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Summary: Excellent tittle that DOESN'T live to the expectations!
Review: After reading the reviews on this book I thought WOW! this has to be a great book and since I am an avid reader of computer books and I am currently working with server-side technologies I thought it would be a great investment. I wish I could say that now.- The book lacks organization in terms of laying out information for readers that already know JAVA but want to learn JSP quickly. - The code in the chapters has at least 80% of code errors (including syntax errors, missing code, and misplaced code). And upon complaining to the authors about this fact their answer was: "Download the code from our web-site and compile our code". What's the point of printing a book with lots and lots of code if that code is bogus! - The code is not line numbered making it difficult to follow the discussion while reading. - There is absolutely no information on how to install and configure at least one server to run the examples. So, if you aren't already running your own server forget it! Finally I think this book could have been fun to read (as other books from WROX) if it weren't for the excessive problems I encountered while exploring the book making it difficult to enjoy the experience.
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Summary: The author Sameer Tyagi
Review: Ever made that new dish and then wondered what you missed that made it so flavorless,and then thought why you even bothered in the first place ?
A lot of developers I met in the last few months felt that way about JSPs.
JSPs are a powerful abstraction that provide developers with an elegant solution. This book is the first comprehensive coverage of Java Server Pages and is targeted at developers from an intermediate to advanced level. Me and the rest of the team at Wrox,have made all efforts to provide an indepth view with practical examples and discussions. If JSPs is something you will be working on, I know that you will benefit from this. Cheers
Sameer Tyagi
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Summary: Good guide to JSP, overlaps with other Wrox titles though
Review: For developers involved with web-based projects, whether it be an online store for electronic commerce or an Intranet site for accessing and modifying company data, the powerful blend of JavaServer Pages (JSP) and Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) technologies can really make life simple. Once you've mastered them, creating new components that encapsulate business logic, or new web interfaces to existing systems, is easy. The trick, for developers, is mastering the technologies. Professional JSP is one way to get up to speed. Like many of the books published by Wrox Press, Professional JSP covers a specific technology in-depth, as well as the various ancillary topics relating to it such as databases, servlets, and XML. While not every developer will need every web technology covered by the book (and there are many), the book works both as a tutorial to cover the basics and a reference for technologies that you may encounter later. Professional JSP starts by covering the basics of Java Server Pages, and how they relate to other web technologies. Embedded in HTML pages, JSP provides an easy mechanism for creating interactive web interfaces that draws on server-side components, known as Enterprise JavaBeans. While the presentation logic is written in JSP, the processing occurs within these JavaBean components. The book takes a balanced approach, covering both JSP and its syntax, as well as how to write and interact with JavaBeans to perform useful tasks, like accessing databases through JDBC and using other Java technologies. However, if you've read other Wrox titles, you may find there is some overlap in the topics covered. One of the nice things about Professional JSP is that, in addition to covering theory, it goes further and examines practical applications of JSP, and issues for programmers like security and debugging. Like other titles in the Professional series, there are case studies of real projects using JSP and related technologies. My favorite would have to be the case study on porting Active Server Pages to JSP -- something that is extremely important for developers with "legacy" web systems. On the whole, Professional JSP is an excellent book for web developers wanting to get up to speed with Java Server Pages, web development, and Enterprise JavaBeans. However, developers with less of a web presentation focus and more of back-end server view may also want to consider the excellent Professional Java Server Programming title, which also covers JSP. -- David Reilly, reviewed for the Java Coffee Break
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Summary: Excellent
Review: I am new to JSP and i searched for the material which can explain me JSP .fortunate i bought this book and it really helped me with sample application.I recommend for any new JSP professional.But this book assume that you know java and servlets.
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Summary: Highly technical, quite disjointed.
Review: I bought this book after some consideration, but wish i had went for one of the other current JSP books on the market. The problem i find with wrox books is that by having numerous writers, they don't read each other chapters, and consequently repeat each other over and over. I found this book to be far too big as well. For example, for each JSP example, they print the corresponding servlet code. This takes up a lot of space, particularly in the early chapters and is pretty useless in my opinion. Also there is a glaring typo on the first page of the book which dosnt instill confidence. I think this may be a good book for people already using JSP pages, and looking for extra technical knowledge. However for people like myself, interested in learning how JSPs work and where they fit into server side java solutions, its not the best buy! Its not a bedtime read, one for the office bookshelf.
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Summary: Too wordy - hard to understand
Review: I didn't like this book. The examples are hard to follow. Also, it assumes you want to use other technologies like Servlets in conjunction of your JSP pages, which I'm not. API is not organized very well and hard to find things fast. I hope my O'Reilly (on order) is better...
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Summary: full of details, but presented in many different ways..
Review: I think the authors of this book are really "Professional" in working on their projects, but not really "Professional" on how to work together to make a good book that is easy to read and understand. I'd recommend "Web developement with Java Server Pages" (from the IBM "Einstein" & the MIT "Rocketman") Save your penny my friends.
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Summary: Good for reader who has java experience
Review: I think this book is good reference for reader who has experience or has basic java knowledge and used to write server side programming eg. ASP / web applicaton .... For beginner it is hard to learn becouse this book is write for professional but may be undestand if you work hard
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Summary: Your first JSP project?
Review: If you are about to embark on your first JSP/EJB project then I really recommend this book. I am an experienced Java Applet programmer but was limited in html, JSP and EJB skills. The book took me through everything I needed to know and got me up to speed very rapidly. The book teaches JSP but it also explains the many different design approaches and gives examples of their use in real scenarios. This gives the developer the knowledge that is usually only acquired after many different projects. I keep this book as a JSP bible now, after downloading the examples I also have a library of working code examples that kick started my project. The main thing is that I really don't need the book anymore because it explained everything so well that the knowledge really sunk in.
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Summary: Ideal or Idolatry?
Review: If you are looking to learn from scratch, this is NOT the book for you. If you are an experienced programmer and can fill in the glaring voids in textual presentation, it can be a good reference. JSP is essentially ASP+ as the book was written before the announcement of ASP+, there is only one minor mention of it. It does present a contextual case for JSP and Beans (not EJB!). Beans are essentially components not unlike MS COM components or even OCX's. The good thing in the book is a REAL discussion of encapsulation of business logic as opposed to the other "pure" Bean books that prattle on and on with GUI stuff. The book suffers from being disjointed and has a distinctly academic flavor, but if you are experienced with Servlets or classes and know how to JAR and where to deploy, you will find it useful.
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