Someone once told me that you’ll know your product is a success when someone writes a “For Dummies” book about it. Apache CXF took a step in that direction yesterday with the release of Apache CXF Web Service Development. As far as I know, this is the first published book about CXF.
What’s particularly exciting about this is that it’s not written by any committer on the CXF project. The authors and reviewers are completely independent. They decided that CXF needed a book and set out to write one. That’s quite interesting because on most of the OpenSource projects I’ve seen, the first sets of books are usually written by people actively involved in the project. The fact that this was written by actual users, not the developers working on the project, gives my some hope that it’s targeted correctly. One of the problems I’ve seen repeatedly with books written by the same developers that are writing the project code is the book gets too technical and makes assumptions about the readers that aren’t correct. The “I know this, so eveyone else must know it too” fallacy.
Anyway, I haven’t read it yet (I just bought it and am only up to page 17 or 336) so I cannot vouch for how good/bad it is yet. However, I’m very excited as this does fill a gap in the CXF offerings. I just wanted everyone to know it’s there. 🙂
Thanks for the book link. I bought this book and seems good so far. Having a book certainly helps
Hi Dan,
I’ve also updated my Axis2 book to cover CXF (see http://agileskills2.org/DWSAA). If you’d like to take a look at it, drop me a line and I’ll send you a copy.
I was a little disspointed that the book didn’t handle advance topics such as WS-Security sepcifically Username Token handling in much detail, though the book talks about setting a custom username header in the interceptor