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Summary: Excellent coverage!
Review: This book is excellent for anyone who needs to get started writing JSPs. The coverage is comprehensive, concise, and clear. Each topic is thoroughly explained. Both experienced and newcomers can benefit from this book.
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Summary: I don't see what all the fuss is about?
Review: I was very disappointed in this book after reading all of the stellar reviews it received.First of all if you want to hit the ground running using JSP this is not the book for you. The explanations are too "wordy". Please, just the facts, what's explained in two paragraphs in this book could be easily condensed into 2 lines. There are not enough examples and the ones that do exist are not "real world". Also, and most important, this book was boring! If you are a professional developer like myself, and you want to start coding without reading through pages and pages of lengthly explanations and geek theory, skip this and go with "Pure JSP Java Server Pages" by James Goodwill ISB#: 0-672-31902-0 or "JavaServer Pages Application Development" by Ben Forta ISB#: 0-672-319239-x. Plenty of examples and to the point explanations make these two very good books.
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Summary: Good book, sloppy code
Review: Overall I think this book is good. Reads smoothly, and gives the reader a good foundation of JSP. But for the life of me why can't some of these authors get their coding right. I'm having a tough time getting some of it work.
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Summary: Best of breed
Review: JSP's are so relatively new that there aren't very many books yet available. I think I've seen them all. This book is the best I've read. I'm very impressed with the Manning line of books (the Java Servlets by Example is also superb). There's the right balance between well-written text and code examples. Some books are just code dumps. The examples in this book are all non-trivial and can be ported and modified and put to immediate use. The solutions are, in many cases, elegant and clever. I really like the example of using form variables and rewriting a self-targeted URL in order to maintain a kind of "state".
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Summary: Good guide to JavaServer Pages
Review: Web Development with JavaServer Pages teaches the reader to construct rich interactive websites using JavaServer Pages technology. You may be wondering why JavaServer Pages is so useful, and how it can competes with other technologies like ActiveServerPages or CGI script. JavaServer pages allows you to abstract the web design aspect done by web designers from the programming down by programmers. This means that web developers can concentrate on beautiful pages, and developers can concentrate on cutting good code. This makes it an important component of web development, and a cornerstone of Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) Platform. This book offers a very comprehensive guide to the world of JavaServer programming, covering both theory and practical JavaServer programming in great detail. While the book is filled with many small practical examples, it also has a larger project which shows you how to create an FAQ management system. However, it was slightly disappointing not to see other large scale projects which would benefit the reader by seeing JSP in action. Web Development with JavaServer Pages covers all the fundamentals of JSP programming while providing easy to understand and concise examples. While the lack of several large-scale projects may detract from the usefulness of the book for some developers, it is nonetheless a fine guide to JSP that competes well with other similarly titled books. - Michael Reilly, for the Java Coffee Break.
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Summary: Better book on custom tags
Review: This book is the best. Beside concise yet thorough coverages on JSP essentials, the chapters on custom tags is truely exceptional. If you ever need to creat custom tags or just want to understand how custom tags works, this is the book to have. I am implementing the Struts Framework from Apache's Jakarta Project (http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/index.html), which uses custom JSP tags besides other cool stuff like MVC design patterns, and this book proved to be invaluable. Wish I had found this one before I bought the JSP book from Wrox :-(
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Summary: best book for JSP
Review: its the best book for web development in java. this book shows the intricate usage of JSP and servlets (which is overlooked by other books). Architechting JSP applicaations " is the best chapter.
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Summary: Is for you
Review: If you wanna really undestand JSP and build good sites it is the book for you , too for new Java Programmers...
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Summary: One of its Kind
Review: This is the best book on JSP right now,however there are a few other books avialable in the market, but this the one which really takes you step by step to the path of JSP.If you want to learn both Servlets and JSP and you have "Core Servlets and Java server pages" by Marty Hall.This book is the best companion.
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Summary: Great book for EVERYBODY !!
Review: The book is full of easy to understand examples. If you are new to Java Server Pages this is the book to start with. It covers the basics on JSP construction, bean creation and connection and how work with data bases. There is a section on how to architect JSP applications to make their construction easier. There is also in-depth coverage on how to build your own custom tag libraries. Until now you needed to wade into the Sun Java docs, this book makes custom tags painless. If you are serious about JSP / XML combinations, this is THE book to get started with !!
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