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Summary: too little sample code
Review: too much word, too little sample code. I think the explaination is good. But in terms of sample code, it is too little and not well explained.Good for understand the ideas, not good for programming.
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Summary: Decent book
Review: Overall the book is good and well written, but having worked with JSP since last july, I found the book didn't go in depth enough. It's great for beginners, but if you already have 6 months of JSP experience, this book will probably just confirm/support what you're doing. For hardcore JSP/EJB development, no book covers it in great enough detail to really show the strengths and weaknesses of JSP and EJB.
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Summary: Great but could have been sooner
Review: It is a great book, verbose at time though; I have the urge to forget about reading it page by page and just look up my wants in the table of contents but there is always this nagging feeling I would miss out something important if I do so. Great for a wide range of readers I guess. Too long winded for experienced people who just want straight answers rather than ask why. However, the delivery time is a torture. Took about 2 weeks to get here. Normal mail from the US takes only 1 week, I wonder whether my book has gone on a worldwide tour before coming to me :)
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Summary: Web Development With Javaserver Pages
Review: Dynamic content-personalized, customized, and up-to-the-minute-is a key component of site development on the World Wide Web today. Java Server Pages (JSP) is a new server-side technology for generating dynamic content in Web pages and other on-line applications. This guide to JSP covers all aspects of development and includes comparisons to similar dynamic content systems such as CGI, Active Server Pages, Cold Fusion, and PHP. Included is a discussion of the use of component centric design via Java Beans and custom tag libraries for separating the presentation of dynamic data (the layout, look, and feel) from its implementation (the code that generates it).
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Summary: Excellent Book
Review: This is excellent book to start with. Covers all aspects of Java Server Pages programming. Simple to read and undestand. Examples have clear and full explanation .One of the best books.
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Summary: An Excellent Book on JSP
Review: Just finished reading this excellent book. I believe this is one of the best well-written books ever since Java came into existence. The things I liked about this book are: - The authors spent a lot of time explaining the fundamentals of JSP in detail, thereby providing a very good foundation. - The chapters "Architecting JSP application" and "An example JSP project" have been very useful for me. In fact, I am using the concepts and examples presented in these chapters for a project that I am working on. - The tips, notes, and warnings throughout the book are very useful in applying JSP technology in the real world. - The support sites, author-online at the Manning web site are available for us to ask questions to the authors and also for discussion on JSP. I have personally found these sites to be extremely useful. I hope to see the following things in the next version of the book: - An exclusive chapter on the fundamentals of servlets and how it ties with JSP. - An exclusive chapter on how JSP and EJB can work together - A real world "non-trivial" example will certainly help. - I would also like the authors to address some of the concerns that Jason Hunter (Author of JAVA servlet programming, by O'Reilly) listed on his site,
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Summary: The Best JavaServer Pages Book!
Review: If you are Java Servlet-based programmers and developers, you will benefit a lot from the JavaServer Pages. And this book really talks about the JSP: what JSP technology can offer and cannot offer. How best you can integrate JSP technology with Servlet technology and JavaBeans for better Java server-side applications. Beside the deep and throughout coverage of JavaServer Pages are covered, I specially appreciate the designing and architecting issues that the authors focuss on: The JSPs is best suited for Web presentation and Servlets and JavaBeans are for logic implementation. Other JSP books mainly illustrated the good sides of the technology by mainly implementing JSP codes into HTML codes, and that created messy and hard maintainable programs. That's not good OOD and OOP practices! With this book, you will have a clear idea and technique of how to separate the Web content presentation and program implementation. The results are manageable and maintainable software and good OOD and OOP practices. Thanks the authors for writing such a best book.
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Summary: Makes you ready for JSP development real quick.
Review: On the whole the book is quite good. Though it assumes you knowbasics of java and servlet, which is acceptable. I recommend thisbook as this is the best available book I guess. If you have some experience in server-side programming, then this book makes you ready for JSP real quick. END
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Summary: A jumpstart for your development
Review: I would like to extend my great thanks for an excellent book. Not only did I read it from cover to cover. Not only did I enjoy the contents as well as style (especially in the WAR chapter). But, I also put it to real use. A group of developers has challenged me saying they are faster. I used this book for a great jumpstart. The understanding that the book gives is superb. You can also download the code, and I used it as a template for my project, which then took only two days! In addition, the book is full of great practical advice, such as checking for form reload using tokens. Finally, the authors answer your questions on a forum. Very recommended.
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Summary: A Good Book For JSP.
Review: A real good book. As mentioned by others, this book is a bit verbose ( i guess the authors wanted to target both java developers and web designers ). In general a very good book. One thing i really like is the appendix section where the authors describe steps to install and run tomcat, things like these really help you in getting upto speed. Section about how to design web apps using Java Beans is also good.
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