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Wrox Beginning JavaServer Pages
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User review Beginners book, it is NOT I bought this book expecting that it would be a beginners book, in that it would start you off with some basics and move on from there. I also expected that due to to its size and content, it would be an adequate reference when I progressed beyond the basics. I expected this to be a fairly `easy read` since I have substantial backgroud programming in ASP. Unfortunately, the book is fairly disorganized and cotains a fair amount of technical rambling. Definitely more confusing more than educational. In essence, I consider this more of a reference manual than the learning book that I had hoped for and I will be buying another beginners book. User review very disappointing The word `Beginning` in the title is optimistic at best. I would not recommend this book for someone new to JSP. I've made it through 14 chapters, and now I'm going to drop this one and find something else. The last several chapters have been extremely frustrating. Too many examples don't work, and many things are not well explained. I've had to find other sources such as java.sun.com to find good explanations for things that are quickly passed over in this book. And I'm a certified J2SE programmer, so I'm not exactly a beginner. The only IDE that has been mentioned so far is NetBeans 3.6. That's hopelessly out of date. The order of the chapters doesn't even make sense. An exercise in chapter 5 wants you to create and deploy an application, but nothing is mentioned about deployment until chapter 16! And forget about asking questions on the P2P forums at the wrox website. They are effectively abandoned. Overall, way too much reading for poor explanations, and poor exercises. You can find something better. User review Excelent The book is extremly good, it explain everything about JSP and other new technologies, i really recomend it User review Not the best I did learn a lot about JSP from this book. I learned how it works and the history of it. I did not, however, learn how to write JSP. This book touts hand-ons but their idea of hands-on is pasting several pages of code in the book and telling you to write it verbatim in your code. It goes over some good tools (such as Ant) but never mentions an IDE or what the best way to go about starting a project is. For the most part it moved very slowly and repeated its self a lot. The book is about twice as long as it needs to be. I do feel like I learned from this book but overall I don't think it was worth my time. User review Does not fail to amaze me,, This book is the perfect complement to Marty Hall's Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages Vol. 1,,,,`You wont be dissapointed with this book since almost everything is covered here from Servlets,JNDI,JDBC,JAXP and Java Mail,,,,Plus the authors writing is absolutely beginner-friendly,,.If you want to learn the basics of java however this book is not for you,,.but then the power of Java really shines on Server-side programming,,.and plus the J2EE architecture is centered on JSP technology,,.I would recommend this to anyone who wishes to dwell into web-services programming,,.One downside i found however was the repetition of several topics such as XML and XSLT however provided with the fact that this is the culmination of several authors work i think with that said the repetition of topics can be forgiven,,.hell if ya already know the stuff from chapter 6 and its repeated on chapter 8 hell skip it,,.its that simple,,,,highly recommended for JSP beginners and gurus alike Other books on JSP & Servlets | |||||||||||||
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