JavaServer Pages, 3rd Edition

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 664 pages
• Published by: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
• Edition: 3rd Edition December 1, 2003
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0596005636
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0596005634
• Book Dimensions: 9.1 x 7 x 1.5 inches
• Weighs: 2.5 pounds

Reader Reviews
I bought this book hoping to learn enough of JSP/Servlets to create an e-commerce website. My impression after reading this book is that the author tries very hard to please both beginners and intermediate developers. To this extent, he winds up pleasing no one. Quite often he tells "advanced programmers" to jump ahead and read a later chapter. This didn't make the book flow very well. This book gives a lot of JSP code, but skimps on the code when it comes to Beans, which are critical elements to the examples. I assume the author expects the reader to download the Bean code from O'Reilly's website and decipher the code by themselves. Because of this incompleteness, I was not able to completely grasp the ideas behind the examples. It would've been better if the author included the Bean code along with the supporting JSP code. By not providing code for them, Beans are treated like a "black box" throughout this book. The last gripe I have about this book is the author's inordinate amount of use of "..." in the code examples. Quite often in listing the codes, he would throw the three dots. Again, this renders the examples in the book almost useless to those trying to type in the code for themselves to learn. A more thorough and coherent book for learning about JSP and Servlets would be "Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages" by Marty Hall and Larry Brown. Comment | | (Report this)