Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages

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Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2004 8:31 am by ndaru

Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages

Author(s): Marty Hall, Larry Brown
Publication: August 2003
Paperback: 736 pages
ISBN: 0130092290
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR

Book excerpts:

Suppose your company wants to sell products online. You have a database that gives the price and inventory status of each item. But, your database doesn't speak HTTP, the protocol that Web browsers use. Nor does it output HTML, the format Web browsers need. What can you do? Once users know what they want to buy, how do you gather that information? You want to customize your site for visitors' preferences and interests--how? You want to keep track of user's purchases as they shop at your site--what techniques are required to implement this behavior? When your Web site becomes popular, you might want to compress pages to reduce bandwidth. How can you do this without causing your site to fail for the 30% of visitors whose browsers don't support compression? In all these cases, you need a program to act as the intermediary between the browser and some server-side resource. This book is about using the Java platform for this type of program.

The primary audience of this book is developers who are familiar with the basics of the Java programming language itself but have little or no experience with server-side applications. For you, virtually the entire book should be valuable; with the possible exception of the JSP 2.0 expression language (which is not applicable if you are using a server that is compliant only with JSP 1.2), you are likely to use capabilities from almost every chapter in almost every real-world application.

The second group of audience is composed of people who are familiar with basic servlet and JSP development and want to learn how to make use of the new capabilities we just described. If you are in this category, you can skim many of the chapters, focusing on the capabilities that are new in servlets 2.4, JSP 2.0, or JDBC 3.0.

Although this book is well suited for both experienced servlet and JSP programmers and newcomers to the technology, it assumes that you are familiar with basic Java programming. You don't have to be an expert Java developer, but if you know nothing about the Java programming language, this is not the place to start. After all, servlet and JSP technology is an application of the Java programming language. If you don't know the language, you can't apply it. So, if you know nothing about basic Java development, start with a good introductory book like Thinking in Java, Core Java, or Core Web Programming. Read this book after you are comfortable with at least the basics.

Reviews:

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Concise reference material, good small usable examples that support the material, and the book has been error-free for me so far.

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For this book I would like to say: a) this is current, covers JSP1.1 b) gives you enough example code to design web pages using technology other than servlets. c) gives a in depth understanding of servlets and jsp which is required in troubleshooting.

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It will tell you pretty much everything you need to know about writing real applications with Servlets and/or JSP, including good coverage of how to integrate multiple JSPs and servlets together to build a real application.