Java Servlets by Example

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Summary: Good content but bad publishing
Review: I found this book to be a useful, if not very in-depth, overview of servlets. I liked the inclusion of the section on servlet engines, as well as some of the author's own utility classes. I agree somewhat with the first review regarding formatting of the book itself. The worst aspect of this book is the numerous typos, particularly in the source code. If you plan to implement any of the examples, be prepared to do a lot of debugging. For example, at one point in a sample program the author calls a class that he has written himself using an incorrect class name. Typos like these make sample code useless for anything but the most schematic overview. Manning press would be well served by examining O'Reilly publications for this kind or rigor.

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Summary: Worst of Servlet books
Review: I was curious about this book when I read this review page, so I decided to get one just to see how bad it is. And it's bad really. All I can say is: it's the worst one. The author says so much about unimportant topics, while he doesn't concentrate on other more important things much. I recommend Java Servlet Programming by Jason Hunter and Inside Serlvets by Dustin Callaway.

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Summary: It's Java Servlets! No it's not!
Review: I was deceived by the title of this book. I thought the book would talk about a direct-to-the-point servlet but you'll end up reading other topics such us CGI, Java, web server, HTML, etc. If you are familiar with those you'll end up skipping sections. The author should change the title of this book. To be honest when I was reading it, I got bored and lost interest on the book so I decided to return it.

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Summary: garbage
Review: I'm new to servlet programming, but sufficiently prepared to realize that this is a very sloppy written book. I also suspect that the author doesn't have the insight and posseses only superficial take on the subject. Don't buy it !

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Summary: Crazy reviews
Review: Most of the reviews are so unreasonably negative that I have decided on 5 stars, although I think 3 1/2 is about right. The examples are not so trivial and are in fact useful. The way each problem is presented is, I think, pretty good. The author covers plenty of popular topics such as online shopping, search engines, chats, RMI and JDBC. I like the way the code is given piece by piece and then finally in its complete form. Why other readers found this approach so awful is a mystery to me. It's certainly far from being a waste of money.

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Summary: SOS Java World! Police!
Review: Please! Somebody stops this jerk! He has to stop writing!People that are not aware, are buying this junk,spending their hard earned money,actually beliving that it will bring some knowledge to them. His first book was already the biggest scheme of computer writing! How can you force me to give one Star! How about a Black-Hole?That's where people's money and expectations are gonna go! It's criminal! Somebody arrest this phony!

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Summary: A great start to servlets
Review: The negative reviews on this book smack of a political witch hunt against the author. This is an excellent starter book for servlets that contains realistic examples that work. Are there some negatives, sure - there are in all books. As a whole, this book is a useful reference and a good read. I have and would recommend it again to folks starting out with Servlets.

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Summary: example do not work
Review: This book covers less about servlets than you could find in one or two issues of any monthly java periodical, and what it does present is shaky and amatuerish at best. I only wish I had seen these reviews before purchasing it at my local bookstore. What a waste. The author should be held accountable for this garbage, as well as the publisher.