Professional JSP Tag Libraries [Illustrated] [Paperback]

Simon Brown (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 2002

JSP Tag Libraries is an extension to Java Server Pages, the java API for web development, that allows a cleaner separation of logic and presentation. This promotes genuine reusability and improves the scope and power of JSP.

JSP Tag Libraries teaches you how to create usable, maintainable, and flexible tags. We will teach you good practices, and the design implications of tags, that will enable you to maximise the reusability of your code. This book includes many useful code examples that illustrate the points being made. With the prevalence of material on using of jsp tags, we will not concentrate in detail on using 3rd party tags, but rather aim to take you from writing script-like JSP based applications to creating genuinely object oriented web applications.

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From the Publisher

The book is for any web developer who wishes to create powerful and maintainable JSP applications. You will need to know the basics of JSP in order to follow the material: basic knowledge of sessions, the use of JavaBeans in pages, and some experience with writing JSPs is assumed in the text. This book builds on Beginning JSP Web Development and Professional JSP 2nd Editions by WROX Press.

About the Author

Based in London, Simon Brown is a Technical Architect with the Concise Group Ltd and has over 4 years experience of Java and related technologies. He has acted as technical lead and mentor to others in addition to writing and delivering training material. Outside of work he has spoken at several Java events including JavaOne, and has been published in JavaWorld.

Simon graduated from the University of Reading in 1996 with a First class BSc (hons) degree in Computer Science, and is now also a Sun Certified Enterprise Architect for J2EE, and a Certified Developer for the Java 2 Platform.

Product Details

• Paperback: 500 pages
• Publisher: Peer Information; 1st edition (April 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1861006217
• ISBN-13: 978-1861006219
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 7.2 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,915,701 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Content, May 16, 2002

By 

Cray Walken (Philadelphia, PA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Professional JSP Tag Libraries (Paperback)

Professional JSP Tag Libraries has great, effective content that Web programmers will appreciate.

It would have received 5 stars, except for the fact that there are technical errors. Each one isn't major, but it does affect the text's consistency and fluidity. For example, the diagram on page 41 that reveals the Web Archive File Structure misspells a directory name where the tag library descriptors are placed.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A good reference book for JSP tags and struts, April 23, 2003

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Ravichandran M. Kaushika "Ravi." (Dallas, TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Professional JSP Tag Libraries (Paperback)

Title: Professional JSP Tag Libraries
Author: Simon Brown
Publisher: WROX publisher Ltd.
ISBN: 1 861006 217

Reviewer Name: Ravi Mahalingam
Review Date 23 Apr 2003.

Overall Value of the book: 4
Instructional value of the book: 4
Reference value of the book: 5

Like every WROX, this book covers different aspects of tag libraries
of JSP (custom and regular) in a detailed fashion. The author Mr. Brown
has done a good job to explain the concepts of tag libraries.

the book has useful code snippets that can be used for real
world problems. the book also provides screen prints of the
actual output making it easier for the readers to find out the
result of the code.

THE author has explained how STRUTS work and has explained
it in great detail.

overall, this book is a good reference and will find a place in
my office shelf. we are in the process of developing a jsp
based user application which uses STRUTS.