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Summary: Must have for anyone learning servlets, JSP
Review: The text is well written and understandable. It doesn't assume prior knowledge. The best part of the book is the examples, which are also available for free online.
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Summary: Masterpiece, but fast becoming a dinosaur..
Review: This book is a joy to read. The concepts are very nicely introduced and stays within your grip.However, JSP is growing faster than a speeding train, and the book is now collecting dust on my shelf since the topics are barely germane to the new versions of specs supported by Tomcat being put out there. It is time to upgrade this beautiful masterpiece of a book on this topic.
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Summary: Excellent book for both Servlets and Java coding in general
Review: As somebody who has been looking for a good book for learning Java, Servlets, and JSP, I have to say that this is far superior to many others that I've tried and gotten frustrated with. It's written in an easy-to-read, not-so-dry style that I really enjoy, and it's got plenty of great examples (which are a REQUIREMENT for me) that not only illustrate concepts, but are useful in their own right. And one thing that I totally appreciate is that Marty puts his email address right in the book, and is very responsive to issues or problems. I wish every computer book author would be like this. Five stars - highly recommended!!!
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Summary: Excellent starter book to servlets and JSP.
Review: The book was excellent. I'm using it to write a number of applications which I was planning on writting in PERL originally, but after learning how easy and powerful servlets are I would never go back. I especially liked the part that explained how to return back to the client proper error code so that it will ask to re-authenticate the user in a popup. I rely on centralized LDAP authentication with all of our netscape web servers. I wanted to use native server authentication rather then something I would have to write myself. Your examples showed me enough to accomplish this. If you write another edition of the book, I would be interested in seeing more neat tricks like that.
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Summary: A excellent book
Review: MartyHall's book "Core Servlet and JavaServerPages is a geat book. It explains a topic clearly and thoroughly. It also precise to concepts. It also features brief, but comprehensive. It makes a complex topic looks somple fo a read to be able to implement it. I bought this book a year ago. I always enjoy to find information I need. I hope all books to be written in such a way: brief, clear, and comprehensive. It saves a lot of reader's time. From Ruilin Yang
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Summary: Wonderful Shortcut
Review: I have tried some Servlets/JSP programs, this book gives me a lot of guidelines and tricks. Also, the book is easy for reader to locate the topic, the section explanation is brief and precise. Get it with you ASAP!!
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Summary: Highly profound and clear textbook. Wonderful examples
Review: I am one of the grateful readers of Mr Hall's books "Core Web Programming" and "Core Servlets and JSP". I learned Java and basic WEB techniques from first of them and modern dynamic WEB techniques from the second.
Both books share very clear and straightforward approach which drills down directly to important issues. I especially enjoyed running all the examples which are excellent. I think, examples provides for the most systematic approach for learning new software technologies.
Mr Hall's books are so vivid and lucid, that I had that wonderful feeling that I am completely comfortable with material, even so I realize that acquiring real life experience will still take much more efforts.
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Summary: One of the best books I've read on any subject!
Review: This is a very comprehensive book covering everything from a basic introduction to servlets and JSP to advanced concepts. The author explains things clearly and provides excellent examples. Anyone who needs to learn about servlets and JSP would benefit from reading this book. This is the first book I've purchased by Marty Hall but it wont be the last.
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Summary: The best concise source of documentation on Servlet and JSP
Review: This book is a programmer's tutorial on Servlet programming. The author covers JSP and lightly touches on topics like JDBC and the HTTP protocol. The author teaches by walking through several fully working well documented code samples. The book (and Servlet programming in general) does not require the coder to be as Java savvy as say a book on Swing, EJB, or CORBA. I think any competent C++ programmer could pick up this code and figure out servlet programming as well. The JDBC chapters are brief but sufficient enough to get you connected to a database. This book even gives you a run down of configuring Tomcat. I didn't use Tomcat personally, so I don't know how accurate it is. However, I found the step by step process useful when trying to get servlets running under JRun and WebLogic.
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Summary: Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages (JSP)
Review: This is a great book that will take you from introductory servlet programming to more complicated issues. I picked up the book as recommended to me by a co-worker and now I can't be without it. It spans servlets, beans, jsps, connection pooling as well as many things that I haven't delved into yet. Great explanation and code examples are everywhere! Thanks Marty for a great book and making my job that much easier.
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