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Summary: Very Good
Review: This book is very goo
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Summary: Excellent read!
Review: A book thats certainly well worth your while
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Summary: it'sgood
Review: i like it
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Summary: A good book for starters
Review: This is a good book for those familiar with Java & who want to initiate themselves into dynamic web publishing using servlets. Its comprehensive in its coverage of the basics. What it lacks in, is a slightly advanced discussion of the real multithreaded world, where multiple threads access shared servlet instances. The author could have discussed the topic of resource pooling & thread safety in greater detail. Otherwise, an excellent book!
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Summary: Covers all the main topics
Review: For the experienced Java Programmer, this book provides all the information required to write your own servlet-based application.Some people have complained that the examples don't compile (I wouldn't know because I didn't type them in), but the examples do illustrate very clearly the concepts being explained, and enable an experienced programmer to quickly write their own code using the examples as a basis. The chapters on session tracking, security, JDBC were good, as were the numerous performance enhancing tips littered throughout the book.
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Summary: The best bang for the buck
Review: I've had the book for several months now and it has, like all O'Reilly books, been amazingly useful. After having read the book, my time isn't wasted on dealing with the idiosyncrasies of the JSDK (since Jason Hunter has already explained everything to me) rather my time is spent writing better code. The book assumes that you are already comfortable with the Java Programming Language thus sticking to the subject at hand. The text couldn't be more clear making the book uncommonly informative throughout. As said in other reviews, it is concise, well-indexed and doesn't disappoint.
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Summary: No coverage of multi-threaded servelet model
Review: I was dissapointed that there was no mention about multi-threaded servlet model at all. Also, the chapter on Internationization has little to do with Java Servlets.
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Summary: Poorly written and examples that won't compile....
Review: I bought this book cheap, but now I understand why. After trying to compile the examples in the book I found myself frusterated. I'm fed up and wish I could return it. Get Karl Moss' book. Its excellent!
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Summary: Complete BS
Review: Programmers *don't* duplicate programs??? I don't know where this London reviewer learned to program, but here in the 'States, us Yanks have learned the *best* programmers are the *truest* plagarists. To borrow from Picasso, "good artists copy, great artists steal". If I can't *use* the examples in this book (as some reviewers have mentioned), then the book is as useful as an Apple III. Yet the chap from London and I agree on one thing: all of the information in this book was found on the Internet, and what wasn't there or here was in the Karl Moss book (example: dynamically building JAR files on client requests. Now that's *reusable*, *useful* code).
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Summary: A Well-Rounded Coverage of the Subject
Review: It's interesting to see that most of the negative reviews on this column are either completely unhelpful - or related to the fact that the sample code does not compile. More advanced programmers don't tend to simply duplicate programs from books, they tend to read the information provided by the writer, and write programs that do something useful. This book may not contain any information that isn't already on the Internet, but that can be said of almost any Java book, as Java is particularly well documented. I found this book to be informative, well-written, concise, well-indexed, and well-organised. It also taught me a few things that I hadn't expected to learn, and I appreciate that.
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