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Beginning JavaServer Pages
by Vivek Chopra, Jon Eaves, Rupert Jones, Sing Li, John T. Bell
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Wrox (2005-02-18)
ISBN: 076457485X
EAN: 9780764574856
Dewey Decimal #: 006.76
Binding/Media: Paperback - 1296 pages
Edition: 1
SKU: 102009-1598
Condition: New
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
- JSP is one of the core technologies for server-side Java applications and the 2.0 release, which this book covers in detail, makes JSP an even more powerful tool
- Walks Java programmers and Web developers through JSP fundamentals, including JSP syntax and directives, JSP Expression Language, JSP Tag libraries, JSTL, and techniques for testing and debugging
- Shows how to use JSP in real-world Web applications along with open source frameworks such as Struts, WebWork, and Turbine, software design methodologies, and developer tools like Ant, jUnit, and CVS, as well as popular IDEs (integrated development environmnents)
- Each chapter has an exercise section with solutions on the companion Web site
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Customer Reviews
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Truly for professionals by professionals, but excellent for students as well
Rating  (5)
Date: 2010-03-02
This book is not a click-here teach yourself book. IT professionals know that learning a new area of technology takes effort on their part and requires that they apply prior knowledge to gain new knowledge. At the pro level, we don't spoon-feed you! So yes, you will have to dig into the book's code samples and experiment with them. Having said that, however, this book does a great job of explaining its code samples line by line. As noted by other reviewers, the depth of this book exceeds most other books on JSP. IT professionals know and love WROX as one of the very best publishers of books for professionals.
I have used this book to teach JSP at university level multiple times. The student who is willing to roll up his/her sleeves and dig in soon realizes that this is one of the few books that will be kept once the degree is earned. This book allows me to cover past and present JSP methodologies. Learning past methodologies is critical, as you will find millions of lines of past approach code still in use in the real world, and may even need to convert some of it. My students get hired when they finish this course because of this.
Every time I teach JSP, I look for a new textbook or professional book to replace this book. So far, I have not found anything that comes close to the breadth and depth of this book. I'll be using this book again soon.
JSP is not a simple technology, but it is a powerful one consisting of many approaches and supporting many add-on technologies. You MUST be solid in your knowledge of Java and object-oriented programming. If you are not, you are not ready for JSP, period, no matter which book you use.
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Beginners book, it is NOT
Rating  (2)
Date: 2009-02-13
I bought this book expecting that it would be a beginners book, in that it would start you off with some basics and move on from there. I also expected that due to to its size and content, it would be an adequate reference when I progressed beyond the basics. I expected this to be a fairly "easy read" since I have substantial backgroud programming in ASP. Unfortunately, the book is fairly disorganized and cotains a fair amount of technical rambling. Definitely more confusing more than educational.
In essence, I consider this more of a reference manual than the learning book that I had hoped for and I will be buying another beginners book.
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very disappointing
Rating (2)
Date: 2007-12-18
3 out of 4 customers found this reveiw helpful
The word "Beginning" in the title is optimistic at best. I would not recommend this book for someone new to JSP. I've made it through 14 chapters, and now I'm going to drop this one and find something else. The last several chapters have been extremely frustrating. Too many examples don't work, and many things are not well explained. I've had to find other sources such as java.sun.com to find good explanations for things that are quickly passed over in this book. And I'm a certified J2SE programmer, so I'm not exactly a beginner.
The only IDE that has been mentioned so far is NetBeans 3.6. That's hopelessly out of date. The order of the chapters doesn't even make sense. An exercise in chapter 5 wants you to create and deploy an application, but nothing is mentioned about deployment until chapter 16!
And forget about asking questions on the P2P forums at the wrox website. They are effectively abandoned.
Overall, way too much reading for poor explanations, and poor exercises. You can find something better.
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Excelent
Rating (5)
Date: 2007-03-24
0 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
The book is extremly good, it explain everything about JSP and other new technologies, i really recomend it
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Not the best
Rating (2)
Date: 2005-08-01
6 out of 9 customers found this reveiw helpful
I did learn a lot about JSP from this book. I learned how it works and the history of it. I did not, however, learn how to write JSP. This book touts hand-ons but their idea of hands-on is pasting several pages of code in the book and telling you to write it verbatim in your code. It goes over some good tools (such as Ant) but never mentions an IDE or what the best way to go about starting a project is. For the most part it moved very slowly and repeated its self a lot. The book is about twice as long as it needs to be. I do feel like I learned from this book but overall I don't think it was worth my time.
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