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This in-depth tutorial acquaints HTML and Java programmers with the world of JSP tags-Java components that open up JSP development to the everyday content developer (the HTML programmer) and improve code reuse and separation between presentation and business logic. Using real-world tags, it guides the novice through practical JSP applications, such as performing iterations and accessing databases, EJBs, e-mail systems, and Java Beans, and demonstrates how tags can be used in the context of e-commerce applications and WAP that work with cellular phones. Included are numerous short examples that can be reused to add simple and powerful dynamic features to Web sites. ... Read more

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XML Programming: Web Applications and Web Services with JSP and ASP provides a fast-moving introduction to the XML family of technologies for programmers. Although written with a focus upon JSP- and ASP-based XML solutions, the book presents the material from a language-independent point of view that benefits all developers, whatever their language. The code is written to be readable by all.

Chapters 1 through 3 cover the foundations of XML&emdash;well-formed and valid documents, DTDs and namespaces&emdash;but XLink, XPointer, and elements of XSLT are introduced early so the examples can be interesting and useful. Chapters 4 through 6 cover XML processing using SAX, DOM, and XSLT, separately and in various combinations. Each chapter progresses from simple to advanced examples.

Chapter 7 is devoted to the development of a real world project involving the use of various XML technologies to create an information repository. In the context of the project, the authors present RDF and the Dublin Core; revisit XPath, XLink, and XPointer; and show how XML data can live inside a relational database. Chapter 8 introduces the newer validation technologies (RELAX NG and XML Schema), in preparation for the final chapter on Web services. In the concluding chapter, the authors not only explain the specifications, but also build working examples: You're shown, step-by-step, how to convert a software module into a Web service, how to generate a WSDL description from code, how to use WSDL to generate stubs and skeletons for distributed language-independent applications, and how to register such applications with a UDDI repository, either local or on the Internet.

XML Programming: Web Applications and Web Services with JSP and ASP is an indispensable resource for programmers who wish to become proficient in XML technologies and use them for solving large-scale, real-life problems.

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JavaServer Pages (JSP) is a multipurpose language based on Java technology that provides a simplified, fast way to create dynamic Web content. JSP is specific to Web page creation and rendering, and is a key Web technology for developers and administrators working with Java.
* Explains how JSP can be used to simplify tasks, shorten the development cycle, and integrate Web content with other elements of J2EE
* Shows how JSP enables Web designers and other nonprogrammers to quickly gain essential abilities for the creation of dynamic Web pages ... Read more

Customer Reviews (3)

Bloated and replete with typos
I was very disappointed by this book.Having "cut my teeth" in Web application development using ColdFusion, I bought this book to learn JSP.Although it seems that this book was written in a task-oriented fashion in order to explain the steps and appropriate division of labor to a person who is naive to Web application development, I find that this approach is ineffective.This book is overly explicit about simple concepts and insufficiently explicit about many complex concepts.Its treatment of beans and database connectivity are especially lacking... and these are arguably the two most complex (and important) areas of JSP development.And there were MANY typographical erros in the printed code; since I am comfortable programming in Java, I recognized these typos, but I pity the Java novice who can't figure out why the darn things won't compile.In addition, much of the Java code did not follow best practices (e.g., the author frequently initializes Strings to " " rather than an empty string or null).Because of the book's task-oriented organization and poor indexing, it is not highly useful as a reference either.

I did learn something from this book but only because I understood from my advance knowledge of Web programming with ColdFusion many of the principles that the author teaches in JSP. This allowed me to recognize the errors in the book and infer principles from the code that were not explicitly explained (which was made more difficult by the many errors in the code).If this was my first foray into Web programming, I think that I would have found this book highly frustrating and of little value.

Easy to Read
The author style and step-by step approach make this book very accessible, even for someone who is new to the technology.This is a great book for getting started and getting your hands dirty with JSP.

Great Web Tool
I was looking for a way to create Web pages on the fly from existing databases, and someone recommended JSP.This book got me off and running with JSP and helped me get done what I needed to do quickly and easily. ... Read more

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Developed by the open source community to make writing JavaServer Pages (JSP) faster and easier, JSP custom tags give Java developers the ability to insert XML style tags, representing complex business logic, into a JSP. This code is reusable and can help to simplify and reduce the amount of original code that needs to be written.
* James Goodwill is a well-respected authority and bestselling author of books on Java Web applications
* Provides a hands-on, code-intensive guide for building and using custom tags to create enterprise-strength JSP applications and examines the concepts and techniques needed to build sophisticated Web applications
* Companion Web site contains the JSP, servlet, and custom tag code found in the book ... Read more

Customer Reviews (8)

Mastering JSP Tags?
This book does cover a lot of ground. You will probably learn about JSP custom tags and tag libraries if you can get through all the typos and errors in the example code. I think this book does a good job of covering the mechanics of JSP Tags. I don't think it covers the design aspects of using tags very well. I would have rated it higher if someone had bothered to proofread this book.

Finally
Finally, I was able to find a tags book that made since. I loved everything about the text. It covered the process of creating tags from the ground up, including excellant coverage of a tags life. Great Job.

JSTL coverage premature
This book's coverage of JSTL is not useful.JSTL was not yet released when this book was published, so it covers a premature beta version that isn't useful to learn.

Be careful !!!
There're over 100 typos !!!!!!!!
I cannot show the typos here becuase there're many many many mistakes.I don't know why other reviewers don't mention it.
Maybe It's a disadvantage of the author so that Amazon doesn't let the review show up.

I totally don't recommend to buy this book.
You can buy this book after you manster taglibs with other books.:)

Great coverage of Taglibs and JSTL
This book packs a lot into 400 pages, and is the most cutting-edge tags book I've seen. It uses a custom-built contact manager (all the code included) to demonstrate how the various components of a Java web app work together and how to deploy it using Tomcat. The app uses both MySQL and Access as its database, which should satisfy most readers. The illustrations explaining the servlet life cycle were excellent!

The book gives a thorough introduction to the various types of tags (simple, tags with bodies, cooperating, etc) and how they are used. Lots of practical code examples here. The illustrations in this part of the book very clearly explained the how custom tag components work together.

The Jakarta Taglibs coverage is very good, it is not exhaustive, but that's not bad since some of those tags should never see the light of day. I thought the author did a great job of picking the useful ones, explaining them, and providing code to demonstrate how they are used in combination. The coverage of the new Java standard tags is great, too. It includes info on the new expression language and how to change the language your tags use. Again, lots of good code to demonstrate usage.

Coverage of database concepts and tags was particularly good throughout this book. My only suggestion is to include even more code to demonstrate complex uses of the tags, but this would have made the book longer I suppose, and I do like that it is concise and easy to reference. ... Read more

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Textual analysis of the 'Great Isaiah Scroll' from Cave 1 shows that even biblical scrolls can be products of creative reading of the ancient text by scribes. This book explores the nature of scribal changes in the large Isaiah scroll from Qumran (1QIsaa). It offers a detailed examination of the harmonizations, explications and modernizations of the text of Isaiah by the Qumran scribe. The scribal changes in the manuscript betray his conceptual milieu and the various facets of this milieu are elaborated upon. Pulikottil argues that those scribes who were engaged in the production of the biblical scrolls and who quoted from the biblical scrolls were not committed to a standard text. There is no evidence that the biblical scrolls copied at Qumran were made with a view to being followed by the scribe of the non-biblical texts as their standard text, but were made according to the individual notions of the scribes. His work thus takes a new direction in the study of the biblical scrolls from Qumran, different from that of standard text-critical approaches.Biblical scrolls can be now looked at as products of creative reading of the ancient text by scribes and not just as a bundle of scribal errors. ... Read more

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This redbook explains how VisualAge Generator V4 can beused to implement Web-based transaction systems that access enterpriseserver platforms. The implementation process includes Web Transactionprogram development, generation of JavaBeans, JSPs, and programs forthe selected target runtime environment, and configuration of theruntime system.

In Part 1 we describe how VisualAge Generator uses the Web Transactionprogramming model to implement Web-based systems. The inner workingsof the generated JSPs and JavaBeans and the VisualAge GeneratorGatewayServlet are fully described and contrasted with hand-craftedJSP and servlet systems.

The exercises in Part 2 allow you to develop an advanced understandingof how Web Transactions work, supported system structure options,state management implementation options, and how VisualAge GeneratorTemplates can be used to rapidly implement fully functional WebTransaction systems.

In Part 3 you learn how to customize the generated JSPs, providesupport for cascading style sheets (CSS) in a Web Transaction system,and integrate HTML-based Web sites and the generated JSPs for WebTransactions. An integrated approach for the use of WebSphere Studioand the WebSphere Test Environment provided by VisualAge for Java isalso defined.

Part 4 provides you with a step-by-step guide to the process ofinstalling, configuring, building, and running a Web Transactionsystem using the IBM WebSphere Application Server platform on WindowsNT and Web Transactions running on Windows NT, TX Series (Windows NT)and CICS/ESA.

After reading the redbook you will fully understand how to useVisualAge Generator to build and implement an IBM WebSphereApplication Server-based system that accesses enterprise transactionsand data. ... Read more

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Examining the narratives of the two Greek recensions of the Testament of Abraham, this text discusses and compares the genre, characterization, and plot of each recension. Ludlow illustrates that Recension A used comedy and humour to give a sophisticated treatment of death, the figure death, and judgment and mercy. Through a careful comparison of narrative elements and vocabulary correspondences between the manuscripts of each recension, he discusses a possible transmission model for the recensions, concluding that Recension A, written in comic form, preceded Recension B. Recension B then excised most of these comic elements. ... Read more

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Learn JSP fast! With JSP Weekend Crash Course, you can get up to speed on developing dynamic Web sites using Java Server Pages in a single weekend!

JSP Weekend Crash Course explains how to use Java Server Pages to deliver dynamic web content. It explains client-server architecture, installing a JSP development environment, and how to write JSP servlets. Other important topics include: handling exceptions and errors in JSP; effectively using JSP with Java Beans, XML, and JavaScript; tracking users with sessions and cookies; and using the JDBC to set up, connect, and access a database from a JSP web page. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (14)

Not Perfect But Still Good
This book has typos, wrong screen shots and some of the code, line for line doesn't work. For example Session 18 that deals with Includes and Forwards, the code doesn't work as is, some variables were set to null when they should have carried values. However reading through the chapter you would have noticed this and made the correction yourself. So yes, there are errors but the content should equip you to make the necessary corrections in the book. So how do you judge that? For me it was a great way of learning and cementing the techniques I just read about. The flip side to all this is, I used Oracle's JDeveloper as my IDE, I deployed my war files in Tomcat afterwards. All the same, I would not recommend this book for a total beginner.

AWFUL
Had to learn JSP from this book for work.Only good part is I've been paid for the wasted hours I've spent working around the numerous errors in the text/code/EVERYTHING.Worst book I've ever had to learn from.

OK but many typos and wrong screen captures.
The book was helpful in giving an overall flow of how to use JSP to get the big picture. The typos were distracting and the wrong screen captures and references to wrong file names made it hard to follow examples. Didn't anyone proof this book? It is a bit out of date and I would not have bought it if I knew this. However, it did have redeeming points.

This book is pure Garbage
This book has spelling errors, coding errors, screenshots don't match the code, example code does not compile, etc. Stay away from this book!!!

great book badly put together
I know that this book is badly put together. Misplaced screenshots, wrong code, etc. The cd has the good working code. I won't blame the authors but the publisher for the sloppy job. The examples themselves are very good. Explanation is clear. As far as the 15 hours. 21 days, 24 hours, and all other such claims that we see printed on books are just nonsense. Everyone learns at their own pace and you can't speed up the pace.

Would I recommend someone to buy this book. No. I would recommend you to borrow it from a library for 3 weeks. ... Read more

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This proceedings collects papers in the areas of computeralgorithms, databases and parallel processing. The papers werepresented by very prominent computer scientists from Japan andSingapore invited to a three days JSPS-NUS seminar held in Singapore on Dec '94. ... Read more

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Sun's brand-new JSP 1.2 standard delivers unprecedented power for building enterprise-class, platform-independent Web applications. Now, Web professionals can master JSP 1.2 fast, hands-on, by building real applications. This book starts with simple examples, then incrementally introduces more sophisticated projects and techniques -- helping Web developers rapidly learn practical techniques it might otherwise take years to master. This concise book delivers up-to-the-minute coverage of Sun's new JSP 1.2 API standard. Coverage includes: Scripting elements, action elements, directives, the JSP engine, retrieving and sending information, tracking sessions, using JavaBeans, working with custom tags, deploying JSP applications, using WAR files, and much more. All of the book's sample applications are on the Web -- so Web professionals can reuse the code, and see exactly how their pages should look and work. For all Web professionals who want to master JSP as quickly as possible. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (2)

Great overview at a glance
I bought this book to read on the Airplane heading to an interview for a job that was primarily writing JSP pages.They knew I didn't know JSP but I still wanted to have intelligent conversation during the interview about JSPs..and it worked.This book visits the gist of the technology and provides basic examples.I highly recommend it to someone who is just looking for the "skinny" on JSPs..

BTW...I was offered and accepted the job

Useful if you know some HTML and Java
Not very detailed, but will give you basics of using JSP very quickly. Good book! ... Read more

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This book is a practical teach-yourself manual of program development based on the Jackson approach to program and system design. It is both a student textbook and a training manual for programmers, proceeding from simple batch and interactive programs to complex multi-user real-time applications and using numerous worked-through examples of the kind found in data processing (DP) environments. The core of the book is the Jackson Structured Programming (JSP) design method, all aspects of which are explained in detail. Other tasks in the program development process, eg. coding and testing, are explained in relation to JSP, and a final chapter extends the exposition into the realm of system development. Each chapter in the book has a section of exercises to which outline solutions are provided in an appendix. ... Read more

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¿The examples in the book are drawn from real life, and show you how to effectively use Java components to develop enterprise-level database applications step by step.¿¿David A. RosenbergVice President, Java Platform GroupOracle Corporation ... Read more

Customer Reviews (10)

Outdated
Basically this is the only book available that deals with EJB and Oracle Application Server.But the book is outdated.Basically handles only EJB1.0 spec, so the deployment descriptors are old.It does not cover Entity Beans.So if you are using Oralcle 8.1.7 or Oracle 9 i App Server, this book is out dated for you. The flow of topics could have been better. Any way we dont have much choice, as this is the only book on this topic.

Highly Professional Book
Last year, I found the Oracle8i SQLJ Programming book (by Morisseau-Leroy, Solomon, and Momplaisir) while surfing for a book on SQLJ. I must say that the Oracle8i SQLJ book is an excellent book indeed, and the ONLY worth reading book on SQLJ. When, I saw on amazon.com the advertising about the Oracle8i Java Component Book (by the same authors), I quickly purchased it. So far, I have read the first three chapters. The first chapter two chapters introduce the concepts ofcomponent-based applications using JDBC and SQLJ and Web applications, while the third one takes you straight in EJB. A note of caution, the Oracle8i Java Component Book is an advanced book on component concepts and assumes that the reader knows SQL, PL/SQL, Java, JDBC, SQLJ, and Oracle database. Extremely informative. I strongly recommend this book.

Outstanding Book
Geared towards Java programmers that need to access an Oracle database, this book starts with well explained concepts of what components are all about, and slowly and surely takes the reader to distributed objects using EJB and CORBA as well as JSP client-side applications that can use EJB and CORBA components. More importantly, the book allows readers to learn both JDBC and SQLJ. Very informative for Oracle DBA who needs information regarding EJB and CORBA components that can reside in an Oracle8i database. Note also, that java code presented are JDK1.x and JDK1.2 compatible. I strongly recommend this book.

A truly outstanding book.
This is a truly outstanding book on Enterprise JavaBeans, CORBA, and JavaServer Pages as they appear in the Oracle8i environment.However, this book is written so as to be useful in other environments as well.The treatment in this book is based on the presentation of detailed and clearly written examples that teach the reader how to implement and use the Java components.The book starts out with two clearly written chapters that introduce distributed components and Web processing, respectively.This is followed by three chapters on EJB, four chapters on CORBA, and three chapters on JSP.The book is filled with necessary information on how to work with the Oracle8i implementation of CORBA, EJB, and JSP, including information on caveats and bugs that you won't find in the manuals.According to her author bio, Julie Basu is the person who actually implemented the Oracle8i version of JSP, so that we are getting the information straight from the horse's mouth.If you want to avoid frustrating hours spent in trying to use these systems on Oracle8i, I highly recommend buying this book.

An excellent book
This is an excellent book.This book shows how to do component programming in EJB, CORBA, and JSP using Java.It is full of information, including information on JTA (which I have been unable to locate anywhere else) and the differences between JTA and JTS.It has many examples of component programming (including full programs) .The authors also clarify the different types of sessions in CORBA (a somewhat confusing topic for me that I can finally grasp).The introduction to JSP alone is worth the price of the book, but it also explains how to do component programming using JSP in EJB and CORBA.It is well-written and well-organized.I highly recommend it. ... Read more