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Summary: No 1 Book of JSP Techniques
Review: This book covers the chapters in a very structured way. It starts with a concise description of the JSP Basics with a detailed explanation of the concepts. It explains all the concepts in a very clear and simple words supported by an equally clear Comments and examples. Any body with a little of Java experience can become very familiar with the JSP syntax and concepts by reading first few chapters. It covers all the necessary JSP syntax for building a small web application to a very large distributed Application. It also explains about the way the JSP pages are processed by different web servers. For example it explains about the various methods available to maintain a persistence session and their merits and demerits. This is the first book in JSP series that explains not only the concepts of JSP and how effectively one can use them with the help of this book. It also covers various other topics like EJB, JNDI, JDBC, XML, XSLT and WML in very detailed way. Overall I feel this is the greatest JSP book ever published so far. I could build a simple and robust JSP Web application by reading the first few chapters in a short period of time.
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Summary: Coding mistakes take away from this otherwise good book.
Review: This book is definitely a good book. It contains all sorts of info ranging from EJB to JSP to Connection Pooling. The only thing is that the code examples have a ton of errors in it. That and it always makes references to downloading the source code. You shouldn't have to go and download the code in order to complete an example. So...if you are looking for a book that has the info in it, but not the examples...then this book is for you.
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Summary: One of the best intermediate level JSP books on the market
Review: This books lives up to its title in that it provides both real-world JSP techniques (through 7 very informative case studies chapters), as well as JSP background information that serves as a quick start guide. I rank it as one of the top 2 JSP books currently available (the other one is Web Development With JavaServer Pages by Messrs. Fields and Kolb).After the JSP fundamentals are out of the way (which I am sure any JSP newcomer will appreciate and can benefit from), the book picks up pace with discussion on JDBC connection pooling, and the best practice for data access from JSP. Then comes the chapter on custom tags. My favorite chapters are the ones on debugging JSP's and implementing the MVC design pattern in JSP/servlets. The case studies are very comprehensive and closely correlated to the earlier chapters. In one case study the design methodology is clearly explained with UML diagrams, which are very helpful to someone who is currently architecting an enterprise Java Web application. Other case studies cover such a wide area of topics such as JSP in combination with LDAP, EJB, XSL, and WAP. For ASP developers, this books has two enormously useful chapters to get them started on JSP right away. One is a case study showing how to port an ASP app to JSP, and the other compares and contrasts the object model and syntax between ASP and JSP. Having said all the above, this book does suffer from certain weaknesses. One is typical of any multi-author book, i.e., repeat of the same topic in different chapters. This is the case with JDBC, which shows up in both chapters 4 and 7. Another problem is the lack of the use of a standard servlet/JSP container, which will help new users to run all samples under the same software setting (although there is an appendix on setting up Tomcat server). Finally, a few chapters seem to be out of place in term of the logic flow of concept, such as the ones on dynamic GUI's and JNDI. Finally, this book is still thin on heavy-duty J2EE topics, such as EJB, distributed transactions, message service, and interoperability with CORBA. This is why I consider it as an intermediate level book, not an advanced one. Hopefully we will see another Wrox book in the near future that addresses some of these issues.
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Summary: Excellent book for professionals!
Review: This is a book for programmers who have a solid background in servlets programming and some experience in JSP. For beginners and for people who wish to learn those techniques on a standalone machine, they will be better off with Hall's "core servlets & JSP" or Fields&Kolb's "web development & JSP". The book consists of 20 chapters. The first 12 chapters discuss the various salient aspects of JSP and the rest ( about two third of the whole book) is devoted to case studies. A. THE BOOK'S STRENGTH: By adopting Tomcat as its main testing software, the editors of "Professional JSP" have assured that most of the code examples will work. This is a big improvement over the past wrox books. There are some excellent chapters in the first part. The discussion on session tracking is a real gem although the author failed to make a showcase of the code examples. The chapter on JSP Architecture contains some of the clearest explaination on the techniques of redirecting, forwarding and requestdispatcher. The chapter on customtags is equally very well done. But my favorite is the chapter on Global Settings, the idea is so practical. I also like the idea of emphasizing the importance of authentication which showed in many chapters of the book. The case studies will serve as an excellent reference. Its coverage ranges from (1) the front end of an insurance company (2) a good pictures website which use JSP to publish its data (3) Security with JNDI (4) a online store using LDAP and JSP (5) J@EE, EIBs and Customtags (6) Multimedia and JSP (7) Weather website with JSP, XSLT and WAP (8) Porting ASP to JSP. 2. BOOK'S WEAKNESS: The book is a combined effort of many authours and its unevenness showed. The first three chapters to introduce to JSP are out of place and a real waste. The chapter on Dynamic GUIs is a great idea which turned into a joke: after showing the general diea how to do it, the author sent readers to his website to learn the rest(?). And the chapter on JDBC connectivity and Pooling is a big disappointment: most of the chapter devoted to get connection, create databse,editing it and make query; and the rest the author explained how to use his own pool manager package, PoolMan. This wouldn't be too bad if PoolMan worked, with Tomcat. The richness of the case studies is also its weakness. Unless you are experienced and have the facilities, you can't test them all. These techniques become obsolete pretty quick. Probably the strongest objection to the book is its price. Buy it for your company and share with your colleague.
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Summary: Excellent book for JSP novices
Review: This is an excellent book for anybody who already knows Java and wants to learn Java Server Pages. It goes through the basics an a reasonable speed with clear examples. It's also acts as a great reference book.
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Summary: Best book available on JSP technology yet
Review: This is best book I see available on market today on java server pages technology. Authors make good attempt at covering all the key concepts and anyone wanting to go beyond looking jsp specification and tutorials available on java.sun.com/jsp site. The book has good information on session tracking with JSP and use of cookies, Configuring Apache Tomcat for JSP runtime (which can be very useful or not useful if you are for example running out of the box preconfigured software such as oracle's internet application server). There are however few things that I don't like about the book: i) There are lots of authors who have contributed, which results into no particular style that you'd usually find in books from oreilly publishers for example. ii) Examples are detailed code and not aimed at providing a concept. Some of them are copyrighted by authors, so i am not sure if you can freely use the code in your applications.
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Summary: Asp to Jsp
Review: This looks like a good book if your familiar with java. It breaks down the Server page into the servlet code. If you come from an MS ASP background it can be a bit bewildering!! Otherwise it's up to the usual Wrox standard
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Summary: Good JSP book, but .......
Review: Too wordy, like other WROX books.
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Summary: The only definitive reference for JSP
Review: Wonderful stuff . Go for it . Covers the fundamental JSP concepts in great detail. Useful and clear cope snippets to makes the point even clearer. The initial chapters cover just the JSP concepts and the basic syntax. Tag libraries are covered in great detail. JNDI , JDBC , LDAP and XML interaction with JSP is covered and handled very well. The real strong point for the book is the case studies provided . The cases are real time scenarios and cover most of the J2EE technologies in context to JSP. This will be really useful for less experienced programmers. There are six or so case studies in all. The Servlet API documentation could have been avoided. In all, a real wonderful book
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Summary: I will not recommand
Review: Wrox has published some very good books on Java and web development,this book is not one of them.Though the authors have tried to cover everything related with JSP , the explanations about different topics are not very clear,very important topics like Cookies , session tracking etc have not given as much importnace as they deserve.There are some very good books available in the market like "Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages (JSP)" and "Web Development with Java Server Pages ", I would definitly prefer these books.
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