Professional JSP

by Danny Ayers, Karl Avedal, Timothy Briggs

Professional JavaServer Pages covers a wide variety of areas including design and architecture, JSPs and their relation to J2EE (Servlets, EJBs, JDBC etc) as well as extensive coverage of the tag... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1861003625
• ISBN13: 9781861003621
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Wrox Press
• Length: 936 Pages
• Weight: 3.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 7.3" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Your first JSP project?

If you are about to embark on your first JSP/EJB project then I really recommend this book.I am an experienced Java Applet programmer but was limited in html, JSP and EJB skills. The book took me through everything I needed to know and got me up to speed very rapidly.The book teaches JSP but it also explains the many different design approaches and gives examples of their use in real scenarios. This gives the developer the knowledge that is usually only acquired after many different projects.I keep this book as a JSP bible now, after downloading the examples I also have a library of working code examples that kick started my project.The main thing is that I really don't need the book anymore because it explained everything so well that the knowledge really sunk in.

No 1 Book of JSP Techniques

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.

The only definitive reference for JSP

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

Great resource!

Provides good coverage of many aspects of JSP. By utilizing the multi-author approach, the book draws on the expertise of many hands and gives the developer a broad perspective on writing and managing Java Server Pages. The book covers a wide range of topics and includes real world case studies of task you need to do on the job. Plenty of code examples, too.

One of the best intermediate level JSP books on the market

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.