There are already two or three books available with Apache CXF, several
more if you consider the broader category of JAX-WS / SOAP or REST web
services.
Perhaps a book is less indicated for CXF compared to other projects
because it implements specifications that are already defined elsewhere
and implemented on multiple projects as well. Also, there are multiple
blogs on web services and we have pretty good online documentation, at
least compared to other projects that do have such books.
While Robert, being an author of multiple books himself, may be itching
himself to write another book--go to town, I say!--ultimately I have to
take issue with his premise that we "should" write a book. Most books
are notorious money-losers, the time put in vs. money derived from it in
general is very poor. People write books because they see it as a
mountain they want to climb, an additional accomplishment they wish to
have under their belt, something that gets them to avoid doing household
chores from their spouse--not for the negative financial benefits that
such books normally engender. Absent any desire to climb that mountain,
it's best not to bother. You can instead take a bunch of money out of
your savings account and burn it, as such an action would provide the
same financial effect of writing a book while taking far less time.
Glen
On 12/13/2010 09:35 AM, Craig Tataryn wrote:
I would suggest an eBook only CXF In Action book as the amount of trees it
would take to properly cover CXF might increase CO2 levels drastically at a
global level :)
An authoritative reference manual would be great, I doubt though that any of
the CXF committers could find the time to put the necessary energy and time
into one, writing books is all consume from what I've heard.
Craig.
On 2010-12-13, at 8:25 AM, robert wrote:
Here is what is currently being done with "ActiveMQ in Action"...
http://www.manning.com/snyder/.
I think the same (MEAP effort) could be down for a "CXF in Action".
-- Robert
On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 09:46:41 -0300, Juan Pablo Pizarro
<[email protected]> wrote:
Me too!
2010/12/13 Yiannis Mavroukakis<[email protected]>
Definitely. I'd buy.
On 12 December 2010 03:28, robert<[email protected]> wrote:
I think you guys should write a "CXF in Action" book... any plans for it?
-- Robert
