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Summary: Great for beginners
Review: The book does a good job of covering the main aspects of Using Java servlets, JSP, and EJBs, but without in-depth detail.Its well organized and the chapters flow well together. This makes it a nice learning tool, but not necessarily a good reference. If you know Java and want to learn about using servlets, JSP, and EJBs, this is a good book to work with. If you are already programming with servlets, JSP, or EJBs, then I would recommend Marty Hall's books as they are more in-depth and are organized in a "quick find" method. Its a great book and I highly recommend it for anyone who wants to begin developing web apps using Java.
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: The book does a pretty good job of explaining JSPs and Servlets. The author's explanations on these topics are simple and easy to understand. However, I bought the book primarily to learn about EJBs. The book claims to adhere to EJB 2.0 standards. However, when I copied the sample CMP Entity Bean code from the CD and deployed it in JBoss, I got error messages saying the code wasn't up to specification. I went out to Sun's website and confirmed that the examples in the book and on the CD are not EJB 2.0 compliant! I would have also liked a little more information about administering JBoss. The book doesn't really cover how to deal with basic problems that may arise from deploying your servlet/JSP/EJB. Considering I had a lot of problems using the examples from this book, some basic troubleshooting would have been helpful. I recommend avoiding this book. It is good at covering the very basics, but there are other books which cover the subject matter more accurately without sacrificing clarity.
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Summary: Good for learning the specs and apis.
Review: The main reason I got this book is because it comes with the JBoss app server on the CD, and the EJB examples in the book are deployed using JBoss. However, It does not discuss much JBoss specific information. For example, it does not explain how to map an Entity EJB to a database table. The only thing the book explains is that the default JBoss behavior is to create a table on the fly based on the Entity Bean. In many software development projects, EJBs are used to map to already existing tables, therefore this default behavior is not acceptable in this situation. JBoss is a great open source application server, however, documentation is lacking. After some investigation I found out how to do what I needed, but it would have been nice to have that information readily available in the book. I looked for some JBoss specific books, but it seems that the ones that are available out there focus on administering JBoss, rather than how to develop and deploy applications using it. In short, to learn the standard technologies used for web development, this book will fit the bill, however, it leaves some details out in the air, to be fair to the author, these details tend to be app server specific, but there isn't even a mention of this in the book.
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Summary: Not as good as everybody seems to think
Review: This book attempts to cover a wide range of topics with varying degrees of success. The book could have been a lot better had the author chosen fewer topics and provided more detail. There were a couple of times, where I was very dissapointed with the level of detail, for example, pages and pages of JavaScript, but an odd sentence on database connection pooling. The author also does strange things. He sets out to use MySQL in the book and then goes on to use MS Access for a case study (those queries could have been written to work with MySQL -IMHO) - I'm also pretty sure that the Linux users out there also loved this one! Through out the book I kept on getting the feeling that things were done only half measure. A prime example is the file download bean that gets provided with the book. The bean works, but the implementation is far from perfect, e.g if a bigger file exists, then it overwrites only the first part of the file, leaving the rest of the content - this is plain irrating with text files, but with binary files, well... (I ended up just writing my own). That pretty much sums up the book. If you are a just starting out with JSP/Servlets then this book is probably an OK place to start, but there a better books out there - have a look at the books that Marty Hall wrote - I've got an old version, but time and again I find my answers in his book, not this one.
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Summary: A must have for all serious web devlopers
Review: This book has exceeded all my expectations by far in underscoring important real-life developer¡¯s problems and solutions. It includes many solutions and behind the scene explanation of many servlet/JSP technologies that are not found any where else. I am also impressed by the ease of learning of an almost complete array of servlet/JSP technologies as it pertains to web development. Having read many books available in JSP technologies, this book is a must have for all serious web developers who wish to apply JSP technologies daily.
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Summary: Programmer/Analyst
Review: This book is a must-have for those who want to learn to program for the web with Java. This is one of the best book I ever bought. Examples are well designed and explained. I particularly
like the fact that the author gives step-by-step instructions on
how to reproduce the examples.
If you're new to Java, buy this book first. Your money is worth
three times.
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Summary: Outstanding book for first time servlet/JSP developers
Review: This book is outstanding because it describes exactly how servlets and JSPs work. No information is held back, and no assumptions are made regarding previous servlet/JSP knowledge. This is why I highly recommend this book to new servlet/JSP developers. (I have tried others, and this one has been the best investment.) There are quite a few typos in the book, which can be frustrating when trying to get your first servlets to run. However, the book is so clear and thorough in its explanations that it allows the reader to easily find and correct these errors. This is THE book to buy if you are developing J2EE web applications.
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Summary: Must read fo Java beginner
Review: This book is well explained step by step. You do not need deep knowledge of web programming or Java to start reading this book. Examples are excelent and most off all, it covers all Java's web programming technologies in one book!
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Summary: The best Java book I have ever read
Review: This books explains every concept from beginning to end. The examples are clear and consice. I felt like I had strong grasp of each concept at the end of each chapter. For me, the book is "paced" perfectly. So many technical books either gloss over material or make the (rediculous) assumption that you already understand the material you are reading! The tech press has a long way to go. It should take some lessons from this book. I previously purchased the Sun J2EE Tutorial. The section on Enterprise beans was very good, but the section on Servlets and JSPs was beyond horrible. It was one that was written as if I already knew how to program Servlets and JSPs (which makes no sense since the book is a TUTORIAL). They only spent 3 (short) chapters on Servelts and JSP. I couldn't figure out what the problem was - and then I realized different authors wrote the two sections. Beware! I also purchase another book (the exact name escapes me) but it involved building web applications with SQL and Tomcat. It was pretty good but I ran into some major problems with the example (it was one of those that continue through the entire book - so if it doesn't work on page 20, you're up a creek). Anyway - there was no errata on the web site even though the book said to "check the erratta for errors"!! so I returned it. Anyway...This book is outstanding. Buy it if you want to learn Servlets and JSP, etc.
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Summary: Bible for Java web developers
Review: This comprehensive volume covers Java Servlets, JSP and Enterprise Java Beans technology. Style of presentation is lucid and equips the readers to develop a full fledge e-commerce appplication from scratch. Advanced topics like security configuration,caching, file upload are explained in detail with suitable real world examples which are rarely found in similar books. Instead of commercial servers, examples are based on free open source server (Tomcat and JBoss) which makes this book all the more interesting for students and developers alike. This volume is highly recommended for beginners and well as advanced web developers.
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