Making Use of JSP [Paperback]

Madhushree Ganguli (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0471219746 | ISBN-13: 978-0471219743 | Publication Date: July 15, 2002 | Edition: 1st

JavaServer Pages (JSP) is a multipurpose language based on Java technology that provides a simplified, fast way to create dynamic Web content. JSP is specific to Web page creation and rendering, and is a key Web technology for developers and administrators working with Java.

• Explains how JSP can be used to simplify tasks, shorten the development cycle, and integrate Web content with other elements of J2EE
• Shows how JSP enables Web designers and other nonprogrammers to quickly gain essential abilities for the creation of dynamic Web pages

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From the Back Cover

Quickly learn how to create dynamic Web content with this step-by-step guide to using JSP technology

Web developers and designers are bringing new life to the Web by using JavaServer Pages (JSP) to create and maintain dynamic content that leverages existing business systems. This powerful technology lets you change the overall Web page layout without altering the underlying content by separating the user interface from content generation. Following an innovative, task-based approach, this book will quickly show you how to develop these information-rich Web pages with JSP. As you progress through each chapter and complete the exercises, you gain the essential skills necessary for working with this technology. You also learn how to rapidly develop Web-based applications that are platform independent, and uncover the advantages of choosing JSP over other Web scripting languages such as ColdFusion and PHP.

With numerous real-world examples and expert advice, this book:
* Provides a concise and task-oriented introduction to JSP
* Helps you evaluate the suitability of JSP for your project
* Is a practical introduction to JSP's syntax and fundamental strengths
* Includes numerous working scripts, with information on how to adapt and extend them to meet individual needs

The companion Web site contains:
* All source code from the book
* Frequently asked questions, quizzes, and best practices
* Links to other JSP sites

About the Author

MADHUSHREE GANGULI has been a development executive with NIIT since 2000. Her work involves the design, development, testing, and implementation of Instructor Led Training (ILT) courses. Ganguli has authored several ILT courses on Adobe Frame Maker 6.0, Publisher 2000, and SQL Server 7.0. She has also developed courses on WML applications and Advanced Java. Ganguli has contributed snippets for various technical magazines and newspapers.

Product Details

• Paperback: 400 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1st edition (July 15, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471219746
• ISBN-13: 978-0471219743
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,064,628 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Web Tool, September 10, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Making Use of JSP (Paperback)

I was looking for a way to create Web pages on the fly from existing databases, and someone recommended JSP. This book got me off and running with JSP and helped me get done what I needed to do quickly and easily.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Easy to Read, September 10, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Making Use of JSP (Paperback)

The author style and step-by step approach make this book very accessible, even for someone who is new to the technology. This is a great book for getting started and getting your hands dirty with JSP.

2.0 out of 5 stars Bloated and replete with typos, January 21, 2005

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Adam R. (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Making Use of JSP (Paperback)

I was very disappointed by this book. Having "cut my teeth" in Web application development using ColdFusion, I bought this book to learn JSP. Although it seems that this book was written in a task-oriented fashion in order to explain the steps and appropriate division of labor to a person who is naive to Web application development, I find that this approach is ineffective. This book is overly explicit about simple concepts and insufficiently explicit about many complex concepts. Its treatment of beans and database connectivity are especially lacking... and these are arguably the two most complex (and important) areas of JSP development. And there were MANY typographical erros in the printed code; since I am comfortable programming in Java, I recognized these typos, but I pity the Java novice who can't figure out why the darn things won't compile. In addition, much of the Java code did not follow best practices (e.g., the author frequently initializes Strings to " " rather than an empty string or null). Because of the book's task-oriented organization and poor indexing, it is not highly useful as a reference either.

I did learn something from this book but only because I understood from my advance knowledge of Web programming with ColdFusion many of the principles that the author teaches in JSP. This allowed me to recognize the errors in the book and infer principles from the code that were not explicitly explained (which was made more difficult by the many errors in the code). If this was my first foray into Web programming, I think that I would have found this book highly frustrating and of little value.