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Advanced JavaServer Pages
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Author: David M. Geary
List Price: $44.99
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ISBN: 0130307041
Publisher: Pearson Higher Education (29 May, 2001)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 87,612
Average Customer Rating: 4.39 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 1 out of 5
Waste of Time and Money
It's been almost 4 months since I purchased the book and read the first 1/3 of it. I've since tossed it.I was looking for a book that covered Tag libaries from a technical perspective - and give good reasons for using them. The book was written as a text book for first year college students to work through the chapters - which start with tediously simple examples - and provide no examples of substance or value. It also assumes "tags are good" - and provides no evidence of it. So - if you're willing to accept what the authorities tell you without challenge or thinking about it - perhaps this book is for you. From my perspective, the world is full of Java101 books. It doesn't need any more - and certainly not this one.
Anybody looking at the inerworkings of tag libraries should be passed the 101 level. Sorry David - but you missed your audience.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Awesome
This is the book to get if you're already familiar with servlet and jsp basics, but you want to find out how to develop maintainable, extensible, and reusable web applications with jsp and servlets. This book shows you how to apply design patterns in your web apps, including MVC and the facade pattern for HTML forms. I found this book to be an easy read, and it considerably improved my web development skills. Looking forward to a second edition.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Excellent
I would recommend this extremely well-written book to anyone who is seriously interested in J2EE architecture. If you have basic familiarity with server-side Java (servlets, JSP), Advanced JavaServer Pages will help you understand design patterns and strategies that are widely popular among experienced J2EE software developers, such as Model 2 Architecture or Composite View. The author provides a great tutorial on custom tags. The first two chapters: "Custom tag fundamentals" and "Custom tag advanced concepts" is all you need to start developing JSP custom tags. Whether you consider using an open source framework like Jakarta Struts, or writing your own, David Geary's book provides a great deal of insight and tons of carefully written source code. I am using his custom tags based implementation of the composite view pattern in my projects. By the way, the downloadable source code is very reliable. The book's case study, and all other examples, work "out of the box". It was very easy to switch the sample code from Cloudscape to MySQL and mmMySQL JDBC driver.
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