Amazon.co.uk: Professional JSP 2nd Edition: Karl Avedal, Robert Burdick, Darko Cokor, Jayson Falkner, Ben Galbraith, Rod Johnson, Larry Kim, Casey Kochmer, Thor Kristmundsson, Sing Li, Dan Malks, Mark Nelson, Grant Palmer, Bob Sullivan, Geoff Taylor, John Timney, Sameer Tyagi, Geert Van Damme, Steve Wilkinson: Books

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In essence, JSP (Java Server Pages) do the same job as ASP and use similar, HTML-alike code to do it. At an implementation level the JSP code is converted on the fly to a Java Servlet which produces the Web page so it's no surprise to find Professional JSP covers Servlets as well.

It's been updated to cover JSP 1.2's new features--including the ability to write JSP in the language de jour, XML--and Servelet 2.3, which adds an "official" way of chaining servlets.

As Professional JSP starts with Servlets the book's title seems a little odd, but really you need both JSP and Servlets for effective J2EE presentation programming.

With 18 authors and 21 technical reviewers it's unsurprising that though technically accurate and thorough to a fault Professional JSP has a distinctly disjointed feel, often reading more like a collection of loosely related essays on the subject (which is how it probably started out) than a fully integrated guide. On the plus side, this isn't a problem if you're already a Java programmer looking to extend your skills, but it won't suit those looking specifically for a guide to JSP. Those will probably find a dedicated title such as JavaServer Pages more useful.

The real strength of Professional JSP is in demonstrating how JSP integrates with Servlets, Javabeans, XML and related technologies on the server, and how to design your server side applications to make the most appropriate use of JSP alongside these other technologies. --Steve Patient

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JavaServer Pages, together with the Java Servlet API, provide the dynamic web content presentation layer for the Java 2 Enterprise Edition. JSPs and Servlets integrate tightly to enable scalable and portable applications, and are widely supported. This book extensively covers the next generation of these technologies, JSP 1.2 and Servlets 2.3, which are nearing completion under the Java Community Process and provide major enhancements to Java's web programming model.

This book looks in depth at these core components of the forthcoming J2EE 1.3 platform, preparing you for building the next generation of web solutions. You'll learn about the enhancements to the JSP tag library model; the new filtering and application event facilities; how to architect web applications to ensure clean separation of presentation and logic; and the increasingly popular Jakarta Struts framework. The book also addresses using JSP with XML and XSLT; databases access with JDBC; and how JSP and Servlets fit into the overall J2EE platform alongside Enterprise JavaBeans, JavaMail, and other J2EE technologies.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

Adds up to less than the sum of its parts, 30 Nov 2002

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This book covers a lot of ground, not just JSP, but only superficially. There is little sense of coordination between the individual writers and chapters. Just when you are starting to get to grips with a topic, you are thrown onto something completely different. Like a lot of Wrox books, this one suffers from too many independent writers, and it could really use a comprehensive example project that could be used to demonstrate all the different topics. I worked through most of this book but still don't feel much the wiser on how to design a JSP site. Maybe other readers will fare better.

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Starting with servlets was a mistake, 8 Feb 2003

By	Mike (South Yorkshire) - See all my reviews

I was expecting a coherent and well-structured introduction to JSP here. I was under the impression that JSP was (mostly) developed not only as a cross-platform replacement for ASP and PHP but also to largely replace servlets, which were more difficult to understand and maintain.

I read Chapters 1 and 2 with no problems. Then came a 70 page chapter on servlets, not what I had bought this to learn about! Thinking I could safely skip this chapter and return to it if and as needed, I was disappointed to find that just about the first thing Chapter 4 does is refer you back to a diagram in the previous chapter! Surely JSP in its abstraction could have taken precedence, or was this initially intended as an introduction to servlets, with JSP as an appendage?

Plus, was the first thing I desired to know about JSP a complete list of all the JSP directives? I think not! This book rapidly found its way back to my bookshelf.

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Disjointed, repetitive and useless as a reference manual., 8 Jun 2001

By	keith_sherratt@hotmail.com (England) - See all my reviews

The problem with this book is very evident from the picture on the front cover. If ever a book was a case-in-point of the proverb "too many cooks spoil the broth" then this is it. Sixteen authors! I ask you.

Each chapter in isolation is actually pretty good, however, when they are all bundled together you get a book that is disjointed, repetitive and useless as a reference manual because the information for the subject you are interested in is probably contained in numerous sections and explained in differing styles.

In summary, another one of many recent IT technical books that is obviously trying to sell itself on size rather than quality of material.

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Wrong title, wide coverage, and hard reading.
This book would have been better entitled "Some experts overviews of Web Development with JAVA - with examples". Read more

Published on 11 Aug 2002 by Richard

If you have first edition don't buy this book
Too much fat, too much cases study, sometimes very simple (yes, we know what's XML file or application web). Only TagLibs chapters may be ok, the rest like the first version.

Published on 2 Aug 2001

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