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Summary: Outstanding for anyone using JSP
Review: Turner has put together a book that is outstanding either as a book to learn from, or as a reference you'll use throughout a project.Turner is obviously a seasoned developer who's actually built and deployed production applications. This book is perfect for anyone trying to either learn JSP technologies or trying to build an application that's going to be put into production. This book - though focusing on JSP technology and MySQL - approaches the project as a whole and gives you valuable knowledge and sample code for a number of areas. Other books seem to provide not much more than simple examples that won't translate to real world situations. Any number of different sections could save enough time to justify buying this book. For example: - Choosing the correct design approach up front in order to many hours later in the project
- Integrating the application with third-party software or on-line services such as credit card processors
- Integrating an LDAP directory to the JSP container
- Interfacing to EJBs from within JSP
- Managing the build and deployment process
- Understanding and incorporating the Struts framework into a project. Just the sections on setup and configuration of Tomcat, JBoss and MySQL could save someone hours. There's nothing worse than being under the gun to show results on a project and getting stuck configuring and integrating several packages (such as Tomcat, Apache, MySQL, etc.) The author has figured out how it's done and documented it all well. This is a great book that I highly recommend for anyone either interested in learning the technology or who is or may be working on a project using JSP.
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