Beginning JSP 2.0 [Paperback]

Ben Galbraith (Author), Peter den Haan (Author), Lance Lavandowska (Author), Sathya Narayana Panduranga (Author), Krishnaraj Perrumal (Author), Erick Sgarbi (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 2003

JavaServer Pages (JSP) is an established and popular technology for building dynamic web applications that can access databases and provide an interactive experience for your website's users. This book uses the new version of JSP – JSP 2.0 – which makes JavaServer Pages more powerful and much easier to program.

In this book you'll learn how the web works and how JSP fits in, how to get input from the user and create web pages "on the fly", and how JavaBeans, components, and tag libraries allow you to make your code more readable and easier to maintain. The book also covers how to handle errors in your code, the best ways of designing web applications, and finishes with a comprehensive case study that builds a browser-based project management tool easily adaptable to many businesses.

JSP is built on top of the Java programming language, so this book will additionally teach you the fundamentals of Java alongside JSP itself.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

This book assumes some basic knowledge of HTML, but no real programming experience is required. This book is also suitable for more experienced programmers who need an introduction to Java and web programming. All the code can be used on a Windows or UNIX (e.g. Linux) system.

Product Details

• Paperback: 880 pages
• Publisher: Wrox Press (February 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1861008317
• ISBN-13: 978-1861008312
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.2 x 1.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #139,596 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Pretty Good, March 1, 2005

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Cameron Freiner "CFreiner" (Jefferson City, MO) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Beginning JSP 2.0 (Paperback)

Pretty good book. It is for people with little or no java experience. Found several typos and code errors that I didn't find any documentation for!

P.S. The source code IS available for download at http://support.apress.com/

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Simple tutorials, November 19, 2003

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This review is from: Beginning JSP 2.0 (Paperback)

The book is supposed to serve as tutorials for people who even don't know Java programming language. It could live up for it promise only if authors would care not to make so many typos and mistakes sprinkled throughout the text. Some examples are impossible to get to work correctly unless reader is experienced in reading and understanding specifications to Servlets and JSP. One example is writing Simple Tag in chapter 9. It will never work the way the authors presented it.
Some techniques are used inconsistently, for example, scriplets are used in sample code where more advanced Expression Language or Standard Tag Library would do. JSTL tags are not clearly explained and can be confusing to understand and difficult to memorize.
Despite limitations mentioned above, the book manages to teach JSP. At least for Java programmers, the book is easy to read through at good pace and pick up fairy good understanding of JSP and even Struts framework. It would not make good reference though and the determined learner will need a lot of other material on the subject.

10 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars This is good book, June 23, 2003

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Xian Lao Yao (Singapore) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Beginning JSP 2.0 (Paperback)

I took out one star is beacause the part on setting up Apache tomcat, Java SDK and other software in Linux is vaque.
On the whole it is a book. It shows you many examples and most importantly the book explain the examples in great details.
I would recommend this book to people who has knowledge in aleast one programming language.