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Summary: THIS BOOK SUCKS!!!
Review: Begining Servlets 101, JRUN, SUN's JVM, some JDBC, too. But where are the real servlets issues such as session tracking, cookie, security, digital certificates etc...etc.. I have not had any practical use for the book since I bought it. Everytime I turn to it for some answers I end up with nothing. So it's now a door stopper. The book SUCKs! You'd be a 1000 times better off getting Jason Hunt's book on Java Servlets Programming -- that is the best by far.
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Summary: Not up to the mark
Review: Could be a lot better Very few examples and most of them similar to Javasofts tutorial Not worth the money Quarter of the book is API reference Couple of chapters are just advertisements of JRun No readme provided for executing indevidual examples Book writen in haste
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Summary: OK OK
Review: I am a Microsoft Certified VB programmer, trained in C as my first language, who is trying to crossover to Java. The whole notion of servlets and what they can do for you as compared to MTS solutions, is incredible. So for me, this book was an excellent first book. I found the explanations to be clear, though not everything I tried "worked" as it was supposed to. Might have been user error; I don't know. I found it very difficult to get the examples to run by importing into JBuilder2, which is my IDE. Required a good deal of tweaking. But once I did, the examples really helped. As everyone but me probably knows before buying this book, there are equally good examples available with the free JDK, and with JavaWebserver free demo. Whatever, I found the book very useful.
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Summary: Shallow coverage of servlets, may be of use for beginners
Review: I flicked through this title in the bookshop, while looking for some good servlet titles. The coverage of this book is pretty shallow - for example their only mention of cookies is an API listing. Most servlet books cover cookies and session management, as well as more advanced (but related) servlet topics. I'd highly recommend "Inside Servlets : Server-Side Programming for the Java Platform" by Dustin R. Callaway instead.
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Summary: Examples actually work
Review: I tried this book after getting thoroughly frustrated with the O'Reilly Servlet book, that seems to be getting unwarrented good reviews. I read both books, and as a Java newbie I was only able to learn somthing from the Java Masters book. The experienced Java Programmers around me found the O'Reilly book to be insightful, however they only read it they didnt try it, I tried this book and refused to move on until I could get it to work, I didnt not until I read this book and applied the code fixes from this book and everything worked as predicted. However I had one problem with this book, it guides you through the early chapters pointing out everything you need to know, however as you move into more complicated applications, explanations became short and less cohesive. Overall I thought the book was very good especially for beginners.
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Summary: I hate this useless book.
Review: I truely dislike this book. I've been programming for many years, and programming in java for the past year or so. I love servlets, but i hate this book. apart from being absolutely useless, it's also very expensive. I have not found it useful to solve any real problems. a good bet for someone who wants to learn how to write servlets would be to get the Servlet Tutorial from Javasoft, and go from there.
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Summary: way too basic to be of any use
Review: i was horribly disappointed! i should have known that a book from the "Java Masters" series wouldn't be of any value! i knew i should have waited for Java Servlet Programming from O'Reilly!
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Summary: Looking for learn servlets ??? Look no more
Review: If you are looking to learn how to program java servlets this box will give you a great start. This book had very few examples.
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Summary: Good Book For understanding step by step Servlets Prog.
Review: It is clearly explained what are different types of formats in which data can be submitted over Internet and also it clearly explains step by step how to setup the JRun Server for running Servlets. Some part of setting up Java Web Server is also touched.
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Summary: First serious book on Servlets but not comprehensive.
Review: It is nice to have this book to get acquainted with the servlets. What is great about the book is that it covers HTTP tunneling, which is not even mentioned in most of the Java networking books. But all the topics are touched very shollowly. No information about security, performance issues, or nothing on session tracking or cookies.
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