Essential JavaScript for Web Professionals [Paperback]

Dan Barrett (Author), Dan Livingston (Author), Micah Brown (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0130130567 | ISBN-13: 978-0130130563 | Publication Date: August 3, 1999 | Edition: 1st

Learn JavaScript fast, as you build two Web sites that reflect today's most common scenarios: a company selling products and educating visitors; and a content site selling ads and subscriptions. Coverage includes: detecting browsers and platforms; dynamic content creation; image rollovers; pulldown menus; logins; error handling; JavaScript windows and frames; drill-down navigation; and much more. The sites are posted on the Web, so you can reuse the code, and see how your pages should look -- and work! Essential JavaScript for Web Programmers is part of a new series of books that share the same dynamic Web site, and can teach all the Web development skills you need, from PERL to Photoshop -- fast!

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Suitable for intermediate to advanced Java programmers, Enterprise Java Programming with IBM WebSphere is an up-to-the-minute guide to creating server software using the latest Java standards. It's a perfect one-volume resource for getting on board with some of the best ideas on the Java platform for building enterprise software.

While most books focus on Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) and related standards without looking at particular Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) tools, this title zeros in on IBM's popular VisualAge and WebSphere products for building and deploying Java software. The book does a good job of explaining the higher-level principles when it comes to Java standards like Servlets, JSP, and EJB. The more abstract material on the best ways to combine these front-end and back-end technologies is anchored by chapters that show how to use the real IBM tools.

Sections on modeling EJBs, for example, show you how to build real EJBs in VisualAge (including some fine material on associations that will let you model even complex database schemas with Java components). Another plus is material on the specifics of deploying Beans on the WebSphere platform, including tips on editing XML descriptor data. With today's J2EE standards, the genius is in the details. This book strikes a good balance between theory and practical advice. It gives you some of Sun's current best practices, like the Model-View-Controller (MVC). With fast-moving and useful tutorials on Servlet JSP and EJB standards, the authors also discuss layering of components on the server to achieve the separation of presentation and business logic, a must for today's Java Web applications. Patterns and other strategies for making sure you separate the tiers are also introduced.

By anchoring a state-of-the-art tour of Java with samples using real IBM tools, this title provides what Java developers need to use JSPs and EJBs effectively in real projects to solve real business problems. It's quite simply one of the best available tutorials for learning how to build successful Web applications in Java. --Richard Dragan

Topics covered:

• Survey of e-commerce for business
• Review of computer architecture (from client/server to Web-based multitiered systems)
• Introduction to the Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) and Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB)
• The Model-View-Controller (MVC) design pattern (including layered applications)
• HTTP and Servlet basics
• Introduction to IBM VisualAge for EJB development
• The IBM WebSphere Test Environment (WTE)
• IBM WebSphere Application Server for EJBs (installing and configuration hints and using XMLConfig)
• Managing session state
• IBM WebSphere Studio tutorial (including JSP development with Page Designer)
• Servlet design guidelines (including patterns, exception handling, Servlet chaining, and filtering)
• JSP tutorial (including expressions and directives)
• Direct and indirect models for JSPs
• Using Beans with JSPs
• Testing and deploying JSPs
• Custom tag libraries
• Case study for an employee timesheet Web application (including use cases and class diagrams)
• EJB tutorial (including session and entity Beans)
• How to use VisualAge to build EJBs (including object-relational mapping tools)
• Testing and debugging EJBs
• EJB clients
• Container-managed and Bean-managed persistence
• EJB transactions
• Advanced CMP mapping techniques (including associations)
• Techniques for layered applications in EJBs (using facade and factory classes)
• Deploying EJBs in WebSphere

--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From the Back Cover

With JavaScript, you can build sites that look hotter and work smarter than ever before! Now, learn JavaScript by example, from two leading Fortune 500 Web developers! You'll learn all you need to get results as you build real-world practice sites that sell products, educate visitors, offer subscriptions, and display ads. Best of all, the finished sites are on the Web—so you can reuse the code and see exactly how your pages should look and work!

Write JavaScript to do all this, and much more!

• Detect browsers and platforms
• Create content dynamically
• Create image rollovers
• Enhance navigation
• Provide error handling
• Generate windows
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Product Details

• Paperback: 198 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall Ptr; 1st edition (August 3, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0130130567
• ISBN-13: 978-0130130563
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.8 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (45 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,549,950 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

35 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Learn JavaScript Now! (but not with this book), January 7, 2000

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Brian Donnelly (Tigard, OR USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Essential JavaScript for Web Professionals (Paperback)

Some of the hardest things to find in life are people who hate pizza, short lines and good Java books. This book is nothing short of a waist of time if you are not experienced with Javascript. The examples in this book are consistantly flawed with mistakes that would make any programmer want to slap the editor. There is no resource for accessing the scripts from the web like in the other essential books, leaving you to figure out how the hell to get the script working because the example they gave you is erroring all over the place. The only way I could recommend this book would be if you were looking for ideas on how to program. It gives some interesting concepts of how to accomplish some neet things with Javascript. It might make a good companion for study but I would keep a dish of holy water and some salt nearby, you'll need it. Other than that stay away from this book, I wouldn't wish this catastrophy on my worst enemy...well maybe.

25 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Proper Coding Would Help, November 17, 1999

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S. Samuel (Bronx, NY now Jersey City, NJ) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Essential JavaScript for Web Professionals (Paperback)

I really regretted buying this book. For the most part it's a descent book but for it's not for a beginner. There were a few tags that the code left out. I'm referring to the scripting for JavaScript Navigation. The FORM tag was missing and it wasn't giving a NAME attribute. A beginner would not have picked this up so easily. I don't recommend this for beginners. If you really want the book, contact me and I'll give you my copy...

21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Good idea.. poor delivery -- beginners don't bother!, April 23, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Essential JavaScript for Web Professionals (Paperback)

I liked the start of the book. You have just been hired to improve the web site for Shelly Biotechnologies..... The book contains a series of assignments or projects you solve. I don't see how a beginner can understand any of yet. I am professional programmer looking for teaching material for a JavaScript class. If I selected this book I would have had to teach a lot of programming concepts because the authors left it all out or didn't cover it in sufficient detail. I also agree with the folks about the numerous errors. I also question the programming expertise of the authors. I saw some unneccesary consructs that grated on my programming nerves (how could they miss it? do they really know how to program?) If they meant to produce a "copy and paste" approach to JavaScript. By this I mean, copy and paste this into your HTML make the required changes for your images or objects and don't worry about understanding anything. They failed. If it was meant to teach PROGRAMMING Javascript, they failed. If it was meant to familiarize a professional programmer with Javascript, they failed here too. So what was the point? I instruct my students to first "identify your audience", these authors should have done the same! I do not recommend this book. Check out the book "Internet & World Wide Web, How to Program" by Deitel. It is my selection as a JavaScript text. This book is not on my supplemental recommendation list.