XML Technologies

The following books will be particularly useful in explaining the XML technologies that are crucial to using the ZimWeb effectively:

• XML By Example (2nd Edition) and
  Applied XML Solutions by
  Benoit Marchal – these will give you a good overview of the XML landscape.
• XSLT Programmer’s Reference 2nd Edition by
  Michael Kay – this is the reference book for XSLT, though it is a bit “heavy” to get you started –
  XML By Example (2nd Edition) is a much gentler introduction. But he knows his stuff – he wrote the
  Saxon XSLT processor.
• XSLT by
  Doug Tidwell – he’s a “technology evangelist” from IBM.
• XSLT Cookbook by
  Sal Mangano
• XSL-FO by
  Dave Pawson.

Java

If you want to learn about Java then take a look at these books:

General Java programming

• Learning Java, 2nd Edition by Patrick Niemeyer and Jonathan Knudsen – a great introduction to the Java language.
• Java in a Nutshell, 4th Edition by David Flanagan, and Java Enterprise in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition by William Crawford, Jim Farley and David Flanagan – together, these provide a useful reference for the Java language.

Server-side Java programming

• Java Servlet Programming, 2nd Edition by Jason Hunter with William Crawford – this is a very clear exposition of server-side Java programming.
• Professional Apache Tomcat by lots of authors. This recently-published book is really helpful in trying to get the best out of the Tomcat servlet engine.

ML Processing with Java

• Java & XML, 2nd Edition by Brett McLaughlin – this is an excellent explanation of this topic.
• Java and XSLT by Eric M. Burke – another excellent O’Reilly book.