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Title: Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages, Vol. 1: Core Technologies, Second Edition by Marty Hall, Larry Brown ISBN: 0-13-009229-0 Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Pub. Date: 29 August, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.56 (226 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: This book is the reason I didn't sink
Comment: I started a new job 9 months ago, the assignment was to write several large scale web applications in JSP. I am an older female with a new computer science degree in a world of 20 something peers. They refused to give me ANY tips about JSP configuration or Tomcat...heck, they even put a few obsticles in my way in hopes of watching me fail. I HAD java experience, I Had perl experience I HAD HTML web develoment experience and I had a strong desire to suceed. I hit amazon and purchased a few books one of which was this one.
9 months later my applications are center stage and receiving RAVE review and this book played a huge part in that success. No, it doesn't take you by the hand if you're not already fluent in programming of some sort, but if you already know how to build websites and program in java, this book is a great tool. It doesn't force you to use some preconceived bean idea to build a cookie cutter application, it just gives pertinent examples and comprehensive explination of the most important and frequently used parts of JSP programming.
The index could be better, but over all it's a great book for new JSP programmers!!
Rating: 4
Summary: Good, but sometimes spotty indexing
Comment: This is a solid book, and an effective tutorial, but it is sometimes frustrating as a reference. It will tell you pretty much everything you need to know about writing real applications with Servlets and/or JSP, including good coverage of how to integrate multiple JSPs and servlets together to build a real application. This is important, because who really creates websites where the pages don't have to integrate together?
This book includes a reasonable discussion of the various JSP/servlet engines out there, and how to set up Apache Tomcat, the reference implementation (the commercial implementations are easier to set up). It also has good coverage of all the standard topics, like HTML form data, dealing with HTTP headers and status codes, using cookies, and session management. It also includes a reasonable chapter on JDBC and another on JavaBeans, and if you understand SQL and your needs aren't very elaborate, you may not need to buy another book on either topic. It also includes code for some handy utilities like a simple database connection pool (important since you almost certainly want your web application to be multithreaded) and a visual HTTP client that lets you specify the HTTP headers to send and view all the headers that are returned. Overall, this book is clear and thorough and I highly recommend it.
However, I still found this frustrating at times, due to the indexing. For example, in its discussion of sharing Java beans between multiple JSPs, it discusses the ability to share beans at different scopes--session, page, request, and application. The problem is, it doesn't define what is and isn't included in application-level scope, or how you define some pages to be part of an application but not others. If you plan to have multiple applications on your web server, this is important. Like several other topics I looked for, there was no way to find this using the index, though it may be in the book somewhere. I finally solved this by going to the Apache Tomcat documentation.
Still, occasional frustrations aside, I have yet to find another book this good on the subject, and it did teach me how to build applications out of JSPs effectively. So even though it's not perfect, I recommend it to anyone who needs to understand the topic.
Rating: 3
Summary: 1st Edition available for free
Comment: the first edition of this book is available as a free download from http://pdf.coreservlets.com/. I have not read this book but heard it is good. I gave it 3 stars since it is an older version
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Title: More Servlets and JavaServer Pages by Marty Hall ISBN: 0130676144 Publisher: Pearson Higher Education Pub. Date: 26 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Core Java 2, Volume II: Advanced Features (5th Edition) by Cay Horstmann, Gary Cornell ISBN: 0130927384 Publisher: Pearson Higher Education Pub. Date: 10 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Core J2EE Patterns: Best Practices and Design Strategies, Second Edition by Deepak Alur, Dan Malks, John Crupi ISBN: 0131422464 Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Pub. Date: 10 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Enterprise JavaBeans (3rd Edition) by Richard Monson-Haefel ISBN: 0596002262 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 15 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $44.95 |
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Title: Core Web Programming (2nd Edition) by Marty Hall, Larry Brown ISBN: 0130897930 Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Pub. Date: 24 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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