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Summary: Great Update to the First Edition!
Review: This book is well put together, and is a good reference for Servlets and JSPs. The first edition was a bit outdated and irrelevant, so this book is much appreciated. The source code is still not up on the publisher'ssite... .
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Summary: Easy read, but not in depth
Review: This book jumps right into setting up re-usable Servlet components before a novice would even have a chance to understand the code. Repitition would have been a better learning tool, but the re-usable Servlet components distract from the learning and make it more difficult.Overall, the book could have been deeper and more illuminating for the experienced Servlet developer. All in all not a bad book for novices if you skip the re-usable Servlets. Not recommended as a good long term reference.
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Summary: Easy read, but not in depth
Review: This book jumps right into setting up re-usable Servlet components before a novice would even have a chance to understand the code. Repitition would have been a better learning tool, but the re-usable Servlet components distract from the learning and make it more difficult. Overall, the book could have been deeper and more illuminating for the experienced Servlet developer. All in all not a bad book for novices if you skip the re-usable Servlets. Not recommended as a good long term reference.
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Summary: very comprehensive !!
Review: this book provides both beginner's and advanced information for developing Java Servlets. it includes useful examples like connecting servlets & applets, servlets and JDBC etc.
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Summary: No Nonsense Practical Guide for the Servlet Developer
Review: This book provides clear-cut, practical examples that successively build up to the prototypical ecommerce application - - the web shopping cart. The author does rely on a certain amount of familarity w/ OO concepts but avoids much of the techno jargon found in other texts. A required read for those of us who need real-world examples/explanations for building ecommerce web sites w/ Java technologies
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Summary: Good Primer
Review: This is a concise book introducing servlet. It's an easy read too. Anyone with decent knowledge of Java should be able to pick it up without any difficulties. There is only one thing that disappoints me. It only covers a small subset of the API.
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Summary: It's the best Book for learning Java Servlets!
Review: This is a great book for those new to servlets. I had no servlet experience! After I read it, I could create my own servlets quickly (http, forms, jdbc, rmi and others servlets applications). The samples are easy for beginners to follow and got me writing and running servlets by myself. I recommend it to those new to Java Servlets.
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Summary: Very good but careless
Review: This is a very good book, in my opinion, covering a very important technology. But there are many odd errors which slow down one's ability to make it through the book. See the other reservations and qualifications in other reviews. They are true. For example, you will look in vain I think to find out the Web Site for the book. I don't even remember how I finally determined how to download the source code, but it was only after I decided to have another go at the book. A sample error is in the NewCustomerServlet.html file of Chapter 4. If you didn't download the source code you wouldn't even have this file. But as supplied the file utilizes the POST method, which takes you directly to the "Account Created" screen. After carefully reading the code for the NewCustomerServlet I realized that the Servlet had to be invoked first with a GET method inorder to first obtain the Customer Account form. This simple change to the html file made it work as advertised but until I discovered what was wrong I felt like the guy in the T.V. ad when he was told "It's late, and you haven't called. Little missy, go to your room."
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Summary: Very good but careless
Review: This is a very good book, in my opinion, covering a very important technology. But there are many odd errors which slow down one's ability to make it through the book. See the other reservations and qualifications in other reviews. They are true. For example, you will look in vain I think to find out the Web Site for the book. I don't even remember how I finally determined how to download the source code, but it was only after I decided to have another go at the book. A sample error is in the NewCustomerServlet.html file of Chapter 4. If you didn't download the source code you wouldn't even have this file. But as supplied the file utilizes the POST method, which takes you directly to the "Account Created" screen. After carefully reading the code for the NewCustomerServlet I realized that the Servlet had to be invoked first with a GET method inorder to first obtain the Customer Account form. This simple change to the html file made it work as advertised but until I discovered what was wrong I felt like the guy in the T.V. ad when he was told "It's late, and you haven't called. Little missy, go to your room."
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Summary: the best servlet book so far
Review: This is the definative work on Java Servlets, that is up to date the examples are non-trival but not so complex that they cloud the issue at hand, which is learning the Servlet API. Very practical example problems and solutions.
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