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Summary: Outstanding!
Review: All Java web tier developers owe it to themselves, their projects, and their career to get this book and devour it. Jayson and Kevin go deep into each of the various topics and provide tried and true practical and detailed best practices.
Rating:
Summary: Outstanding!
Review: All Java web tier developers owe it to themselves, their projects, and their career to get this book and devour it. Jayson and Kevin go deep into each of the various topics and provide tried and true practical and detailed best practices.
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Summary: Very low level
Review: Don't waste your time reading this book.
About 10% of this book is information worth knowing. The rest is "packaging material" ( How the books is organized?, What are we going to do next? and countless repetitions ).
Rating:
Summary: Very low level
Review: Don't waste your time reading this book.
About 10% of this book is information worth knowing. The rest is "packaging material" ( How the books is organized?, What are we going to do next? and countless repetitions ).
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Summary: Good Book for a Beginner
Review: I bought this book and I thought it was a good resource to start developing JSP based Servlet based web applications.
I would recommend this book as a starter for anyone making the initial transition to Java Web Development. There are many books on the shelf, not as many as in years before, and in truth most of them are not worth the paper they are written on. But these books are normally published by the same company. Addison Wesley usually publishes good quality material.
Good book for the right audience.
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Summary: Mediocre
Review: I came across this book after reading articles written by the authors on sites devoted to Java development.The short articles written by the authors were insightful and thorough. My expectations for the book were high but the end results were far below the standards I was expecting. It appears that the authors (or editors) were lost as to the focus of the book. The writing style is tedious to follow. The order of the book is haphazard. The book starts off at getting a Hello World application up and running - for Servlets. The following chapter is a similar introduction to JSP. The authors seem preoccupied with Internalization - this appears all over the book. Subsequent chapters cover exception handling, security, JSP tags etc. You may find nuggets of useful references in this book - sparsely located but they do exist. Hence the two stars - but it still does not justify the sticker price.
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Summary: English as a 5th language
Review: I have to admit that I haven't finished this book, but I may never accomplish that and retain any hair on my head. Each page requires me to pull a little more hair out of my head in frustration. If you want to get a sampling of the prose "just consider that as I read each and every page I attain a level of frustration at the wasted and unclear words that dominate the very page I am reading and make me almost feel that the authors may in fact just be using needless words to bulk up the book rather than to make the book readable or useful and because of that I want to pull my hair out." Yes that's the way the book is written. About this time the authors will tell you that they've covered all the information that they wanted to in this paragraph and are now moving on to the next one. I have to agree with the reviewer who suggested saving your time and money on another book. This is by far the worst book I've ever read on jsp and servlets and it makes me very angry that I didn't spend my money elsewhere. I particularly take to task the editors of Addison-Wesley who have put out some of the best computer programming books I've read. Did they send all their copy editors on vacation as this book came out? There's not the slightest hint of copy editing. Beyond my complaints about the prose the content isn't much either. Compared to the O'Reilly jsp and servlet books or the Marty Hall books, or the SCWCD certifications books from Manning and Wrox this books is truly horrible and not very useful. All of them cover these technologies better and with prose that actually is enjoyable reading. All in all I have to say that Addison-Wesley ought to be embarrassed by this one.
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Summary: Good book
Review: I rate it 5 stars just because Ken Januski underrated it. Do not believe Januski. I can suppose he simply dous not know what he is talking about. This is far not the "worst book", this book is good and it actual rating must be 4 stars. The only one lack is that it is not suitable as your first book on the topic. Servlets are explained on only 70 pages, there are not many examples there, so you need some knowledge to read this book. But anyway, its worth buying.
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Summary: Good book
Review: I rate it 5 stars just because Ken Januski underrated it. Do not believe Januski. I can suppose he simply dous not know what he is talking about. This is far not the "worst book", this book is good and it actual rating must be 4 stars. The only one lack is that it is not suitable as your first book on the topic. Servlets are explained on only 70 pages, there are not many examples there, so you need some knowledge to read this book. But anyway, its worth buying.
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Summary: Best book you can get on Java web development
Review: If you are a Java developer (which I am) and want to develop Web Applications and learn Servlets and JSP, you can't go wrong with this book. In fact, in my opinion, this is one of the best Java books on any subject that you can buy. Much has been written on the subjects of servlets and JSP, but it is rare that the key concepts for truly understanding these subjects are put in sufficient context to grasp the big picture of developing full featured web applications. What separates this book from the rest is the well structured way each concept is clearly presented and put into the larger context to explain the relevance of the concept to the larger picture of developing web applications. In particular, for each concept, the reader is led through a typical developer path of first getting the technology to operate, and then shown how initial quick and dirty development patterns are improved by more sophisticated design patterns. Patterns for error handling, filters, security, internationalization, and especially the user presentation model view controller (MVC) pattern are clearly explained, and their use in web application development is demonstrated. The issues of where to place functionality: in servlets, filters, tags, JSPs, scriplets, EJB(!), etc. are brought out in such a way that the reader can learn the relevance of each technology that has emerged in the Java web application development universe, which has been characterizedby fast evolving releases of approaches to dealing with the integration of Java and HTML/XML components. It is demonstrated that these technologies have finally converged to a set of tools that can enable the Java developer to have full command of web application development. In summary, I highly recommend this book and believe it is a milestone, in that it shows that Java has now evolved into a truly powerful web application development platform.
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