Servlet and JSP (A Tutorial)

As a Java developer I've been using plenty of web frameworks over recent years. Every single of them was either using JSP, or was built on the top of Servlets or at least required some configuration in deployment descriptor. Even though I felt quite productive, there have always been present these little things that kept bothering me. If you often happen to see stack traces ending somewhere in servlet classes you know what I am talking about. After some time I realized that it might be good idea to dive into the basics and try to understand the pillar stones of the specification that many frameworks utilize. So I got this book.The book is extremely well structured and the order of chapters makes perfect sense. Each chapter starts with gentle introduction to the problem, properly describes the most important use cases of the core components and ends up with fine-grained details that you might refer to in the future. Chapters have very reasonable length and provided examples are clear. With correct zoom even the Kindle version has proper formatting, which seems (unfortunately) kinda rare in tech books.The only thing that was disturbing me was that author was using fully-qualified class names in API descriptions, even for java.lang.String or java.util.List. But overall impression of the book was very good so I easily forgave author this little annoyance and focused on the content instead.

Well I've read most of this book already, it has been an easy reading, the author explains things in an easy way and gives easy to folllow examples. To be able to follow the examples you must already know core java programming since the author does not goes to the explanation of java language. This is a good starting point to learn JSP/servlets though the examples could have been more practical if the author had ncluded database programming earlier in the book. But the chapter 10 which is a recap of all previous learning and applying it to a more complete application is very good. I have not read the chapters on file download/upload yet but I expect them to add practicality to the book examples.

Useful choice of topics. This is a programming book for advanced readers. If you are in programming field, this book is way better than a Dummies book.Cons- no online link or CD provided for code examples. You gotta type out the entire code if you want to try out examples in this book,and that's is rather cumbersome.

I found this book excellent. I liked the title, because it informs the purchaser exactly what the book contains, making my purchase decision really easy. This book was exactly what i needed to get up to speed in servlet technologies. The examples were instructive, and followed each other progressively. The text was clear and quite well written. You need some understanding of java to understand this book. A minor gripe that there were some typos in the text, and the code samples weren't well formatted in the ebook, making them difficult to read.

Chapter 10 is application design, and until then I was unsure of how a program should be arranged. It would have been better if the book had given more hints of proper design earlier in the book.

It is a great book about servlets and jsp. A lot of fundamentals explained.I put only four stars because i was expecting something about internal funcionality about http and servlets but it is minor.Great book!!

I bought this book since I want to know how to programming web server. I have many year programming experiences in C, C++. I found this is exact book I am looking for. It is well organized to show the piece by piece how software put together to make web server work. It is easy to follow and understand. I feel lucky to find it.

I'm an experienced Java EE developer and have read many books on the subject. This one is by far the worst one I read on the subject. The author does not explain things enough and if you're new, you will definitely be lost. I would recommend Head First Servlets and JSPs instead of this one.

A collection of tutorials, without a pedagogical approach.Rare diagramsPoor examples:- new different story for each example, instead of having one cumulative application for the whole book, which requires more words to explain and more effort to understand- the code is batch-listed once, then repeated in order to highlight the main points, while we could do it at once.- Examples not in the spirit of the topic. for instance, the jsp examples are full of scripting, while the purpose of jsp is to remove scripting.

eine Werk das es mir angetan hat, von der ersten Minute an wurde ich vom Autor in die Themen regelrecht hinein gesaugt.Der Titel des Buches hätte meiner Meinung nach besser sein können, da der Autor nicht nur Servlet & JSP als Technologien behandelt, andere Technologien wie JSF etc. werden hier auch angerissen (jedoch nicht zum Ende gebracht, was nicht schlimm ist, gut das der Author auch über den Tellerrand guckt).Das Buch ist durchweg angenehm geschrieben, ist meiner Meinung nach ein muss für jeden WebEntwickler (vor allem wenn dieser mit JavaEE und dem zugehörigen Stack zu tun hat).

kindle version is for edition 1 while the paperback version is for edition 2

Cobre boa parte dos assuntos da certificação web java para quem esta interessado, muito bem explicado e com muitos exemplos.

Gran libro para introducirte en aplicaciones Java WEB. Buscaba algo que me diese información sobre servlets y me encontré que este libro te explica otros temas como acceso a base de datos, te introduce en Spring,.....Los ejemplos son muy fáciles de seguir y están muy bien explicados. Una pena que no se encuentre material en español.