Servlets and JavaServer Pages Technology Web Tier
Series: The DevelopMentor Series This is the authoritative tutorial to the JSP 2.0 and Servlets 2.4 specifications written by JSP W3C expert committee members–Jayson Falkner, JSPInsider founder and WebMaster, and Kevin Jones, DevelopMentor UK co-founder. Servlets and JavaServer Pages is a complete guide to building web applications using Java Servlets and JavaServer Pages. The book covers the basics including installing a JSP/Servlet environment on your computer, HTTP, HTML forms, JSP 2.0, Servlets 2.4, custom tag libraries, and the JSTL 1.0. The book also covers the most complex topics of error handling, design patterns, internationalization and multi-lingual sites, security, sessions and state management, database connectivity, and building sites that can produce multiformats of content on the fly. This book explains how to create applications using the Servlet and JSP specifications that are robust, performant and scaleable!… More >>
Servlets and JavaServer Pages Technology Web Tier
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Don’t waste your time reading this book.
About 10% of this book is information worth knowing. The rest is “packaging material” ( How the books is organized?, What are we going to do next? and countless repetitions ).
All Java web tier developers owe it to themselves, their projects, and their career to get this book and devour it. Jayson and Kevin go deep into each of the various topics and provide tried and true practical and detailed best practices.
I came across this book after reading articles written by the authors on sites devoted to Java development.
The short articles written by the authors were insightful and thorough.
My expectations for the book were high but the end results were far below the standards I was expecting. It appears that the authors (or editors) were lost as to the focus of the book. The writing style is tedious to follow. The order of the book is haphazard.
The book starts off at getting a Hello World application up and running – for Servlets. The following chapter is a similar introduction to JSP.
The authors seem preoccupied with Internalization – this appears all over the book.
Subsequent chapters cover exception handling, security, JSP tags etc.
You may find nuggets of useful references in this book – sparsely located but they do exist. Hence the two stars – but it still does not justify the sticker price.
I came across this book after reading articles written by the authors on sites devoted to Java development.
The short articles written by the authors were insightful and thorough.
My expectations for the book were high but the end results are far below the standards I was expecting. It appears that the authors (or editors) were lost as to the focus of the book. The writing style is tedious to follow. The order of the book is haphazard.
The book starts off at getting a Hello World application up and running – for Servlets. The following chapter is a similar introduction to JSP.
The authors seem preoccupied with Internalization – this appears all over the book.
Subsequent chapters cover exception handling, security, JSP tags etc.
You may find nuggets of useful references in this book – sparsely located but they do exist. Hence the two stars – but it still does not justify the sticker price.
I have to admit that I haven’t finished this book, but I may never accomplish that and retain any hair on my head. Each page requires me to pull a little more hair out of my head in frustration. If you want to get a sampling of the prose “just consider that as I read each and every page I attain a level of frustration at the wasted and unclear words that dominate the very page I am reading and make me almost feel that the authors may in fact just be using needless words to bulk up the book rather than to make the book readable or useful and because of that I want to pull my hair out.” Yes that’s the way the book is written. About this time the authors will tell you that they’ve covered all the information that they wanted to in this paragraph and are now moving on to the next one.
I have to agree with the reviewer who suggested saving your time and money on another book. This is by far the worst book I’ve ever read on jsp and servlets and it makes me very angry that I didn’t spend my money elsewhere.
I particularly take to task the editors of Addison-Wesley who have put out some of the best computer programming books I’ve read. Did they send all their copy editors on vacation as this book came out? There’s not the slightest hint of copy editing.
Beyond my complaints about the prose the content isn’t much either. Compared to the O’Reilly jsp and servlet books or the Marty Hall books, or the SCWCD certifications books from Manning and Wrox this books is truly horrible and not very useful. All of them cover these technologies better and with prose that actually is enjoyable reading.
All in all I have to say that Addison-Wesley ought to be embarrassed by this one.