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Summary: Excellent Roadmap
Review: I felt that after having read a variety of books on the subject, this book gives a solid methodology for making Servlets, JSPs and beans work together to deliver an end-to-end website. Other books were too piecemeal, and since I already understand Java, a style book was a must. A great addition to your J2EE library.
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Summary: A must have JSP book
Review: I have read about 5 servlet and jsp books, but nothing comes close for advanced, clean, portable and well documented JSP tags and code. This book should be called "JSP examples in a nutshell". If you find it easy to learn from examples, this is the book for you. Source code for every example in the book is included (JSP, beans, custom tags, ect.). Even a beginner can be developing JSP in no time at all. If your a coldfusion developer, after reading this book you may just get rid of your Cold Fusion server and go with JRUN. A servlet and Java book on the side is also helpfull if you want to round out you server side java development skills and learn all the how's and why's.
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Summary: Whats up with the toaster?
Review: I read O'Reilly books because they are quite readable some technical references can be quite boring. Subject is handled well and provides a wonderful perspective. While the text presupposes some prior java knowledge its context provides meaning and offers frequent references.
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Summary: Does what it says in the title!
Review: I really find this book very useful. It covers the breadth of Javaserver pages well. I found the section on JDBC and connection pooling with my JSP application more useful than my JDBC references! It is not a "Teach Yourself in X days" book but it is very instructive. Even more importantly it is a solid introduction to how you should use JSP as well.
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Summary: Disappointed reader
Review: I spent one hour reading this book at Barnes & Noble B&M this weekend. When I entered the store, I planned to buy it. However, I decided not to buy this book when I left. The author noticed that JSP-Servlet-Enterprise JavaBeans architecture is the most complicated one but also the best architecture for enterprise solutions. However, he just discussed how to use JavaBeans. Be aware that this is not a good approach for developing enterprise application. How to control security? How to manage resources? How to control transaction? You may develop a system very quickly using JavaBeans. Later you find that you have to write code for manage transaction, security, connection pool etc. I suggest the author write several chapters discussing JSP-Servlet-Enterprise architecture. The book also contains around 170 pages of API documents. I suggest buying another book: Web Development with Java Server Pages.
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Summary: Outstanding!!!
Review: I would have liked to give it 10 stars if it were possible. I purchased a copy of this book and I have a whole JSP application in production using the JSP Tags from this book within a month. Each and every example worked and the supporting text made it very convenient. Hans Bergsten has done a great favor to the Java developer community through this book.
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Summary: Great book
Review: I'm a newbie, and I find the book to be clear and concise. I also have to admit that the author is quick to get back if you have questions! (Always a nice feature, IMHO.)
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Summary: Great book
Review: I'm a newbie, and I find the book to be clear and concise. I also have to admit that the author is quick to get back if you have questions! (Always a nice feature, IMHO.)
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Summary: Best JSP Book I've Seen So Far
Review: I've been using Java for around 5 years, so I've seen my fair share of books. I just got started on server-side stuff, so naturally I bought a few books - 3 to be exact - on servlets and JSPs.
I liked the short, terse CodeNotes reference that I bought, but the other 2 ... Man, half the time I didn't really understand what I was reading, and I have never seen so many errors in my life! Honestly, I didn't know if it was because the server-side was so confusing or if the authors and publishers (none were O'Reilly) just didn't care.
Then I bought this book and I am once again a happy camper. Both the text and examples are clear, concise, useful, and error-free. I really like the way the author not only explains concepts, but tells me why it is important that I know them.
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Summary: Book ruined by "ora" custom code and tags.
Review: If you want to learn about Hans Bergsten's custom "ora" beans, then buy this book. He has taken the brunt of the Java code used in the JSP pages and hidden it in his own Beans. For example, he reimplemented JDBC and hid it in his own "ora" beans. To make matters worse he relies heavily on XML tags to implement JSP, instead of embedded code (<% ... %>). This makes his code hard to read and debug. I had to skip several chapters that tried to teach me about his ridiculous "ora" beans used mostly within XML tags, instead of teaching me how to write Java in JSP. It's a shame since the guy is a decent writer, but he is definitely not a professional programmer. He's an amateur showing off his own beans at the cost of forgetting to teach JSP.
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