Java Servlets by Example

by Alan R. Williamson

An excellent reference for cutting-edge technology that is leaner, faster, portable, and easy to maintain. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 188477766X
• ISBN13: 9781884777660
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: Manning Publications
• Length: 548 Pages
• Weight: 2.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.5" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A great start to servlets

The negative reviews on this book smack of a political witch hunt against the author. This is an excellent starter book for servlets that contains realistic examples that work. Are there some negatives, sure - there are in all books. As a whole, this book is a useful reference and a good read. I have and would recommend it again to folks starting out with Servlets.

Crazy reviews

Most of the reviews are so unreasonably negative that I have decided on 5 stars, although I think 3 1/2 is about right. The examples are not so trivial and are in fact useful. The way each problem is presented is, I think, pretty good. The author covers plenty of popular topics such as online shopping, search engines, chats, RMI and JDBC. I like the way the code is given piece by piece and then finally in its complete form. Why other readers found this approach so awful is a mystery to me. It's certainly far from being a waste of money.

An excellent real-world Servlet book

Having looked through some of these comments before I have to say one of them is a little harsh. I believe the book is well laid out, with a clear and concise progression throughout the whole servlet life cycle. This book also benefits from the fact that it covers the 2.1 API where as the others do not. It is a great book, and I have it on my desk all the time to use for reference.

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I'm surprised at the previous review. I have not read the whole book, but I've read enough of it form a favorable opinion. One of the first things the book tells you is that the entire source code can be downloaded off the web in zip format, so I'm puzzled why the previous reviewer found this so bad. Java in a Nutshell 2nd Ed does the same (no CD), as well as so many others. As for the sample code being fragmented, most of the examples end by giving the entire code, so chopping it up in the discussion can only help reader focus. Typesetting and captioning are more a matter of aesthetics, but this book exhibits nothing unusual so as to warrant the previous reviewer's comments (the Core Java series from Sunsoft Press has captions below, so is this unusual?)I like the way the book gives the class/interface specifications before further discussions. Discussions on performance and implementation are helpful, especially those who want to thin out their old applets using servlets. I have not read the full examples in detail, but a preliminary read gave me a good impression of the exposition. It's true that there are many such implementations available on the Web, but it's more of the thinking behind the coding that I'm after.I normally don't give 5 stars, but I felt that the last review was not very fair, so some sort of balance is in order. It helps though to know some Java when reading this book.