Reviews for Java Drawing with Apache Batik: A Tutorial

1. Decent Intro

   Rated 4 out of 5 stars, December 12th, 2007

   This book serves as a decent introduction to SVG Graphics in Java using Batik. It starts off with a light introduction to the SVG format and the Batik implementation, and slowly eases you in to creating your own graphics in Java, starting with basic "Draw a circle" up to "Draw a circle and make it interactive, with shadows and animation". It also details generating SVG Graphics on the serverside - on the fly using JSP's - allowing the generation of real-time graphs and stuff.
   
   Why 4 and not 5 stars? While this book is a really good intro to Batik, it has little value as a reference, and is more of a step by step guide - I wanted to know how to remove an Element by ElementID, but found no decent resolution in the book
   
   All said, it's a good guide, clearly written, easy to understand.
   
   Mike