Beginning JSP 2: From Novice to Professional
After reading this book, you’ll be able to do a whole lot more. –Dirk Schreckmann, JavaRanch Sheriff and Journal Editor
Let Beginning JSP 2 be your guide as you begin using JSP. This comprehensive guide starts by steering you through your first JSP application. It reviews HTML, and provides you with a useful overview of JSP. You’ll then be ready to start learning one of the core techniques in JSP: pulling data from a database and working with that data.
When you’ve mastered this technique, you’ll be ready to branch out powerfully into other JSP topics: variables, scope, flow control, and code reuse for productive time management. Finally, the book shows you how you can use JSP with XML and gives you a taste of some advanced topics, including using Struts and the Model View Controller.
This book’s step-by-step examples explain the techniques behind the code. The authors include realistic scenarios wherever possible to build your knowledge and confidence in JSP. After reading this book, you’ll have the knowledge and skills to enter the web development and Java development industries. All you need to begin this journey is a basic understanding of HTML and Java.
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Beginning JSP 2 – not quite a set-by-step book,
I had bought this book to improve my knowledge of JSP – which is rather limited. I had expected, from the text on the back cover, this to be a comprehensive book on how to code JSPs (with lots of examples – which I like). In reality I was rather disappointed.
The first Chapter went well, how to install Tomcat, and the second wasn’t too bad (a review of HTML) but by the third chapter I started to notice a lack of clarity. It wasn’t always clear which text I should be typing in and which were simply given as an aside – which for a step-by-step guide is frustrating. The fourth chapter was far worse. This started of by saying that we would be using mySQL, but failed to give any indication of where to get the software from, how to install it or how to start the server (you need to start the server to follow the examples). And then a number of the example instructions, that were given in this chapter, did not work without modification. I was able to work round these problems and make progress. But as this wasn’t a core chapter (I read this book to learn how to use JSPs not mySQL) I had expected to go through it quickly.
Overall the content was very useful and I learnt a lot, but the book would benefit from being edited (again?) and a second edition.
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The directory structure described in 1st chapter doesn’t fit Tomcat’s directory structure. The text description is correct, but the screen shot is wrong. Also in 1st chapter, the JAR files that should be included in PATH variable also have the wrong name. This is very low-level mistakes.
The 2nd chapter reviews HTML. Well, it is rather confusing than helpful. Then in Chapter 4 the author talks about database and tries to explain Normalization. I’d rather the author skips on this topic because he/she seems just lack of ability to explain things in the clear way.
I bought this book to learn JSP, not to compose an errata for the author. I believe most readers don’t like to do that either. If you would like avoid unnecessary headache, look else where.
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