Mastering JSP

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 704 pages
• Published by: Sybex August 8, 2002
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0782129404
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0782129403
• Book Dimensions: 9 x 7.5 x 1.4 inches
• Weighs: 2.5 pounds

Product Description
Server-Side Development Is Easier Than You Think

Not so long ago, anyone who knew HTML, even casually, was considered to have a special skill. Now, if you don't at least dabble in server-side web development, you're already behind. Fortunately, Mastering JSP is a great way to build the skills you need today. Inside, you'll learn to design and develop a wide range of JSP-based web applications, beginning with a basic, dynamically generated website. From there you'll build apps that read from and write to databases, create your own custom tags, and process and present XML. Throughout, you're helped by detailed, completely illuminated examples.

Coverage includes:

• Making a servlet configurable
• Using JavaBeans inside Java Server Pages
• Building basic JavaBeans for storing user preferences and utility functions
• Recovering source code from binary class files
• Building a basic database application
• Handling exceptions and using asserts
• Redirecting error output to a file
• Scanning error logs using a servlet
• Using a pop-up menu to avoid troublesome actions
• Displaying XML files using XSLT and JSP
• Making a servlet-based watermarking application
• Providing dynamic authentication with roles, permissions, and access
• Building a Model-View Controller application
• Improving prototyping with ResultSets using a custom class
• Abstracting data access code using Java Objects
• Creating a custom tag to handle client-side JavaScript
• Abstracting data access SQL using meta-data, JavaBeans, and EJB

Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

Back Cover Copy
Server-Side Development Is Easier Than You Think

Not so long ago, anyone who knew HTML, even casually, was considered to have a special skill. Now, if you don’t at least dabble in server-side web development, you’re already behind. Fortunately, Mastering JSP is a great way to build the skills you need today. Inside, you’ll learn to design and develop a wide range of JSP-based web applications, beginning with a basic, dynamically generated website. From there you’ll build apps that read from and write to databases, create your own custom tags, and process and present XML. Throughout, you’re helped by detailed, completely illuminated examples. Coverage includes:

• Making a servlet configurable
• Using JavaBeans inside Java Server Pages
• Building basic JavaBeans for storing user preferences and utility functions
• Recovering source code from binary class files
• Building a basic database application
• Handling exceptions and using asserts
• Redirecting error output to a file
• Scanning error logs using a servlet
• Using a pop-up menu to avoid troublesome actions
• Displaying XML files using XSLT and JSP
• Making a servlet-based watermarking application
• Providing dynamic authentication with roles, permissions, and access
• Building a Model-View Controller application
• Improving prototyping with ResultSets using a custom class
• Abstracting data access code using Java Objects
• Creating a custom tag to handle client-side JavaScript
• Abstracting data access SQL using meta-data, JavaBeans, and EJB

Reader Reviews
When I first got this book and just thumbed through it, it seemed like it was going to be a good book. However, the more I actually read the chapters, the more I find it utterly lacking in content. The author does not explain things very much if at all. Many places, its just pages of source code listings with little or no comments and no explanations. Then when you get to the end of one source code listing, basically the only commentary is "and here's the next listing..". This annoying lack of explanations also carries through to the appendix, where a "JSP and Servlett API Reference" is included - problem is, its nothing but a commentless, explanationless dump of the member function prototypes. Fortunately, I bought this book used for $10. If I had paid the new price for it I would really be upset and would return it. That's my opinion.