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Summary: Complete!
Review: Book is excellet, packed with useful examples and appendixes, indeed a COMPLETE REFERENCE to JSP.
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Summary: Comprehensive
Review: Found it better than most other JSP books. I wish author had covered JSP/XML little bit more but I would still give it a 5 rating.
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Summary: detailed, trustworthy, well written: superb
Review: I had previous edition and bought this one too. Previous one proved for me to be absolutely invaluable for understanding of technicalities of jsp pages and underlying mechanics of jsp and servlets. Because of many changes between last and current releases of jsp and servlet technologies two editions of the book are different but format, luckily, did not change: author adheres to concept of giving concise but clear and very friendly explanations. Despite of confines of single book, he does not short cut on good design for his examples therefore making them especially valuable.
It is classic approach to jsp; approach that is not cluttered by hastily explained now-fashionable frameworks like Struts. It gives you foundation and knowledge for making your own framework.
I would highly recommend this book to anybody interested in java-based web development. I, myself, am using Struts framework for my current project but the books by Phil Hanna are giving me special power named solid knowledge of theory and concepts that you cannot find in books specialized on one particular topic like EL, Struts etc.
Overall, I am very grateful to Phil Hanna, because he, obviously, stays focused on his task of producing REFERENCE that is needed and gets referenced all the time in order to produce your own unique recipes.
I am sure that the author can write a lot of other books on web technologies that are just mine field for unaware developers (faithfully yours). I would buy those books.
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Summary: This book is SUPERB!
Review: I'm currently an Internet Software Engineer, using primarily Servlets and EJB technologies, and I was hoping to find a book that could give me a good reason to consider using JSPs. THIS IS THE BOOK. I now completely understand the purpose of JSPs, and where they fit into the Java Architecture. You will too, once you read this book.Phil Hanna has compiled a superbly organized and useful book. He builds on concepts logically, and provides awesome examples to help the info sink in. (I can't over-emphasize the usefulness of the examples in this book!) The examples of using JSP Tag Extensions are particularly wonderful. This is perhaps the most confusing and powerful part of JSPs, and Mr. Hanna makes it SO much easier to understand. If you want to learn JSPs and add them to your arsenal of programming wizardry, look no further! I wish that all of the technical books in my library were written this well.
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Summary: Just great
Review: I'm usually not a big fan of the osborne series, but once in a while, they get it right. This book is indeed complete. The only reference you will need.
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Summary: Just great
Review: I'm usually not a big fan of the osborne series, but once in a while, they get it right. This book is indeed complete. The only reference you will need.
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Summary: Covers a lot
Review: Lots of examples, wide spectrum, easy to read. Money very well spent.
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Summary: really COMPLETE reference
Review: This book is awesome. Unlike some other books of this series the book by Phil Hanna is really "the COMPLETE reference..". It covers all the aspects of JSP technology. This is practically the only book you need on the subject.
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Summary: Complete reference to what?
Review: This book is terrible. The Complete Reference to JSP? If I wanted a book to explain the HTTP protocol, HTML forms and other non JSP topics I would have purchased another book. The examples are simplistic... Too simplistic.
If your seriously trying to learn JSP find another more advanced book with real examples.
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Summary: Excellent book on JSP
Review: This is an excellent book on JSP. Covers almost all aspects. The biggest thing I liked about the book is the simplicity of examples to explain the concepts, particularly the case study on Model View Controller. I would give full rating to this book.
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