Beginning JSP, JSF and Tomcat Web Development: From Novice to Professional
As the majority of Java developers are only Web-tier developers; Java technologies like JavaServer Pages (JSP), JavaServer Faces (JSF), and Apache Tomcat are mainly applicable and relevant to their needs.
Beginning JSP, JSF and Tomcat: From Novice to Professional is the first and maybe even only beginning level book of its kind combining the naturally complimentary JSP, JSF and Tomcat Web technologies into one consolidated treatment for developers focusing on just Java Web application development and deployment.
This book is examples-driven using a practical, real-work e-commerce case study and scenario throughout book.
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Good start at using technologies,
Okay, I haven’t touched JavaServer Pages in some time and this book got me back up to speed pretty quickly. Adding in JSF was easy, which I hadn’t used before. It does start a little too basic for my needs and doesn’t go quite as deep as I’d like, but overall will have you using JSP and JSF with MySQL within Tomcat pretty quickly. The title is Beginning JSP…, so not going as deep as I’d like is not the book’s problem, but more now its time for me to go to the next level and probably look into one of the Pro books.
One complaint with the book is the excessive appendices, almost half. Maybe it is just me, but I think eight pages to specify HTML characters and another 40 pages for an HTML reference seems excessive for the book’s topic. With Beginning in the title, I was thinking more beginning JSP and JSF, not beginning HTML.
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|Way to little JSF,
This book is far to basic and superficial in its treatment of Java Server Faces than anticipated.
There are far too many chapters on how to set up the supporting services and far to little on Java Server Faces. With 8 chapters and 8 appendixes there is only 1 chapter and one appendix on JSF. The other chapters deal with an overview of Web Pages in General, an overview of JSPs, an overview of setting up MySQL (only for a Windows platform), an overview of setting up Tomcat 6 (again only for the Windows Platform) and the underlying structure of Tomcat 6, a superficial discussion of XML technologies such as XPath and XSLT (there are whole BOOKS written on this), a superficial discussion of CSS and HTML and an appendix on the Eclipse platform (ignoring NetBeans or other valid IDE’s).
If one is rusty on some of the technologies, it is a great review. But a person new to JSP’s and Java Web technology would be very quick to get lost. This does not take you from Novice to Professional. It a surface scratch of a handful of the basic technologies and leaves one wanting. Nowhere near a Professional developer.
On the plus side, if one IS rusty, the discussion of JSP’s is a very quick and down and dirty get one back up to speed on Intrinsic Objects, JSP directives JSTL and EL and a slam, bang, thank you mam’ on custom tag libraries.
It would do better to get Pro JSP 2, Fourth Edition (Expert’s Voice in Java) or a book specifically on JSF if you want to learn JSF.
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