Beginning JSP, JSF and Tomcat Web Development: From Novice to Professional [Paperback]

Giulio Zambon (Author), Michael Sekler (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1590599047 | ISBN-13: 978-1590599044 | Publication Date: November 28, 2007 | Edition: 1

As the majority of Java developers are only Web-tier developers; Java technologies like JavaServer Pages (JSP), JavaServer Faces (JSF), and Apache Tomcat are mainly applicable and relevant to their needs.

Beginning JSP, JSF and Tomcat: From Novice to Professional is the first and maybe even only beginning level book of its kind combining the naturally complimentary JSP, JSF and Tomcat Web technologies into one consolidated treatment for developers focusing on just Java Web application development and deployment.

This book is examples-driven using a practical, real-work e-commerce case study and scenario throughout book.

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About the Author

Giulio Zambon is Head of Technology and Operations at World Television. He also belongs at the Society of Scientific Exploration. He is a practicing Java Web application developer using the latest JSF, JSP, Tomcat as well as Struts standards.

Product Details

• Paperback: 472 pages
• Publisher: Apress; 1 edition (November 28, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1590599047
• ISBN-13: 978-1590599044
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 7.9 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #278,702 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Giulio was born and grew up in Rome (Italy). While in high school, he was part of the team that represented Italy at the IX International Mathematics Olympiad. He completed his studies with a doctorate in Physics from the University of Rome - La Sapienza, where he graduated cum laude among the best of his class.

After a period of teaching Electric Engineering and a fifteen-month stint in the technical corps of the Italian army, he joined the computer industry as a software developer. In the ensuing thirty years, his career took him to eight cities in five different countries. He worked as a software developer, systems consultant, process improvement manager, project manager, and chief operating officer.

In 1992, Giulio founded in Perth (Australia) the company Rainbow Hill Pty Ltd, to do system consulting and software development. He liquidated it in 1994 when he moved to Switzerland. In 2002 he tested once more his entrepreneurial skills by founding SynerVox SA in Zurich (Switzerland). The company provided Telecom services, with particular focus on Interactive Voice Response, and operated for almost five years with reasonable success.

Giulio holds the Australian citizenship and, towards the end of 2007, he decided, in agreement with his wife Monika, that it was time to stop running around like a headless chook and return to Australia for good.

Since early 2008, he lives in a peaceful suburb a few kilometres North of Canberra, where he can dedicate himself to his many interests, ranging from writing to walking, from Science Fiction to History, and from Quantum Mechanics to Robotics.

Giulio is a full member of the Society for Scientific Exploration, a professional organisation of scientists and other scholars focused on phenomena that cross traditional scientific boundaries and are inadequately studied within mainstream science.

Giulio's websites are http://zambon.com.au/, where you can read about him and his interests, and http://giuliozambon.blogspot.com, where you can read what he thinks on a variety of subjects.

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good start at using technologies, April 18, 2008

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jzukowski (Boston, MA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Beginning JSP, JSF and Tomcat Web Development: From Novice to Professional (Paperback)

Okay, I haven't touched JavaServer Pages in some time and this book got me back up to speed pretty quickly. Adding in JSF was easy, which I hadn't used before. It does start a little too basic for my needs and doesn't go quite as deep as I'd like, but overall will have you using JSP and JSF with MySQL within Tomcat pretty quickly. The title is Beginning JSP..., so not going as deep as I'd like is not the book's problem, but more now its time for me to go to the next level and probably look into one of the Pro books.

One complaint with the book is the excessive appendices, almost half. Maybe it is just me, but I think eight pages to specify HTML characters and another 40 pages for an HTML reference seems excessive for the book's topic. With Beginning in the title, I was thinking more beginning JSP and JSF, not beginning HTML.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Way to little JSF, September 13, 2009

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Stephen L. Mcconnell (Carrolton, Ga United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Beginning JSP, JSF and Tomcat Web Development: From Novice to Professional (Paperback)

This book is far to basic and superficial in its treatment of Java Server Faces than anticipated.

There are far too many chapters on how to set up the supporting services and far to little on Java Server Faces. With 8 chapters and 8 appendixes there is only 1 chapter and one appendix on JSF. The other chapters deal with an overview of Web Pages in General, an overview of JSPs, an overview of setting up MySQL (only for a Windows platform), an overview of setting up Tomcat 6 (again only for the Windows Platform) and the underlying structure of Tomcat 6, a superficial discussion of XML technologies such as XPath and XSLT (there are whole BOOKS written on this), a superficial discussion of CSS and HTML and an appendix on the Eclipse platform (ignoring NetBeans or other valid IDE's).

If one is rusty on some of the technologies, it is a great review. But a person new to JSP's and Java Web technology would be very quick to get lost. This does not take you from Novice to Professional. It a surface scratch of a handful of the basic technologies and leaves one wanting. Nowhere near a Professional developer.

On the plus side, if one IS rusty, the discussion of JSP's is a very quick and down and dirty get one back up to speed on Intrinsic Objects, JSP directives JSTL and EL and a slam, bang, thank you mam' on custom tag libraries.

It would do better to get Pro JSP 2, Fourth Edition (Expert's Voice in Java) or a book specifically on JSF if you want to learn JSF.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Usefull Book, March 29, 2009

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Beginning JSP, JSF and Tomcat Web Development: From Novice to Professional (Paperback)

This book is a good source for beginnerr and a little reference about JSP and JSF. If you need more specific information about the titles you will need another book.