Overall, an Okay book
Sometimes you come across a technical book that you can't put down, the language is clear, the examples are useful and the author keeps you focused. Well, this is NOT an example of such book.

The author covers the subject, but it was a hard book to read and stay interested in.

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Rating: - Too tough for a starter
This book is no doubt good, but is not really worth your money if you dont know a lot of Java and a little bit of XML. I have started with it and I already need a couple of other reference books. If you are a newcomer get a good reference book. This book is a little bit too tough.

There are examples, but they are scarce and too tough to grasp. O'Reilly is surely known for its quality books and it sure is but definetely not for someone new to Java and XML.