Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages, Vol. 1: Core Technologies, Second Edition

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Summary: Simple outstanding coverage of this exciting technology
Review: To anybody who wants to learn more about Servlets and JSP, this is the absolute standard reference, in my view. It's a pleasure to read, easy to understand, lots of examples and worth every dollar you invest. I did not find a book which covers Servlets and JSP better in detail.

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Summary: Great coverage of all that is JSP and Servlets!
Review: From start to finish a great book. I was very pleased with the coverage from the basics of describing the technology to very extensive code examples. Each topic was covered in exhaustive detail. I judge a technology book based on how easily a technical subject can be understood and how well the coding examples apply to help learn the concepts. This book rates 5 stars in both regards!

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Summary: Excellent Book
Review: This was the book we chose for our in-house training class, so our entire team of software engineers received a copy. Most were new to these particular technologies, but a few had a fairly good background in the subject. The unanimous opinion of the group was that the book is excellent. Not only is it well-written, but it has few, if any, mistakes. We've not found any typos, grammatical errors, syntactical or other types of code errors in this book. The content is extremely useful in a real-world context, and we have already begun putting the information from the book to use in our applications. This book was obviously written by someone who has worked extensively with these technologies.

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Summary: Great Reference
Review: I have used this book as a resource for a course I am taking. It has served as an excellent reference. Easy to find things. This book contains an incredible amount of information written in an easy to use logical format. Interspersed comics and humorous examples give it alot of "light relief".

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Summary: Java book of the year
Review: All examples run fine. Author responded to e-mails. I plagiarized his DBUtilities and ConnectionPool classes (including the "singleton" class suggested at the end) verbatim.

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Summary: The best book on Servlets/JSP seen so far.
Review: I was hunting all over the net for a book which could clearly explain in the best possible ways the concepts of Servlets/JSP's. Many articles were available but not very convincing ones. But this book by Marty Hall is really worthy of all praises. It was just the kind of book I was looking for. It explains the concepts in a very smooth way covering the required basics and taking the reader to advanced topic level. I could never have asked for a better book than this. It was like a "Stop here, Look no further" for information of Servlets/JSP. This is no doubt a "Must buy" at any given time. I look forward to more books like this and wish Marty Hall all success for his endeavours of writing future books.

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Summary: Entering the Warp Core of Java Servlet Technology
Review: This book is hot, very hot and well worth every single penny you may want to spend on it plus a whole hill of beans more. I'm currently the lead Java Servlet developer on a Sun Microsystems internal intranet site and amongst our development team this is THE book to use. We also recommend it to everyone who asks. So that's the sizzle, where's the sausage? In the last three months it's helped us out many times, when we've been between rocks and hard places, I've lost count. Amongst many other things it's provided us with a robust, flexible and top notch web security system, the ability to generate GIFs on the fly and the easy use of secure HTTP servlet and applet tunnelling (Ok, so I didn't REALLY need to write that applet calculator but this book is so much fun I couldn't help myself - gotta get out more). With a mixture of solid blocks of clear text to explain things and solid blocks of production-strength code to "develop" from (which always work first time when you "adapt" them), this book is a serious winner and should be top of anyone's list of "Java Servlet books I must buy". There's an awful lot packed into these 500 plus pages, way beyond the "Core" that the title suggests and IMHO this is clearly the best Java book Sun Microsystems press have ever produced (BTW I'm a contractor and not part of the Sun share-option scheme :-) Let's just hope that Marty can be persuaded to write a few more Java books beyond the Core to make the previously baffling world of the Java APIs seem a lot more human. If that was the point of this book then he has succeeded beyond all question. If only he would write one on Enterprise Java Beans as well, then I might just stand half a chance of surviving the rest of the Java journey. Top work! 8-)

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Summary: Best book on Servlet/JSP
Review: I just finished reading this book. I tried Sun tutorial and other book. But I could not grasp concepts.

This Book is awesome. It will explain Servlet and JSP concepts. Very Very Good examples. If you are new to Servlets/ JSP you got to start with this book. No comparision.

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Summary: The Book and Marty are really help
Review: Before I bought this book, I browsed couple servlet books in bookstores. The book he written, It's really good book. + He replyed to my question very clear and make me learn faster.

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Summary: Best combination of JSP & Servlet reference
Review: It's quite difficult to find a good book about servlets. Even more difficult when it comes to JSPs. This book covers both topics in an extremely practical and logical way. It gives solutions to real-world problems and many of the code samples can be used for your own application development. One of the strong points of this book is explaining the implications of various HTTP rechniques that can be used in combination to servlet programming. Tunelling is of extremely importance in overcoming the limitations of the firewalls. Overall I consider the best book for both newcomer/advanced JSP/Servlet programmer.