Servlets and JSP: The J2EE Web Tier

Series: The DevelopMentor Series This is the authoritative tutorial to the JSP 2.0 and Servlets 2.4 specifications written by JSP W3C expert committee members--Jayson Falkner, JSPInsider founder and WebMaster, and Kevin Jones, DevelopMentor UK co-founder. Servlets and JavaServer Pages is a complete guide to building web applications using Java Servlets and JavaServer Pages. The book covers the basics including installing a JSP/Servlet environment on your computer, HTTP, HTML forms, JSP 2.0, Servlets 2.4, custom tag libraries, and the JSTL 1.0. The book also covers the most complex topics of error handling, design patterns, internationalization and multi-lingual sites, security, sessions and state management, database connectivity, and building sites that can produce multiformats of content on the fly. This book explains how to create applications using the Servlet and JSP specifications that are robust, performant and scaleable!

User review
Very good book on servlet and JSP
The book covers every important aspect of servlet and jsp technologies with nice samples.I do totally recommend this for everyone willing to learn servlet/jsp.

User review
a good book to read
Overall, it is good book to read.

The begining chapters are good for beginners, especially for people to use TomCat.

The later chapters are advanced but not detailed enough for reference. They explain concepts. But they are advanced so not many readers care about it and they may think these pages are waste.

The samples are very good to run without issue when you check logs in this book's website.

One thing I don't like is it uses pages to explain Servlet which is not very popular in the world now.

I have been working on all tiers of web applications. I think the reviewers gave low score to this book are really new comer to the Java world.

User review
Good Book for a Beginner
I bought this book and I thought it was a good resource to start developing JSP based Servlet based web applications.
I would recommend this book as a starter for anyone making the initial transition to Java Web Development. There are many books on the shelf, not as many as in years before, and in truth most of them are not worth the paper they are written on. But these books are normally published by the same company. Addison Wesley usually publishes good quality material.
Good book for the right audience.


User review
Good book
I rate it 5 stars just because Ken Januski underrated it. Do not believe Januski. I can suppose he simply dous not know what he is talking about. This is far not the `worst book`, this book is good and it actual rating must be 4 stars.

The only one lack is that it is not suitable as your first book on the topic. Servlets are explained on only 70 pages, there are not many examples there, so you need some knowledge to read this book.

But anyway, its worth buying.

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English as a 5th language
I have to admit that I haven't finished this book, but I may never accomplish that and retain any hair on my head. Each page requires me to pull a little more hair out of my head in frustration. If you want to get a sampling of the prose `just consider that as I read each and every page I attain a level of frustration at the wasted and unclear words that dominate the very page I am reading and make me almost feel that the authors may in fact just be using needless words to bulk up the book rather than to make the book readable or useful and because of that I want to pull my hair out.` Yes that's the way the book is written. About this time the authors will tell you that they've covered all the information that they wanted to in this paragraph and are now moving on to the next one.

I have to agree with the reviewer who suggested saving your time and money on another book. This is by far the worst book I've ever read on jsp and servlets and it makes me very angry that I didn't spend my money elsewhere.

I particularly take to task the editors of Addison-Wesley who have put out some of the best computer programming books I've read. Did they send all their copy editors on vacation as this book came out? There's not the slightest hint of copy editing.

Beyond my complaints about the prose the content isn't much either. Compared to the O'Reilly jsp and servlet books or the Marty Hall books, or the SCWCD certifications books from Manning and Wrox this books is truly horrible and not very useful. All of them cover these technologies better and with prose that actually is enjoyable reading.

All in all I have to say that Addison-Wesley ought to be embarrassed by this one.