JSP: JavaServer Pages [Paperback]

Barry Burd (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 15, 2001 | ISBN-10: 0764535358 | ISBN-13: 978-0764535352

This book presents JavaServer Pages in a clear, readable, no-nonsense fashion. The book takes you through all steps in the creation of a JSP document -- including evaluating the usefulness of JSP in a real-world project, researching alternative approaches, planning and designing a Web site based on JavaServer Pages, coding a JSP document, testing and revising the document, making the document available on the Web, integrating the JSP document with existing pages on a Web site, and maintaining the JSP document. The CD includes Apache Web Server, .Tomcat JSP Implementation Server, and sample code from the book.

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From the Back Cover

"If you want to add JSP to your Web-building arsenal, this book will help you get rapid results." --Al Williams, Java columnist, Web Techniques and technical editor of this book

Your Complete Guide to Creating Dynamic Web Content with JSP
In this authoritative guide, Professor Barry Burd shows you step by step how to capitalize on JavaServer Pages, the Sun Microsystems solution for interactive Web pages. Writing with real-world challenges in mind, he explains the steps in writing JSP documents -- and then walks you through several case studies. Complete with ready-to-run Web pages and programs on CD-ROM, this book delivers all you need to create state-of-the-art Web sites with JavaServer Pages.

Get the Know-How You Need to Build a JSP-Powered Site
* Understand the ins and outs of JSP technology
* Develop JSP on Windows, Unix/Linux, and other platform
* Integrate JSP documents with back-end databases
* Code, test, and revise JSP documents efficiently
* Integrate JSP documents with existing pages on a site
* Maintain and update JSP documents
* Create an online shopping cart
* Build a Web portal and an online game
* Construct a message board Web site
CD-ROM INCLUDES
* Ready-to-run sample code from the book
* Apache Web Server
* ServeletExec, evaluation version
* JData Connect Standard Edition, trial version
* An entire suite of Web development tools
* Tomcat JSP Implementation Server
* IBM WebSphere Studio Entry Editions, V3.5 for Windows, trial copy

About the Author

BARRY BURD is a professor at Drew University in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. He as been involved with the Internet since 1988 and has presented papers on Java at conferences in the United States, Europe, Asia, and Australia.

Product Details

• Paperback: 456 pages
• Publisher: Wiley (April 15, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764535358
• ISBN-13: 978-0764535352
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,881,090 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellence JSP Introductory Book for Novice, April 26, 2003

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JHLim (Singapore) - See all my reviews

This review is from: JSP: JavaServer Pages (Paperback)

It was very well written with lots of examples and with very clear and patience type of explanation.

Pros:
1. The very clear and well-organized layout of this M&T Books is definitely a PLUS for easy reading.
2. Even though this book was written for JSP 1.0 or 1.1 that used a lot of scriptlets but the codes are not clutters especially with Java Beans.
3. The online message board case study is one of the fine examples.

Cons:
1. It has omitted the detail of how to compile the Java code especially those with packages. This may be tough for those are new to Java programming.
2. Limited to Microsoft Access database. Since this is a Java related technologies, the cross-platform RDBMS should be used such as the freely available open source databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL (with cygwin).
3. The rather restrictive Hungry Minds, Inc. End-User License Agreement imposed on the accompanied CD. So, the book's examples may within the scope of this agreement. Most of the books published to date have used GPL license for their accompanied codes.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Thumbs Up, October 28, 2002

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Jeffrey A. Caswell "Cas-Tel Computer Consulting" (Manassas, VA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: JSP: JavaServer Pages (Paperback)

Barry Burd does an excellent job covering what you need to know to come up to speed quickly. He covers all the bases and explains it in a way that makes it easy and fun to learn. I will be looking for more of his books in the future.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Intro To JSP, October 20, 2002

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David Arnow (Brooklyn, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: JSP: JavaServer Pages (Paperback)

Yes, another (well-deserved) 5-star review. The author does not get bogged down in covering every feature of JSP but rather focuses on the ones that are either essential in practice or that help establish a conceptual foundation. The author is not only an expert in the subject, but understands the newcomer too. This makes the presentation highly effective. (My favorite example of this is his gentle JFK-esque warning in the introduction to Java Beans: "don't ask yourself why you may or may not need [JavaBeans]... Instead, ask yourself how can you integrate these ... into the way you think about solving programming problems".)

One more point-- if you're an experience Java programmer, don't be put off by the fact that he explains elementary Java along the way. Those parts are easily skimmed over. This is the fastest way to get into the essence of JSP that you'll find.