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Summary: All for developing a Web Application
Review: Correct cover of Servlets and JSPs issues and the relationships between them. How to work with each one, and how to combine them in different architectures. Also a good and useful explanation of the MVC paradigm and good examples of web applications develpment.
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Summary: The book may be not for you
Review: Do not buy this book unless you have:- A very good knowledge of the Java language - Some experiemce doing HTML pages - A good idea about how a web server applications work Because the book will not bother to explain any of these points. It contains some good tips and highlights about JSP and servlet programming, but the subjects are so loosely organized that it cannot even be considered a tutorial on them. Part of the blame is to be attributed to the subject itself: it is a rapidly evolving one and there is not yet a standard way to address many of the issues covered in the book. But anyway ... For example: by the middle of the book the author realizes that, after going through dozens of servlet code examples, he still hadn't told you how to invoke them! Then he presents a by all means insufficient half-page outline. For example: There are some appendices about web servers, where in the web they are and how to make them work. If you know your way through web servers, these appendices are useless, if you don't, they are insufficient. I am not saying that the book is bad, but after going through the previous reviews you may think that this book will transform you from an application developer into a web developer. Not so. It is aimed to a very specific kind of public that know their way into web programming and are looking for some conceptual highlights. By no means a tutorial or a structured reference.
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Summary: Good for syntax, bad for "Using Java"
Review: I normally don't write book reviews but I saw this book had some poor reviews and felt it necessary to add my two-cents worth. This is probably the best servlet book I've ever read and I've read several. The book explains obscure points that aren't entirely clear in the specification itself and cautions against problems that aren't obvious unless you're a very experienced programmer. It also provides lots of invaluable suggestions for those of us trying to figure out exactly how the J2EE architecture should be implemented. If you're just learning servlets, Java, or web programming you probably want to start with a simpler book.
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Summary: Fabulous Book
Review: I've never been so happy to find a book as I've been to find this one! If you're like me, this is the perfect book for you, and from what I can tell, it's one of a kind. I'd seen books on Java (servlets), books on JSP, books on XML, and understand the concepts of presentation/application/data layers for web applications. Unfortunately, all the books seemed to treat these techonologies as if they were stand-alone solutions. The clear focus of this book is how to get these technologies to work together to provide an elegant, modular, and easily maintainable solution to application problems. Even in the first chapters (basic JSP application), the book is already laying out it's primary theme. It specifically draws your attention to the way the JSP's use Java in two basic areas. The first half being the creation and manipulation of objects, and the second half being the presentation of the data. It then explains that in a few chapters you'll learn that the top half should be in a servlet and the JSP should focus on the second half. IRT some of the other reviews I've read... Yes, you need to know some Java. This book isn't going to explain classes, polymorphism, inheritance, or interfaces to you -- it expects that you know what they mean. But simply working through a few Sun trails or a Java-in-24-hours type book will be enough. Also, if the phrase "multi-tier application architecture" sounds like a foreign language phrase, then this book isn't really focused toward the obstacles that you're currently dealing with. A good chunk (about 1/2, I'd say) of the book is meant to clear up how to use these technologies in a multi-tier environment. If you don't know what one is, then a lot of the book is going to seem irrelevant. But if you do know what "multi-tier" means, and you have understanding of the technologies, this is the book that fills in the gaps involved with integrating them together in a single solution.
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Summary: Fabulous Book
Review: I've never been so happy to find a book as I've been to find this one! If you're like me, this is the perfect book for you, and from what I can tell, it's one of a kind. I'd seen books on Java (servlets), books on JSP, books on XML, and understand the concepts of presentation/application/data layers for web applications. Unfortunately, all the books seemed to treat these techonologies as if they were stand-alone solutions. The clear focus of this book is how to get these technologies to work together to provide an elegant, modular, and easily maintainable solution to application problems. Even in the first chapters (basic JSP application), the book is already laying out it's primary theme. It specifically draws your attention to the way the JSP's use Java in two basic areas. The first half being the creation and manipulation of objects, and the second half being the presentation of the data. It then explains that in a few chapters you'll learn that the top half should be in a servlet and the JSP should focus on the second half. IRT some of the other reviews I've read... Yes, you need to know some Java. This book isn't going to explain classes, polymorphism, inheritance, or interfaces to you -- it expects that you know what they mean. But simply working through a few Sun trails or a Java-in-24-hours type book will be enough. Also, if the phrase "multi-tier application architecture" sounds like a foreign language phrase, then this book isn't really focused toward the obstacles that you're currently dealing with. A good chunk (about 1/2, I'd say) of the book is meant to clear up how to use these technologies in a multi-tier environment. If you don't know what one is, then a lot of the book is going to seem irrelevant. But if you do know what "multi-tier" means, and you have understanding of the technologies, this is the book that fills in the gaps involved with integrating them together in a single solution.
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Summary: One to have
Review: MVC design pattern in J2EE is explained well.
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Summary: Good for syntax, bad for "Using Java"
Review: This book has an excellent first few chapters. It really introduces the Java language, explains how it works, and makes it fairly easy to keep up. Once you start getting into the technologies that surround Java, such as database connections and CORBA, this book gets tough to follow. There is code example after code example with little or no explanation of what the code is doing step by step. I know that I like when the author walks me through code so I can understand the first time, and not have to look at more examples. This book does not do that. Overall I think there is material to be learned from this book, though I'm not sure if it's easily extracted. I haven't read the WROX JSP book, but from what I have seen, that might be a better way to go.
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Summary: Simple the Best
Review: This book is great, simple the best.... nothing else matter.. Enjoy.
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Summary: poorly written book
Review: this book was written in a hurry to make some quick bucks. it jumps from topic to topic without any focus. examples contain too many errors. most of them will not work without debug and rewrite. some of the code are not printed in the book but used by other codes in the book. it is very confusing. it seems that the author just dumped some codes he wote when he was learning jsp and servlet. you won't get much out of this one.
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Summary: Good Examples of Practical Solutions
Review: This is an excellent book for someone who wants to learn more about JSP and Servlets. There are great chapters on handling form data, working with cookies, using the Session, Request, and Response objects, Model-View-Controller (MVC), writing data to a database, and creating a shopping cart using JSP and Servlets. This book will not teach you JSP and Servlets, but it will give you good examples of practical solutions to common everyday web programming issues using these technologies. There are even chapters on 3-tiered programming using JSP with RMI, CORBA, and EJB. And there is an added bonus of getting to build a wireless web application...very cool.
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