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Message from Dean - May 8th 2007
I am currently testing out a new version of the APF Bridge Component - If you notice any errors within this demo store please drop me a line.
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 005
EAN: 9781590590201
Edition: 1st
ISBN: 1590590201
Label: Apress
Manufacturer: Apress
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 308
Publication Date: April 15, 2002
Publisher: Apress
Studio: Apress
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While most other books merely instruct on basic JSP and servlet development, JSP Examples and Best Practices gives you some of the best practices and design principles, enabling you to build scalable and extensible enterprise Java applications. And JavaServer Pages technology can be used to build complex enterprise applications in a highly re-usable manner.
This book takes basic JSP and applies sound architectural principles and design patterns, to give you the tools to build scalable enterprise applications using JSP. Further, this book covers new features of the JSP 1.2 specification, including the standard filtering mechanism.
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This book will probably be most useful to someone who knows JSPs and servlets and has worked with them, and is looking for better or alternative ways of writing JSP applications.
The first two chapters provide a review of JSPs and an overview of web deployment. They include a nice JSP/MySQL example, with
instructions indicating how to build the MySQL database and incorporate into the JSP example using JDBC.
Chapters 3 and 4 include discussions and examples of how to use JavaBeans and custom tags. The JavaBean example shows how to handle the display of a large amount of data retrieved from a database.
The use of J2EE patterns is discussed in the next several chapters, as befitting a book with "best practices" in its title. The four patterns covered are the Decorating Filter, Front Controller, View Helper, and Dispatcher View.
The remainder of the book covers some topics that are not directly connected to JSPs, but may be useful ... Read More
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This book draws a clear picture on JSP web application development. If you are a JSP beginner, this book is a must read. It teaches you the right way to do things from the beginning.
I really enjoyed its step by step approach that leads to the framework based application development, makes a lot of sense to me.
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I can save you money on the purchase of this book. If you can answer "yes" to the questions below, there is no need to buy this book:
* Do you know what JSP and servlets are?
* Do you know how to separate presentation and business logic with JavaBeans and custom tags?
* Are you familiar with MVC?
If so, no need for the book. I was expecting much more. It's less best practice, and more typical web app development. What disappointed me further was various comments in the text that displayed poor practices in areas outside of JSP web development, e.g. "the first step in developing a jsp web application is designing the user interface."
My one-star rating can be summarized as follows:
* Poor typesetting and book formatting: -1
* Very few "best practices" -2
* Below average writing, low content-to-price tag ratio -1
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I am teaching myself server-side Java programming. After reading, using, and reviewing many books on Java server-side web development, I had found they fell into two categories: Beginner and advanced. The beginner books typically introduce a lot of bad coding practices, such as filling JSP pages with java code, or using outdated examples of Servlets that output HTML. After a few chapters of this, they jump to the Struts framework, thereby never helping the reader build good coding practices and skills.
The advanced books get quickly into frameworks like Struts, and also employ EJBs. EJBs are not needed in many web applications, where they introduce unneeded complexity. What I wanted but couldn't find was a good book that covered the middle ground: how to build applications based on JSPs and Servlets that demonstrate good design and coding practices, with a realistic sample application, and yet understandable for someone learning the J2EE technology.
When I found this book ... Read More
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I agree mostly with what some of the other positive reviews read. The discussion about different design patterns was interesting to read.
However, I did get caught up on the source code in the book. I would think that a book is supposed to be about "best practices" would handle quotes in database inserts/updates. Is it common practice to assume that your form data will never contain erroneous information that will cause your system to fail?
I don't want to harp on this book too bad (many others are worse), but I am still searching for a solid JSP book that has sample code on how to build a solid/useful application from start to finish, while maintaining a clean separation of business logic and actual presentation.
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