JSP Examples and Best Practices

by Andrew Patzer

Book Overview

Andrew Patzer was the principal author of the best-selling "Professional Java Server Programming", one of the first books to cover J2EE technologies. He is well-known in the industry as a leading J2EE developer.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1590590201
• ISBN13: 9781590590201
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Apress
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

The best book on JSP / Web application development

This book draws a clear picture on JSP web application development. If you are a JSP beginner, this book is a must read. It teaches you the right way to do things from the beginning. I really enjoyed its step by step approach that leads to the framework based application development, makes a lot of sense to me.

Enormously helpful

This book, more than any other I've read has opened my eyes to MVC programming with JavaServer pages. The examples were easy to follow and the text was very readable. With every page I was learning that I really hadn't understood as well as I thought!

Design Patterns

I wanted a book not only on JSP, but on Servelts and how to interact between them. I already knew how to do that, but I wanted to know how others approached this problem and pick up on some good habits or industry standards.The title made me pick up the book, examples and best practices, exactly what I wanted. Scanning the table of contents is what made me buy the book. Something the title does not give away is that this book covers JSP/Servlet design patterns. This is key! I haven't seen any other book cover this topic and expand upon it with full examples. If you are unsure what design patterns are or don't understand yet why they are beneficial.. nay essential, read Design Patterns from Addison Wesley.The end of this book takes you through developing a web application framework that will assist you in developing web apps faster, consistently, and less buggy.Covers JSP, Servlets, JUnit, JMeter, Ant, CVS, Customer Tags, JavaBeans. Despite coving these many topics it is not stretched too thin. Good writing style and sticks to the topic of JSP/Servlet interaction. The example code is decent. The fact that the code is given in full, build up through the book, and compiled into one nice app is what counts though.Unfortunately since there is a quite a bit of source code, it is a quick read which to me battles with the hefty price tag on the book. Then again, for what you can take out of that book, whats a few extra bucks.

An excellent book for serious JSP Developers

You might ask why another book on Java Server Pages? Here is this answer. Andrew Patzer's "JSP Examples and Best Practices" sets the standard that other JSP books should be measured against. This book goes beyond the basics of Java Server Pages and looks at how to really leverage a JSP-based architecture for enterprise applications. Andrew's book is concise and too the point. It has none of the fluff you see in most books. Being an application architect, I appreciated the texts in-depth analysis of different applications of common JSP design patterns. His writing style is straightforward and easy to understand.This book is a must for any serious Java/JSP developer. This book is a going to be a permanent fixture in my development library.