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Document Engineering: Analyzing and Designing Documents for Business Informatics and Web Services Review by Christian
I didn't get the info for which I was looking out of it
I was lured by the title and reviews hoping to get insight on how to generically define large documents that could easily be extended as requirements change and consumed by a wide variety of clients using different arbitrary programming languages. I didn't learn anything new about extensibility, and programming languages are absent from this book.
Instead the book seems to be a somewhat dated look at a high level process for using documents in a service oriented architecture. The calendar example application seems too simple to translate into a more complex real life application. The approach described for "document engineering" is much more reminiscent of waterfall style development approaches rather than lean/agile techniques.
I also found the text very difficult to read; it's very dry.
Perhaps this book is useful for some, but it certainly isn't helpful for everybody.