Customer Reviews

Java Servlets with CDROM (Enterprise Computing)

5 star:		(9)
4 star:		(5)
3 star:		(5)
2 star:		(5)
1 star:		(8)

 

 

The author obviously knows what he is talking about. However, he is quite inept at explaining to his reader what he is doing. In fact, he rarely tries. He just has sample code, helps you set up the java webserver, then has you run the code. It is more about webserver configuration than it is about servlet programming

I flicked through this title in the bookshop, while looking for some good servlet titles. The coverage of this book is pretty shallow - for example their only mention of cookies is an API listing. Most servlet books cover cookies and session management, as well as more advanced (but related) servlet topics. I'd highly recommend "Inside Servlets : Server-Side Programming for the Java Platform" by Dustin R. Callaway instead.

This book gives a brief introduction to servlet programming. If you are a beginner then this book is for you. If have some experience with web programming then you might want to look for another title. Buy this if you are new to Java and Servlets....

Moss is good in JDBC, so nearly 1/3 of the book focus on JDBC instead of java servlets, if you are really want to learn servlets, don't buy this book.

As I said above, the book focus on JDBC, not servlet, so the material covered on servlet is not enough, especially for beginner, they may not even know how to get a parameter from a form.

Read oreally or wrox instead, don't buy this book if you really want to learn servlet. Only buy this when you like JDBC on java servlet.

Sketchy coverage. I have gained very little from this book. There are much better books: Core Servlets,Hall; O'reilly Servlets, Hunter ...

It is clearly explained what are different types of formats in which data can be submitted over Internet and also it clearly explains step by step how to setup the JRun Server for running Servlets. Some part of setting up Java Web Server is also touched.

This book not only gives you a great introduction to programming servlets (including hosting and configuration, chaining, etc.) but also delves into related topics such as HTTP tunneling and using introspection to simplify servlet programming. I especially liked the amount of JDBC/RMI information included in the book since many servlets written will want to interface to other Java servers or databases. Having written an article on servlets for BYTE, I was pleased to find this much information packed in the book. My only disappointment is that the author didn't include more on managing state with servlets (e.g. through cookies) and about the future of servlets (covering developments such as Servlet Beans, and the impact, if any, of EJB on the servlet standard). All in all, a great servlet book!

This is a great book on Servlets. I don't understand why there are so many bad reviews on this book. It teaches you the basics and goes beyond the API docs.

If you want a thorough walkthrough of the Java Servlet FAQ, then go grab the book by Jason Hunter :-).

I am a Microsoft Certified VB programmer, trained in C as my first language, who is trying to crossover to Java. The whole notion of servlets and what they can do for you as compared to MTS solutions, is incredible. So for me, this book was an excellent first book. I found the explanations to be clear, though not everything I tried "worked" as it was supposed to. Might have been user error; I don't know. I found it very difficult to get the examples to run by importing into JBuilder2, which is my IDE. Required a good deal of tweaking. But once I did, the examples really helped. As everyone but me probably knows before buying this book, there are equally good examples available with the free JDK, and with JavaWebserver free demo. Whatever, I found the book very useful.

I tried this book after getting thoroughly frustrated with the O'Reilly Servlet book, that seems to be getting unwarrented good reviews. I read both books, and as a Java newbie I was only able to learn somthing from the Java Masters book. The experienced Java Programmers around me found the O'Reilly book to be insightful, however they only read it they didnt try it, I tried this book and refused to move on until I could get it to work, I didnt not until I read this book and applied the code fixes from this book and everything worked as predicted.

However I had one problem with this book, it guides you through the early chapters pointing out everything you need to know, however as you move into more complicated applications, explanations became short and less cohesive.

Overall I thought the book was very good especially for beginners.