I think i mentioned before that i started reading EMF: Eclipse Modeling Framework, Second Edition, i have to say first that the book is not released yet (expected end of august or begin September). But Safari Books gives the reader the opportunity to already order it online, and if you are willing to pay a little bit more (well, in my honest opinion, quite a lot more) you can have access to a digital version which is not finished yet. For this you pay around $34.99 extra (which is about 24 Euro's), imagine that the price of the book in hardcopy is the same (so you pay the same for a digital not finished copy) but probably that is the price you pay for having an early release. So i read the comments so far on the website and there were some complaints about images not being displayed properly in the PDF, but those comments were quite old and the author replied that he had contact with the publisher that they would solve this problem soon. So i bought the hard copy and the PDF version of the book, because i really would like to do something with EMF. So when i downloaded the PDF i was amazed (well actually not) that indeed the images are still not displayed, so for the first few chapters this is not actually a problem, but when you come to chapter 4 which will guide you to do actually something yourself you directly get stuck because you miss the diagrams. So basically the early edition of the book is in my case completely useless. I have to say that i am very disappointing about this, they know about the problem for more then a month now and they don't take any action. But for the rest, the first few chapters are nice, it is easy to read and it explains very clear how things are related to each other, now lets just hope that the image problem is solved soon. |
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A little bit disappointing: EMF: Eclipse Modeling Framework, Second Editionposted Aug 17, 2008 11:47 PM by Ronald Mathies [ updated Aug 18, 2008 12:04 AM ] |