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Title: JSTL : Practical Guide for JSP Programmers (The Practical Guide Series) ISBN: 0-12-656755-7 Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Pub. Date: 22 August, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.8 (5 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Not very helpful. Not recommended at all.
Comment: This book just wasn't very helpful. Not much depth, sparse, sporadic. Everytime I ran into a JSTL issue/question on my project I ran to this book hoping that maybe this time it would provide answers. It never did. Very disappointing and frustrating. Look somewhere else.
Rating: 2
Summary: Shallow
Comment: This book is potentially promising.
Short, concise, inexpensive. Can it be possible?
Not really.
The author skirts the major issues of getting started, forwarding readers to the 'easy installation instructions' on the Jakarta site, on all matters trivial and not so trivial.
The content itself is mediocre at best, written offhand and leaves you reading and re-reading every section to check whether you missed something when there really was very little there to begin with.
This book smells of a rush-to-publish and under-editting and under-testing. Steer clear.
Rating: 5
Summary: The best JSTL book on the market
Comment: JSTL provides a set of common tag libraries for JSP programmers. This book explains the JSTL and it does it extremely well. In about 200 pages, the book covers what the JSTL is, what to use it for, how to use it, and gives plenty of examples.
The start of the book covers the basics of tag libraries and explains why we need JSTL. Next, the basics of JSTL and the expression language are covered. The one small flaw in the book is that the expression language could have been covered in a bit more detail. The rest of the book covers each of the tags (actions) broken up into the separate libraries. The core, XML, internationalization and formatting, and SQL actions are each given their own chapters. The author doesn't just cover the tags but also provides enough background information to insure that you can understand how the tags are used. For example, in the XML chapter, the author starts by explaining the different technologies around XML and then shows how the XML actions can be used to simplify the task of using XML in your JSPs. The SQL chapter explains why you would never want to use the SQL actions before she discusses the actions themselves. The book ends with a "quick reference" section.
Sue Spielman has a very easy writing style that makes reading her books a pleasure. Her book is short and complete, a very difficult combination to pull off.
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Title: The Struts Framework: Practical Guide for Java Programmers by Sue Spielman ISBN: 1558608621 Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Core JSTL: Mastering the JSP Standard Tag Library by David Geary, David M. Geary ISBN: 0131001531 Publisher: Pearson Education Pub. Date: 26 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Struts in Action: Building Web Applications with the Leading Java Framework by Ted Husted, Cedric Dumoulin, George Franciscus, David Winterfeldt, Craig R. McClanahan ISBN: 1930110502 Publisher: Manning Publications Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $44.95 |
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Title: Java Development With Ant by Erik Hatcher, Steve Loughran ISBN: 1930110588 Publisher: Manning Publications Pub. Date: August, 2002 List Price(USD): $44.95 |
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Title: Programming Jakarta Struts by Chuck Cavaness ISBN: 0596003285 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 01 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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