Core Java Web Server

Rating:
Summary: Really a poor-quality book
Review: I never write any book review after I finish reading a book. However, this book is so bad that I decide to write a few comments to warn other readers. There are several reasons that you should not buy this book. (1) It is badly-written. I sometimes find that some of these figures are not correctly labelled. Authors should find a good software to write their book. (2) It is poorly-organized. After I read it twice, it is still very hard for me to find some information quickly. (3) It is out-of-date. Its servlet API is version 2.0. A few examples that you read cannot run at all on Java Web Server 2.0. It is talking about Java Web Server 1.1.1. The current of Java Web server version is 2.0. (4) There are many better books than this one. After I have read quite a few Servlet books, I find that the best one is probably Professional Java Server Programming. The Second best is Jason Hunter's Servlet Programming which has a nice collection of useful servlets. (5) The examples in this book are trivial.

It is not really worthing reading it.

Rating:
Summary: Excellent, detailed info about JWS and surrounding issues
Review: If you are a JWS user and can buy only one book on Java servlets, this should be it.

I found this book to be an excellent complement to the other servlet-related books. This book focuses on Java Web Server from Sun and yet it has more than enough of very good information on servlets. The sections on running JWS on Linux, on using different VM's and JRE's, performance testing, custom security realms, using JNDI/LDAP and also the appendix on XML and the MS XML parser were of specific interest to me. In summary, strongly recommended for those using JWS.

Nitin Borwankar

Rating:
Summary: Great Book For Serious Servlet Developers
Review: This is an excellent book for the Servlet developer who wants to learn the insides of the Java Web Server and how to extend it through the Java Servlet technology. The authors don't simply cover what has been covered in the API documentation, they cover topics that have not been touched by similar books. This is a neat feature that makes this book really unique. Furthermore, the book offers the reader "brush-up" type sections on XML, HTTP, and other web technologies that any hard core web developer should know. The XML and HTTP sections cover more markup and theory than entire books on the subject. I could tell (by the quality of the writing and the amount of material covered that) the authors really put time into the writing of this book.