This, like all other books I have purchased from this publisher, is excellent value for money. It teaches in a byte size chunk which makes learning easy. I wish all publishers of technical books would follow this approach. This book should be on the shelf of anybody learning Java Servlets and JSP from scratch. The only one provisory is that unless you are familiar with programming in Java, you will need to read Java SE6 from the same publisher first, as this book does not cover basic java programming.