No, I do not want to write the book, I am several years behind the curve with CXF.
As such, I have no business even being a co-author or even a formal reviewer. But I would be an informal reviewer without receiving any credit. There is no doubt in my mind that this book should exist, for many reasons. Yes, there is very little (I stress little) money in writing books, and it requires a great deal of time. The benefit goes to the consumers of the book, not to the authors outside of knowing that they are bringing extended value to the CXF community and the CXF product. If someone manages the project and the chapters are broken up between three or four people, you could get the book through first writes in a handful of months, not years. I'm just trying to be helpful here with the suggestion of "CXF in Action". If anyone moves forward with this, I'll be active as an informal reviewing in the MEAP program. -- Robert On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 10:19:59 -0500, Glen Mazza <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >>>>>> >>>>>> >>
