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Summary: Excellent Book for Servlet-Babies
Review: The author reveals the benefits of servlets over other server side technologies such as CGI, ASP, PHP, etc. This gives the Servlet-Baby an immediate warm and fuzzy feeling. The added details for Tomcat are also invaluable, (I find the jakarta documentation scanty and too fragmented for servlet babies)... One reviewer says he talks to you, and I agree whole-heartedly... easy reading, examples and tips throughout, humor, technical truth, excellent applications, servlets, jsp, jdbc, applets as front-ends, and a web site with even more goodies makes this the best Servlet-Baby book on the shelf.
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Summary: Your search for a JSP book ends here.
Review: This is such a great book, that its difficult to speak highly enough of it. Not only is it a great book for the subject area that it covers - it also should be used as a textbook for other editors, writers and publishing houses on how to put together a good technology book. The main advantages are that it excludes all superfluous backgruond/marketing lingo. This means that the book is useful and relevant from the first page - rather than the 3rd chapter. This book is rather let down by bad typography and formatting. It could have been made to look easier on the eye - giving it the initial mpression of a dense techie book. Don't let that put you off, persevere - and you will find the content loaded with insights, pointers to be aware about, and a natural flair for good teaching.
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Summary: The Author speaks to you!
Review: This Java book is not one of those dead, dull and boring computer programmming books that you have to use in college. He has a way with his pen that brings the java code to life! I think this book is the way to go with servlets and jsp programming. I would recommend this book other many others I've seen out there. This book you won't just read you'll Enjoy it!
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Summary: Great book to learn Servlets and JSP
Review: I found this book to be one of the best books on Servlets and JSP. Marty does a great job in the book and also on the web site. the web site has some updated information that was not in the book but the book is still a very good book
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Summary: Great Book
Review: I was able to go from to zero to "up-to-speed" on servlet programing with this book. Well written. Never had any servlet programming experience before. You will get your value for this book, and you will UNDERSTAND what the servlet is doing. Pretty cool.
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Summary: If you're novice or intermediat ,this is the book for you
Review: In my idea,the book has well organized tell you step by step to get more understanding about Servlets and JSP.But as many other said,it has no in depth detail about some topic.Anyway I think it's not a really bad thing in this book.For example you can see there're a lot of JavaBean books each minimum 500 pages available for you if you really want to know more. I think ,this book like "overview of server-side Java" If you're already expert,I think it's not worth for you.But for novice like me,this book is really Excellence!
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Summary: Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages by Marty Hall
Review: If you're new to servers and have some Java background this is an excellent book. Unlike other servlet books, it doesn't have the annoying trait of focusing on Java Web Server. Early and maddening obstacles of, where to place which files in which directories are covered in first 2 excellent chapters, laying out the basics of Installation/Setup for Tomcat, JSWDK and JWS. The book takes you through some wide-ranging, related topics, only assuming prior low level knowledge to build you up to handle quite reasonably advanced examples, throwing in some one-liners that suddenly throw light on something you've been struggling with in other servlet/jsp texts. A major feature is the use of complete examples within chapters, well illustrated, so if you have to get up to speed quickly and dipping into specific chapters you can pick up and follow what's going on, unlike some texts which painfully using one/two large examples throughout. It's the best servlets/jsp text I've come across and I've bought several, it's practical and hands-on.
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Summary: Not my style.
Review: He does a good job of helping you get a server up and running, but after that it was a big disappointment. I really wish I had chosen a different book. I'm sorry to say this, but it doesn't seem that he is especially good at this or especially interested, more like Sun tapped him on the shoulder and said it's your turn to write a book.Sun presents a 5 year old Microsoft idea (ASP) as a new and original Sun idea, only hopefully you haven't had much exposure to ASP because you'll notice how much more complicated servlets and JSP are than ASP ever was. Back to Marty's contributions to this book. There are lots of useless examples, as someone else mentioned. He starts out feeding you little "utilities" that he has created for himself, and you don't have much choice but to use them because he keeps using them in subsequent programs. This isn't my style. I am not going to be using these utilities. I don't want to be that fragmented. He takes CGI, which can be explained in a couple paragraphs, and which many of us are probably already familiar with, and drags out every detail right there in the middle of the explanation - stuff that you would put into an Appendix or something. The examples are so inelegant you think you're back doing Perl again! I'm not TOTALLY turned off to servlets and JSP yet, but this book didn't do much for my enthusiasm.
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Summary: Fabulous
Review: I've read the first 2 chapters of the book, though some might argue that it's too early to judge, i simply can't agree more to most of the reviewers for this book: simply a good book to have if you wanna do serious jsp and servlet programming. In fact, I just dropped an email to the author regarding some problems that i don't understand, and amazingly, i got an reply within 10 minutes, absolutely fantastic after-sales service:)
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Summary: Great book
Review: This book is great. I've learned a lot of new concepts from it.
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