Professional JSP Tag Libraries

Rating:
Summary: Excellent Content
Review: Professional JSP Tag Libraries has great, effective content that Web programmers will appreciate.

It would have received 5 stars, except for the fact that there are technical errors. Each one isn't major, but it does affect the text's consistency and fluidity. For example, the diagram on page 41 that reveals the Web Archive File Structure misspells a directory name where the tag library descriptors are placed.

Rating:
Summary: A good reference book for JSP tags and struts
Review: Title: Professional JSP Tag Libraries
Author: Simon Brown
Publisher: WROX publisher Ltd.
ISBN: 1 861006 217

Reviewer Name: Ravi Mahalingam
Review Date 23 Apr 2003.

Overall Value of the book: 4
Instructional value of the book: 4
Reference value of the book: 5

Like every WROX, this book covers different aspects of tag libraries
of JSP (custom and regular) in a detailed fashion. The author Mr. Brown
has done a good job to explain the concepts of tag libraries.

the book has useful code snippets that can be used for real
world problems. the book also provides screen prints of the
actual output making it easier for the readers to find out the
result of the code.

THE author has explained how STRUTS work and has explained
it in great detail.

overall, this book is a good reference and will find a place in
my office shelf. we are in the process of developing a jsp
based user application which uses STRUTS.