Java Servlets (Enterprise Computing)

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Summary: Great Book on Servlets and on HTTP
Review: This is a great book to learn everything about servlets and more. In addition to its more than adequate coverage of servlets, it also discusses esoteric areas like HTTP tunneling and Connection Pool management in depth. These are areas which though not written by run of the mill programmers are essential in understanding Distributed Java computing. It even gives the code for a Three Tier JDBC driver.

In a nutshell, any Java programmer who is interested in Servlets, JDBC or Distributed Java Computing should own this book.

It is a pity such a great book has to languish in a series (Java Masters from McGraw Hill) amongst third rate books written by authors who seem to be interested only in making a quick buck and not edifying the reader.

Personally, I would have overlooked this book, but I noticed it only because the author is known for writing the JDBC-ODBC bridge and also for co-authoring a book on JDBC.

Buy it!!

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Summary: Great book by a working programmer
Review: This is an excellent book by an experienced programmer who obviously has an intimate working knowledge of the subject-matter. Gives you what you need to know with no filler. And, in addition, gives you helpful code to make your job easier when coding servlets.

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Summary: Excellent Java servlets book!
Review: This is an excellent book that covers Java servlets thoroughly and in a very logically presented manner. Highly recommended.

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Summary: One of the few Essential Java Books
Review: This is an excellent example of an experienced programmer wanting to impart everything about a subject to the public.

This book provides a great introduction and explanation of the complexities of distributed java computing, but it then goes into the deepest aspects aswell.

If you have to own any book about Java programming this should be in your top 3.

Also included are great examples that are worked through in the book and technology to test them with the jRun tool (which includes the Servlets API) and a Web server.