Sams Teach Yourself JavaServer Pages in 21 Days [Paperback]

Steven E. Holzner (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0672324490 | ISBN-13: 978-0672324499 | Publication Date: October 4, 2002 | Edition: 1

Sams Teach Yourself JavaServer Pages in 21 Days offers a proven tutorial format to teach JSP in 21 example-driven lessons. This book is for Web publishing professionals migrating to JavaServer Pages for its ability to create dynamic, interactive Web sites and separate presentation from Java code running behind the scenes. The book starts by explaining the relationship between JSP and Java Servlets and the basics of JSP functions and features. You'll then learn how JSP handles data, interacts with Java components, tracks users, and more. Later chapters discuss debugging, working with databases, XSLT and XML, using the Struts framework from Apache, handling binary data like graphics, and deploying JSP applications. Each topic is illustrated with many working examples that the reader can understand and put to work immediately. Throughout the book the author provides pointers to upcoming developments in JSP 2, to ensure that you are prepared for changes in the new version.

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Sams Teach Yourself JavaServer Pages in 21 Days offers a proven tutorial format to teach JSP in 21 example-driven lessons. While many competing JSP books are aimed at Java professionals, this book addresses the needs of the growing number of Web publishing professionals migrating to JavaServer Pages for its ability to create dynamic, interactive Web sites and separate presentation from Java code running behind the scenes. The book starts by explaining the relationship between JSP and Java Servlets and the basics of JSP functions and features. Readers then learn how JSP handles data, interacts with Java components, tracks users, and more. Later chapters discuss debugging, working with databases, XSLT and XML, using the Struts framework from Apache, handling binary data like graphics, and deploying JSP applications. Each topic is illustrated with many working examples that the reader can understand and put to work immediately. Throughout the book the author provides pointers to upcoming developments in JSP 1.3, due in 2003, to ensure readers are prepared for changes in the new version.

About the Author

Steven Holzner is the author of more than 70 books on programming, and has been writing on Java topics ever since Java has been around. His books have sold more than 1.5 million copies and have been translated into 16 languages around the world. He has a Ph.D. from Cornell University, has been on the faculty of both Cornell and MIT, and is a former contributing editor to PC Magazine. He's long used JSP in commercial environments, and specializes in Web development.

Product Details

• Paperback: 720 pages
• Publisher: Sams; 1 edition (October 4, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0672324490
• ISBN-13: 978-0672324499
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,970,815 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Steven Holzner is an award-winning author who has written extensively on Ajax and JavaScript. With over 100 titles published, he's sold over a million copies of his books and been translated into 16 languages. As a former faculty member of MIT and Cornell, he teaches corporate seminars around the country.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book for beginners and intermediate, March 7, 2005

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RLR (UGA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sams Teach Yourself JavaServer Pages in 21 Days (Paperback)

This book does a great job at setting your environment for making jsp programs. You'll need tomcat, java development kit, text editor (textpad is great), and a whole bunch of setting up. This is one of the best books that guides you very clearly through those painstaking steps for beginners. I covered the first 4 chapters in several hours in one day and made a jsp application for a class assignment, and it was very easy to understand. It's targetted for beginners because it introduces you to programming concepts like loops, switches, conditions etc, java class compilation and execution, and java programming stuff. One of the easiest books to follow.
Having said that, if your looking for an indept treatment of jsp this book only has a few chapters dealing with more comples stuff. Having some programming language concepts is always useful, or else you may have to do some background reading if you don't know how to make a program to find the factorial of an int.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars BAD BOOK, November 30, 2004

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Christian Zambrano (Iowa, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sams Teach Yourself JavaServer Pages in 21 Days (Paperback)

This book from the beggining just throws concepts at you, assuming that you will understand what they are trying to say. Then go over so many things without a thorough explanation of the topic. It shows you code and then don't explain it. If you are a beginner don't even think about buying this book. I read up to hour 6 but I couldn't handle it anymore, there were so many questions unanswered.