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Summary: Lacks some important information
Review: At first this book seemed great, but now that I have had to work a lot with JSPs, I have seen some serious shortcomings. The TagExtraInfo class get's way too little coverage. The book doesn't even begin to explain how to actually use it in real work. That's a serious shortcoming.
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Summary: Examples weren't throroughly tested
Review: Don't know how this text got past the editors. Just about every chapter had typos and syntax errors. Some of the scriptlets had class instantiation problems that needed to be corrected. There were include directives that referenced code that wasn't included on the accompanying CD - nor shown in the book. The JNDI/LDAP section was a joke and the XML didn't work without debugging either.For those giving the book 5 stars - I wonder if they tried the examples or just read the text?
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Summary: Great Book
Review: First, a comment for Dave Feltenberger. Who very ignorantly gave the first review. Because you CAN use vector.add() and there are always ways for using special characters. Dave, checkout APIs before comments like these. All books have typos, this is not an English book. I have read several tutorials on JSP. This one is by far the best source for beginning JSP and/or for advanced reading. Contains very comprehensive knowledge of using JSP with other technologies and not just JSP. But if you are a beginner, This is still the best. Definitely recommend this book. This is one of the books you want to keep.
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Summary: Great kickstart for learning JSP
Review: Great book for anybody wanting to learn how to use dynamic page generation in a Java Server environment. Excellent examples if you need to get something running quickly. Anybody planning to build web applications in a J2EE environment should read this book.
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Summary: AN excellent JSP book
Review: Have you worked with JSP? Do you understand how to use JSP to develope database connectivity, XML/XSL and Javabean applications? This is a book for people who wants to completely understand JSP. Excellent logical structure for the learning process with extremly pertinent examples and code. An excellent book, just like other good Core series books from Prentice Hall PTR.
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Summary: good book, buggy examples
Review: i had a hard time to work with the examples in the book. a half of them simply does not work. some of them are really good when others are too complicated.
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Summary: Code errors!
Review: I only just started this book and I am already frustrated. No instructions on how to get the software you need or how to use it. The versions on the CD-ROM are outdated meanwhile. But what is really bad, the first "useful" JSP script in chapter 2 is already so full of code errors that you cannot run it! It took me hours of debugging before I made it run - how are you supposed to be debugging the stuff you are supposed to learn from? I will try to read a bit further but probably have to get another book.
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Summary: Needs work
Review: I would rank this book as mediocre at best. More annoying than the numerous editorial oversights in the text and code (and there are many) are the misuses of terms, both technical and nontechnical. One gets the impression that the authors are trying to write beyond their abilities. It also makes me question the accuracy of the rest of the material when I find such errors on topics with which I am already familiar. Also frustrating is the way a lot of concepts are referenced before being introduced, with no indication that such is the case. If I didn't already know Java very well and have an inkling about JSP coming in, I expect I would have been very confused. I was looking for something that would get me up to speed on JSP quickly and not get too bogged down in details, and in that respect the book did reasonably well. But I gave up on it halfway through because I found it too frustrating. It's not terrible, but with a bit of work and better editing, it could have been a lot better.
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Summary: Straight, concise and easy to follow
Review: I'm an ASP developer who wanted to get into JSP, this book guides you through most of the essential stuffs you need to get up and running with JSP. This book kind-of focuses on the construction phase of development, it won't teach you how to set-up a JSP server, it will however explain adequately how to use JSP with Javabeans, JDBC and other technologies. The CD is complete with everything you'd need to get started, from an IDE to a JSP Server.
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Summary: JSP
Review: If compare to the servlet JSP book it is not enough of the guideline to teach the user to using, e.g for the "coding" It must give one full example from A -Z in full detail .
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