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(More customer reviews)I just picked up "XML/UML" and am ecstatic!! I have to thank Dave for putting all of this practical info together. It is what I was so desperatly looking for. From all the dozens of books I've purused at the bookstores I can say this is the ONLY high level book about XML apps on the market. This book takes one beyond modelling and into the belly of the beast of real world application production.
I've looked at (and unfortunetly purchased) some of those tomes which are 3x the size but yet contained only 1/100th of the "actionable knowledge". I've even taken the Microsoft course "1905: Building XML Apps" but found it to be a bunch of *bs*. While it was a good primer who in the world is going to build a eCommerce app strictly with the DOM & XSLT??? The same is true of all the XML training tutorials on the web. But in all fairness all that other material just primed me for this book and the "grand schema" of things (pun intended).
Creating XML apps is much more than understanding XML/XSLT syntax, it's a high level architecture which is more complex than many of the web apps out there today. It was finally this book, which has modeled and integrated all the diverse concepts, which has allowed me to get my head around "how do I create, integrate and manage all the components surrounding XML". This isn't a beginners book but rather one for the person who is looking to weave various application protocols together and make a serious step forward with building the next generation apps today. These apps take a tremendous pooling of knowledge and resources and this book will put you and your team on the right path with the architecture & technology.
If you have some knowldege of XML & UML then this book will help you to take that to the next level of integration and more importantly, production. You don't just learn abstract "how-to's" but rather "how-to" in the context of a real project. Starting with assembling your team, working through UML models and transfering this into XML vocabularies and designing a "portal" from there. You then go through linking, validating and transforming your data and end up with a chapter on deployment options. What makes this so nice is that it all revolves around a single case study so you see how the overall process develops and flows.
The companion website is an excellent source not only for the code and updates but for all manner of info pertaining to XMl & UML.
Trust me... if you are into XML then you need it. This is THE book which will turn the tide for XML from industry hypeware into workable systems.
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XML is rapidly becoming the standard platform for delivering e-Business information and integrating e-Business systems. XML developers desperately need mature software development processes and tools for developing effective applications. David Carlson fills the gap, showing exactly how to leverage the worldwide UML standard for modeling complex systems in advanced XML development. In Modeling XML Applications with UML, he presents the first comprehensive framework for modeling communications in any B2B software system. Carlson presents in-depth coverage of UML-based analysis, design, and modeling of XML content within e-Business environments. The book includes detailed coverage of using UML to support the creation of new XML-based B2B vocabularies and industry portals that reflect the requirements of several key stakeholder communities, including consumers, business analysts, web application specialists, system integration specialists, and content developers. Carlson presents several B2B use cases, and then decomposes them into scenarios illustrated with class diagrams, sequence diagrams, and activity diagrams showing how XML fits into an overall e-Business solution.Each chapter concludes with "steps for success" that distill UML's general principles into specific recommendations for action.
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