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What are the legal rights to ancient documents of editors, archaeologists, curators, or modern states? In the light of recent controversies, this collection emphasizes the status of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The Dead Sea Scrolls were found in Palestine, recovered in Jordan, and largely edited by an international Christian team who prevented public access to unpublished manuscripts. Subsquently, the state of Israel, which had already purchased many of the Scrolls, has assumed responsibility for all of them. Most recently, one scroll editor has claimed copyright on his reconstruction, instigating a lawsuit and introducing serious implications for future Scrolls scholarship. This volume looks at international copyright and property rights as they affect archaeologists, editors and curators, but focuses on the issue of 'authorship' of the Scrolls, both published and unpublished, and the contributors include legal experts as well as many of the major figures in recent controversies, such as Hershel Shanks, John Strugnell, Geza Vermes and Emanuel Tov. ... Read more

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Covers the entire process of building Java-based Websites. Focuses on the most powerful open source tools for enterprise Web development JSP, JDBC, and JavaBeans: practical Java server side solutions Cover Apache, Tomcat, and PostgreSQL installation and configuration. Softcover. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (6)

No depth
First off, the book has a disturbing amount of typos and grammatic errors. It touches a lot of subjects without really digging deep into any of them. Too many references to unexplained or poorly-explained concepts. This book isn't useful to people who have no knowledge of the subject. To those who have some web experience, it provides a laconic tutorial of the discussed subjects.

This must be for Experienced JSP programmers
I bought it because it was cheap and I could not afford JSP Complete Reference at that time. Anyway, if you know Java maybe it is best to get an introductory JSP book prior to starting this book.

It gets very confuse, because it throws many information at once and does not explain it in detail. Instead, it is left as known by the reader. The book calls it self Complete Guide, and yet it covers every important aspect of JSP, it fails to teach beginners.

I had to bought a new book and also get a few on line tutorials so it is as complete as it calls it self.

I wonder that I consider it because even though I am intermediate Java programmer, I am completely new to TOMCAT and JSP. Maybe I will change my mind after learning JSP and then being able to understand this book as it should.

LATER EDIT ( 2010 ): Please use ASP.NET and C# instead of any form of Java web programming.
Java is very cool I admit, but not for web.

A waste of time
Not only does the author give you only 1/3 of the code for the project in the book, but there is no web address to access the code either. You are left with a lot of wasted time, a mess of unused code, and nothing but confusion. Don't waste your time like I did.

JSP and JAVA
look at 1st a few chaps, could find myself getting more confused. Symply saying the usage of params as well as sort of "why". I could not say "I did my Apache-Tomcat config well fit into each other", even if I read and read... If this were valuable to people who's new to Apache tomcat, it should have had sort of explanation to default configs made by initial Apache/Tomcat installation. To make this book yours truly, reader'd better have sort of experience in Apache/tomcat. Every thing I wanted to know was explained or touched, but I can not figure out how to do. To do is to believe. not that to read to believe. I don't want to kill my time any more reading this, at least at this moment. If you don't have even basic-basic-basic.. commands or concept, think about buying this after you read steb-by-step book first. This is NOT the STEP-BY-STEP book.

Good book, but no source code...
I liked the book very much. I found that it provided great coverage of JSP, JavaBeans, and Servlets. But I was frustrated to learn there was no source for code examples. The appendix lists the code, but there is no CD or web site to get the files. The publisher offered no help and there is no contact information for the author. I won't buy another book without access to source code. ... Read more

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The goal of this report is to assist managers in gauging a company's financial performance vis--vis firms competing in the same sector, at the global level.In particular, this report covers JSP CORP., CHIYODA-KU, JAPAN.

With the globalization of markets, greater foreign competition, and the reduction of entry barriers, it becomes all the more important to benchmark a company's performance against other firms on a worldwide basis.Doing so, however, is not an obvious task.First, one needs to find firms competing in the same sector.Second, one needs to control for exchange rate volatility.Finally, one needs use comparable financial standards.This report overcomes these issues and gives full financial benchmarks vis--vis worldwide competitors who are present in the same narrow industrial classification. Benchmarks cover assets, liabilities, income and ratios.Since our reports are printed on demand, the figures available are for the latest quarter and are the most up to date available (4 reports are produced each year). ... Read more

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Engineer your way to excellence! This professional resource explains in full detail how to build VoiceXML-based applications using real-world programs you can adapt for your own projects. The book includes three full-scale, enterprise-level applications complete with all source code. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (2)

Cut the crap
This is a no crap book. I didnt need a tome that would tell me what i want. I know what i need to do i just needed a book that would help in the How To part. Some of the application discussed in this book are of commercial quality in their design and funtionality. the stuff on the voice command performace shows the author's experiance on the matter. I could have done with some more stuff on IP telephony but the application discussed here elaborates a design which is common more or less in a lot of IP telephony apps. Nothing really usefull though but you can realy take the concept and the code further as you please and gives you something to think about. The very presence of the IP telephony introductory chapter in the books kind of completes the book and the discussion. I wouldnt mind though if this book had a few more pages and completed many application that i though were on the verge on being turn key solutions.

Bark with little bite
While this is the only book I could find with direct reference to VoiceXML, ASP and SALT, it was a dissapointment.The title says VoiceXML 2.0, but the major examples are all given in 1.0 syntax.There are many errors and the formatting is poor.Finally, there is no discussion about mixed-initiative applications or natural language processing. ... Read more

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Text and CD-ROM offering instruction in Java programming with XML and JSP APIs. Shows how Java can be used to solve a variety of Web site problems, and to speed up development and simplify maintenance. The CD-ROM comes with a sample catalog in XML, and the code needed to accomplish a number of e-commerce tasks. System requirements not listed. Softcover. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (5)

A Monty Python guide to Java & XML
Firstly the examples do not try to explain which code example they relate to on the CD rom. You have to distribute the code on the cd rom to paths on your web server, so unless you are already a dab hand at configuring a JSP server you cannot begin, the book doesn't help you with this, or anything else, in fact I would suggest the only people who may be able to decipher this book are expert professional Java programmers who must also have a knack for interpreting rambling babble. Avoid this book at all costs, talking of cost, cut to the Author - tropical beach - pina colada.

A Monty Python guide to Java & XML
Firstly the examples do not try to explain which code example they relate to on the CD rom. You have to distribute the code on the cd rom to paths on your web server, so unless you are already a dab hand at configuring a JSP server you cannot begin, the book doesn't help you with this, or anything else, in fact I would suggest the only people who may be able to decipher this book are expert professional Java programmers who must also have a knack for interpreting rambling babble. Avoid this book at all costs, talking of cost, cut to the Author - tropical beach - pina colada.

Not for the novice, full of bugs and codes don't work
The book looked great and I thought that I can learn how to build my own web site within 30 days, especially since I had a fair amount of knowledge in HTML, Java, UNIX, C++, MFC etc.My only setback was that I have never done XML and JSP programming, nor used Tomcat web server before.

The book gives very little information about paths to put the example codes, and insufficient information on the server setup.After visiting the authors' web site and setting up the codes where, I believe, they should be, the main codes and servlets do not work.

I discovered some bugs in the files and fixed them.Yet the codes (except the HTML) still do not work.

Six weeks after buying the book I am no nearer learning XML and JSP.How can you learn how to use these languages when the codes that accompany the book do not work?

Lots of code that is not useful for real applications
Though the book contains a lot of code, it becomes evident as you go through the book, that the author has not thought about using them in real world situations. All applications use DOM for XML parsing and Servlets for presentation of the content. A few JSPs are thrown in may be because the title says so!

Buy this book if you got a lot of money!

This book does not contain practical examples!
The authors through this book explain how XML, Java servlets (andsometimes JSPs) could be used together in applications like Shopping cart and News Bulletin board.

Though the book contains a lot of code, two things are disappointing. First, DOM is implicitly suggested as a preferred means for working with XML documents even in cases where simple SAX parsing would do. Secondly, JAXP 1.0 API's beta classes like XmlDocument are extensively used in the examples. Both these are not very useful in the real world scenarios.

Though the book gives an impression from the title that it will be using JSPs to generate the presentation layer, the examples heavily use servlets with "hard coded HTML" in them for this purpose.

I happen to have a copy of Benoit Machall's "Applied XML Solutions" with me with which I cannot help comparing this book with. Applied XML Solutions explains similar examples in a practical way with simpler code as well as using open source software and stabilized APIs to achieve the same results.

So, these are a few things to consider before buying this book! ... Read more

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An overview of the new server-side Java platform - Java 2 Enterprise Edition - as it relates to building n-tier web applications.It covers the building blocks (Servlets, JSP, EJB, JDBC, RMI, JNDI, CORBA) then goes into special design considerations for server side programming, (including resource pooling and component based design) before finally discussing future possibilities opened up by Jini and JavaSpaces technology.

In a world where, increasingly, corporate IT development is Web application development - ASP, PHP, CGI and ISAPI are all viable options.Now, so is the Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition, and that's good news because server-side Java is portable across Windows, Linux, UNIX and MacOS and compatible with a wide range of Web Servers (IIS, Apache, Netscape Enterprise Server) and Application Servers from Sun, IBM and others.

What does all this mean for you?Java provides technologies to allow for server side processing, dynamic page content generation and dynamic presentation.With these comprehensive, platform independent Java class libraries you can join together the disparate pieces of your business - data, applications and platforms - to form a coherent whole.

Java 2 Enterprise Edition - announced by Sun in June 1999 - makes Java an entire platform, not just another language and this is the first book that seriously covers it.Amazon.com Review
Wrox specializes in books written by programmers, forprogrammers. Professional Java Server Programming, a volume ondeveloping Java-based Web applications, is no different. All the 12authors are developers and consultants--including some who've beenpart of Sun's own Java team.

The Web is becoming more and more away of delivering applications rather than just static Web pages. Javais becoming more and more popular as a tool for building Webapplications, thanks to Java servlets and Java ServerPages. Professional Java Server Programming is a big book fullof code samples and real-world experience.

Starting with agrounding in Web application development and technologies, the bookintroduces the various concepts of using Java to deliver Webcontent--as well as helping to give you the tools you need to workaround the limitations of Web servers and Web browsers. You'll alsolearn how to develop complex database-driven applications--and how towork faster. Since this is a book on the cutting edge of Javadevelopment, you'll also find sections on using Java with XMLdocuments and LAP directory servers, as well as Enterprise JavaBeans. There's even a good examination of the next generation of Javatechnologies--Jini and JavaSpaces--with a look at how these can beused in Web applications.

This is a superb and extremely practicalbook. If you're building Java-based Web server applications, this is abook you need to have next to your terminal, if only for the 300 pagesof reference material in the appendices! --Simon Bisson,amazon.co.uk ... Read more

Customer Reviews (82)

Not for serious developers.
I would reccomend this book only to people who are new to Java Programming and want an overall treatise with something on everything possible server side. But for those who are already in this field for a while and want to build on their knowledge this book would be a big disappointment. The other main drawback of this book is its bulkiness.

This book does cover some of the topics like servlets in detail good enough for a serious programmer but most of the other topics introduced are not exhaustive enough for a serious developer.

To sum it up, rather buy books on individual topics and build a solid base than adorn your bookself with fancy Wrox books.

Not For Professionals
I bought this book a few months ago and I found out that it covers the basics of J2EE.Imagine 10+ authors.Each talks about their own thing and then they slap it together and call it a Wrox Published book.My gripes with this book are:
1.Unfocused.Topics jump from rather quickly and do not ease you into one another.
2.Code is filled with example codes that do not work.
3.Did not stay with one topic and cover it enough.
4.Price

Good things about the book:
1.Has a pretty nice red cover so I know Wrox made it.
2.It's pretty big so if a rat manages to get in the house, I can squash it with the book, not that I would do such a thing.
3.Makes people go "WOW" when they say, "you actually read that whole thing??" given the number of pages.

Unfortunately, this is not one book that I've been hitting on for help at all.It's usually the last resort to look up information since I usually find the answers I need elsewhere.The material provided in this book is too spread out and not covered enough in detail to be of much use.

However, for those who just want to get a feel for the J2EE technologies, I say you would enjoy this book.But it would outlive its usefullness after some time.

Great book
Over all this is a great book.It give you the overall idea on Java Server Programming.If you really serious on specific topic, you have to buy another one.It is good for the beginner to grap the general idea on Java Server Programming.

Not for serious developers
I would reccomend this book only to people who are new to Java Programming and want an overall treatise with something on everything possible server side.But for those who are already in this field for a while and want to build on their knowledge this book would be a big disappointment. The other main drawback of this book is its bulkiness.

This book does cover some of the topics like servlets in detail good enough for a serious programmer but most of the other topics introduced are not exhaustive enough for a serious developer.

To sum it up, rather buy books on individual topics and build a solid base than adorn your bookself with fancy Wrox books.

Ok as an overview but too bulky
I guess I shouldn't expect a book written by 12 different people to be too cohesive but this book was very disjointed. They tried to cover too many topics with varying levels of depth so while this may have been a good book were it intended to be an overview of the technologies, it ends up uneven with topic coverage quality ranging from average to poor. The case studies and plethora of appendixes mostly bulked up the book rather than adding value. ... Read more

Product Description
Thousands of developers have discovered that JavaServer Pages represent the optimal solution for cross-platform web-based development. Now that they've mastered the basics of JSP, many are seeking to deepen and strengthen their expertise. In Advanced JavaServer Pages, best-selling Java author and former JavaSoft developer David Geary delivers the sophisticated enterprise-class techniques they're searching for. Geary tackles JavaServer Pages 1.1 with the same exhaustive, authoritative approach that made his Graphic Java books so successful. He begins with a thorough review of JSP elements, servlets, and JavaBeans; then introduces custom and body tags; and offers sophisticated insights into JSP-based Web application design. Advanced JavaServer Pages includes detailed chapters on internationalization, security, databases, e-mail integration, and Enterprise JavaBeans. For every Java developer interested in creating server-side programs with JavaServer Pages and Sun's servlet technologies.Amazon.com Review
Aimed at the more experienced Java Web developer, Advanced JavaServer Pages covers leading-edge techniques for writing more maintainable Web applications in Java. Stressing custom tag libraries and other reusable components, this book is all you need to take your programming skills to the next level.

There are any number of good introductory texts on JavaServer Pages. This title distinguishes itself with techniques recommended by Sun for building better Web applications. Backed up by the author's own collection of custom tag libraries, which allow ordinary Web designers to program with tags instead of Java code, this text covers all the bases from getting started with tags to more advanced techniques. Early examples of tag libraries include a variety of ways to validate data in HTML forms. Throughout, the book deftly describes installing tag libraries, and shows how HTML designers can use custom tags after Java developers have created them.

Readers also get best practices for JSP and Beans, which is a big plus. Author David Geary presents both Model 1 and Model 2 architectures. (In Model 1, JavaBeans are used to present data to front-end JSPs. In Model 2, a more sophisticated set of Java classes using the Model-View-Controller design pattern allows even greater flexibility.) Sample code for using JSP and JavaBeans for internationalized code (including French, German, and Chinese) will show you how to take your Web application to worldwide markets. The book concludes with a working case study of an online fruit stand (using several languages) and applies the techniques presented earlier on.

All in all, with its mix of practical advice and some very useful techniques for getting the most out of JSP and Java for Web applications, Advanced JavaServer Pages fills a valuable niche for any serious Java developer who wants to see some of the best ways to create Web applications today. --Richard Dragan

Topics covered:

• Custom tag tutorial (including JSP and TLD files)
• The tag life cycle
• Tag attributes
• Tag classes
• Body tag handlers
• Scripting variables
• Nested tags
• HTML forms and JavaBeans
• Validating form data with Beans and custom tags
• Templates and custom tags for defining regions within Web pages
• Model 1 and Model 2 basics
• Sample classes and tags for Model 2 framework (including samples for managing logins)
• Event handling
• Sensitive form resubmissions
• Internationalization techniques (including resource bundles and locales)
• Security issues (including basic, digest, form-based, and SSL authentication)
• Custom tags for JDBC database programming
• Database connection pooling, XML, and JavaBeans
• The Simple API for XML (SAX)
• The Document Object Model (DOM) and custom tags for these APIs
• XSLT and XML
• Case study for an internationalized online fruit stand
• Appendix on Servlet filters and the Servlet 2.3 specification

Customer Reviews (24)

Good Book-Good Price-Good Value
Title says it all. The Book is for JSP developers looking for something more advanced in terms of web page development. Good find.

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.

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.

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.

excellent introduction. examples have lots of code errors.
Enjoyed the book and appreciated the approach. i did not however enjoy debugging the code or attempting to figure out which examples were which. could use a good section on integration, i.e. applciation server, database and related topics.

definitley got me thinking about MVC so i'll be looking forward to the Struts book by Goodwill. ... Read more

Product Description
The only visual guide to JSP, JavaServer Pages: Your visual blueprint for designing dynamic content with JSP offers you a visual alternative to learning to write JSP documents. This book is geared towards intermediate to advanced users with experience in writing HTML documents.

The Visual learning series' unique method of organizing screen shots and text on a 2-page spread makes it easy for you to learn new concepts and tasks. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (10)

Returning my copy!
Like all the other books in its series, this book is simple and easy to follow.It starts with a brief introduction to Java programming before diving into JSP material.The topics that it covers include: using variables, creating and handling forms, dealing with cookies, adding javabeans, interfacing databases, error handling, custom tags, file handling and servlets.
However, it covers each topic ever so briefly, often ignoring critical details that would leave you unable to make your page display at all!For example, in the Javabeans section, the book tells me to look up my web server for where I store Javabeans.Generally, this book follows a narrow track of possibilities and is best utilized as a throw-away training manual.

Don't buy it...I'll give it to you, if you want.
It's not for beginners.You will need other books to understand it.Most pages are too basic, and it suddenly introduces higher level stuff from nowhere....The technical support will refer you ... - just use the website instead!

Worst book I've ever read
The 'beginners' are not only the readers of this book, but also the auther & technical support.As other books they've published, it's not for 'beginners'.It's better to use SUN's wesite (which they seem to refer every time they receive questions from readers) than to buy this book.

Good book for beginners but not for professionals
I've learned a lot from this book as a beginner.For a short time you can learn the basics of jsp.But this book is not for professionals.But for beginners I gave it 5 stars.

Java Server Pages Read Less, Learn More
I read all 5 reviews and I agree with them in what they all are saying. I loved the quick reference book style and this book explained things in more detail than Java Server Pages from Scratch. Its a great quick reference that won't get you bogged down on the details of mastering each topic just yet. You will need another JSP book after you read this one. This is a good intro book. I do think this book is introductory level if you have some prior web programming experience in another other than Java so that you are atleast familiar with setting up servers, etc. If not than I see why you thought this book was advanced. I am greatful the authors wrote this book in that it really helped me break through the understanding of this complex language. ... Read more

Product Description
This IBM redbook provides design guidelines for developing e-business applications based on servlets, JavaServer Pages (JSP) and Enterprise JavaBean (EJB) technologies.

The guidelines are based on WebSphere Application Server Advanced Edition. The redbook describes the concepts of workload balancing through the use of a network dispatcher and clones of the Application Server.

The redbook proposes a design of Web applications based on design patterns, such as the model-view-controller paradigm and the command framework. In this context, the usage of enterprise beans, including access beans, associations, and collections is explored in detail, and a set of EJB-based design patterns is described.

Part 1, "Choosing appropriate Web technollogies" provides guidelines on how to design specific components of an application. It also explains why and when a designer should move business logic from JavaBeans to a more powerful technology like Enterprise JavaBeans.

Part 2, "Design patterns and guidelines" is a set of design patterns for building e-business applications. Readers can use the information directly from a chapter and apply it in their own designs. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (2)

Disappointing
This book compact in volume covers several WEB application development related topics but does it in a quite superficial manner. It reads like a bunch of articales talking about various tips and tricks but does not give a fundamental understadingof the development process with WebSphere. In other words, if you are new to the WebSphere environment I would not recommend to buy this book.

The better books I would recommend is the WebSphere V3.5 Handbook

Good resource for some of WebSphere Best practices
Touches many interesting topics but meant to be read with other Redbooks. ... Read more

Product Description
Web developers and page authors who use JavaServer Pages (JSP) know that it is much easier and efficient to implement web pages without reinventing the wheel each time. In order to shave valuable time from their development schedules, those who work with JSP have created, debugged, and used custom tags-a set of programmable actions that provide dynamic behavior to static pages-paving the way towards a more common, standard approach to using Java technology for web development. The biggest boost to this effort however has only recently arrived in the form of a standard set of tag libraries, known as the JSTL, which now provides a wide range of functionality and gives web page authors a much more simplified approach to implementing dynamic, Java-based web sites.

JSTL: Practical Guide for JSP Programmers is a timely resource for anyone interested in doing large-scale J2EE application development. It sticks to the main features of the JSTL so that developers don't have to sift through unnecessary details to begin using the tags and working with the expression language. Sue Spielman's straight-forward, practical approach is enhanced with numerous code samples and insightful descriptions to make learning the JSTL a quickly and easily accomplished task.

* Written by a best-selling author with a wealth of development experience and recognition in the Java community.
* Covers the core elements of the JSTL including the four standard tag libraries (core, internationalization/format, XML, and SQL) and expression language.
* Includes a reference section for all of the tabs and attributes contained in the JSTL.
* Via a companion web site, provides downloadable code for the code samples in the book. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (6)

Great Book
The book was exactly as described. Is in great condition and saved me a bunch of money instead of buying it through my campus bookstore. Delivery was fast. Will order from them again.

Not very helpful. Not recommended at all.
This book just wasn't very helpful. Not much depth, sparse, sporadic. Everytime I ran into a JSTL issue/question on my project I ran to this book hoping that maybe this time it would provide answers. It never did. Very disappointing and frustrating. Look somewhere else.

Shallow
This book is potentially promising.
Short, concise, inexpensive. Can it be possible?
Not really.
The author skirts the major issues of getting started, forwarding readers to the 'easy installation instructions' on the Jakarta site, on all matters trivial and not so trivial.
The content itself is mediocre at best, written offhand and leaves you reading and re-reading every section to check whether you missed something when there really was very little there to begin with.
This book smells of a rush-to-publish and under-editting and under-testing. Steer clear.

The best JSTL book on the market
JSTL provides a set of common tag libraries for JSP programmers.This book explains the JSTL and it does it extremely well.In about 200 pages, the book covers what the JSTL is, what to use it for, how to use it, and gives plenty of examples.

The start of the book covers the basics of tag libraries and explains why we need JSTL.Next, the basics of JSTL and the expression language are covered. The one small flaw in the book is that the expression language could have been covered in a bit more detail.The rest of the book covers each of the tags (actions) broken up into the separate libraries.The core, XML, internationalization and formatting, and SQL actions are each given their own chapters.The author doesn't just cover the tags but also provides enough background information to insure that you can understand how the tags are used.For example, in the XML chapter, the author starts by explaining the different technologies around XML and then shows how the XML actions can be used to simplify the task of using XML in your JSPs.The SQL chapter explains why you would never want to use the SQL actions before she discusses the actions themselves.The book ends with a "quick reference" section.

Sue Spielman has a very easy writing style that makes reading her books a pleasure.Her book is short and complete, a very difficult combination to pull off.

Get started with JSTL rapidly
This might be one of the most effective IT book I have ever read.It's short but comprehensive.All four libraries are covered and covered quite well.

The first few chapters provide an introduction to JSTL, including the reasons and a few brief examples.The chapter on the EL seemed to be the weakest chapter, but it was detailed enough to get a solid start with using it.

Each library has a pretty good sized chapter with coverage of all of the tags and their most common attributes.The code samples covered what you are most likely to do with the tags, although I would have like to see some uncommon uses as well.The chapter on the SQL tags, the most controversial library, included her opinions on why you would use them.

Overall, this book provides a quick source of information for learning JSTL.It will also make a great reference to have when you are writing your JSP pages. ... Read more

Product Description
Meta-programming, or writing programs that customize, guide and modify other programs, is not a very new idea (LISP programmers have been doing it for decades) - but XML gives it a profoundly new twist.

XML greatly increases the ability of the user to exercise control over computer programs, by editing easily understandable text files. These programs know as little as possible about what they are actually being used to do. Instead, their structure and behavior are described with XML in domain-specific languages, and the programs "interpret" the descriptions.Amazon.com Review
Aimed at developers with some previous Java experience, Professional Java XML Programming with Servlets and JSP shows how to combine two of today's hottest technologies to create highly customizable, data-driven Web applications. Besides a leading-edge tour of several important Java APIs, this book also contains an effective, in-depth tutorial for really understanding XML.

This main objective is to introduce a complete "application frameworks" for Java that uses servlets, JSPs, JDBC (for databases), and XML for customizing Web pages without changing source code. (This strategy lets anyone familiar with XML, SQL, and/or JSPs design new Web pages.) The "soft" or "generic" approach advocated here goes well beyond the basics and will help you rethink how Web applications work. The authors present the basics of each API as they build their solution. There are a variety of easy-to-understand sample servlets here--from a simple phone number database to an e-commerce shopping cart, and a servlet that incorporates JavaMail to send e-mail.

After a challenging guide to languages, grammars, and parsers (the underlying theory behind XML), the authors return to the practical side of things with excellent coverage of several current tools for XML, like Sun's Java parser and the Simple API for XML (SAX).

Even if you don't rely on the authors' solution completely for your own projects, this challenging and intelligent text shows off some useful possibilities for servlets combined with XML. For any Java programmer, the tour of basic servlet development and leading-edge XML support makes for an attractive choice for learning about these two very promising technologies. --Richard Dragan

Topics covered: Java servlet basics, 3-tiered architectures, JDBC and servlet APIs, sample custom framework for servlets, HTML basics, database connection pooling, language, grammars and parsers, context-free and context-sensitive grammars, XML and SGML basics, XHMTL vs. HTML, XML documents, XML namespaces, entities and DTDs, elements and attributes, the XML Document Object Model (DOM), the Simple API for XML (SAX), Sun's Java XML toolkit, JSPs and JavaBean basics, JavaMail APIs, XSLT and XPath. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (30)

not for novice
I love this book but obviously it is not for novice.

Good concepts Bad Execution
I bought this book on impulse based on the title alone. Unfortunately this was the first book I bought from this particular publisher. God, I hope the others are not this badly organized.

As a professional Java programmer who has used all of the tachnologies in this book, I find that there are some good concepts here in terms of high-level OO design. Unfortunately, the organization of the book requires you to read through a lot of superfluous verbiage to get to the meat.

The criticisms mentioned in other reviews are valid and I won't repeat them here, except to reiterate that the author's academic roots do shine through on this book. The tone is written as if you were sitting in a lecture hall with all the time in world to discuss these concepts and the code examples are not written for performance or high volume traffic on a web site. As a Java professional who writes almost exclusively on the server-side, I found this iritating. There isn't enough time to wade through this book to get what you need when a project is due.

Very Confusing Book
I am a professional programmer with a background in C++ Windows programming who started learning JAVA a year ago.I bought this book with the intention of learning how to leverage XML in JAVA apps and servlets.I made it through the first chapter just fine and then all heck broke loose.I could not get the examples to work, the text became as clear as mud and I had to put the book down in disgust because every other chapter in the book lynchpins on knowledge from the previous one.This would not be a good buy in my humble opinion.

Certainly not for professional developers!
After reading through this book, I was not sure if this book is focused on Java programming or XML or Servlets and JSP programming, although it claims to be about how to integrate all these technologies together.The book overall is not very well organized and it is tough sometimes to really make out what the authors are trying to convey. As for the example code, it is not difficult to make out that the authors are from academia and certainly are not developers who hack it out in the real world.

Quite a bad book, really.
I think this isn't a very good obok. First, it's not written in a very clear way, I simply didn't understand everything in the book. However, the biggest reason not to buy this book, YOU HAVE TO READ ALL/MOST OF THE CHAPTERS TO UNDERSTAND PARTS. Why is that bad? Many people, including me, like to read only relevant chapters. For example, if you already know some of the stuff, you skip directly to the right chapter and read from there. You can't really do it here, since the authors create lots of classes they constantly use in later chapters. Thus, it makes the book terribly inconvenient. Maybe this is only my impression, I didn't read all of the book, but after a few chapters that I found myself reading stuff I *DIDN'T WANT TO READ*, I just abandoned this book and moved to another one. ... Read more

Product Description
JavaServer Pages (JSP) is an established and popular technology for building dynamic web applications that can access databases and provide an interactive experience for your website's users. This book uses the new version of JSP – JSP 2.0 – which makes JavaServer Pages more powerful and much easier to program.

In this book you'll learn how the web works and how JSP fits in, how to get input from the user and create web pages "on the fly", and how JavaBeans, components, and tag libraries allow you to make your code more readable and easier to maintain. The book also covers how to handle errors in your code, the best ways of designing web applications, and finishes with a comprehensive case study that builds a browser-based project management tool easily adaptable to many businesses.

JSP is built on top of the Java programming language, so this book will additionally teach you the fundamentals of Java alongside JSP itself. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (6)

jsp books
Book was in very good condition and its almost like new and shipped very fast. Was happy with shipping time and book condition.

Pretty Good
Pretty good book.It is for people with little or no java experience.Found several typos and code errors that I didn't find any documentation for!

P.S.The source code IS available for download at http://support.apress.com/

No source code.
The book says that the source code can be downloaded from wrox.com. But that is not true. The book does not have a CD, and the source is not wrox.com. I have not had any luck with the forums or support at Wrox Without the source code, this book is not worth the price, or the time.

Simple tutorials
The book is supposed to serve as tutorials for people who even don't know Java programming language. It could live up for it promise only if authors would care not to make so many typos and mistakes sprinkled throughout the text. Some examples are impossible to get to work correctly unless reader is experienced in reading and understanding specifications to Servlets and JSP. One example is writing Simple Tag in chapter 9. It will never work the way the authors presented it.
Some techniques are used inconsistently, for example, scriplets are used in sample code where more advanced ExpressionLanguage or Standard Tag Library would do. JSTL tags are not clearly explained and can be confusing to understand and difficult to memorize.
Despite limitations mentioned above, the book manages to teach JSP. At least for Java programmers, the book is easy to read through at good pace and pick up fairy good understanding of JSP and even Struts framework. It would not make good reference though and the determined learner will need a lot of other material on the subject.

This book !
This is best for begineers! The examples are there whenever you need it.
You won't need a have a SAT to understand this book. ... Read more

Product Description
The term e-commerce encompasses a spectrum of trading interactions from the business-to-consumer (B2C) transactions that facilitate Web-based retail trade, to business-to-business (B2B) data exchange that increases supply chain efficiency. This book shows how the Java platform and Java technologies can be, and have been, employed to develop solutions that address these scenarios.

To allow readers to gain a full appreciation of the diversity of topics involved in building e-commerce solutions, the book consists of five main sections. We begin by looking at the general area of e-business and the commercial considerations surrounding such application development. We then look at the Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE), XML, and XSLT. Building on this, we discuss the development of B2C sites for online selling and the design of effective portal sites. Our fourth section is devoted to the expanding area of B2B commerce where XML and XSLT are proving invaluable. Finally, we highlight new developments in the area of m-commerce and see how Java technologies can be used to facilitate trading anywhere. A particular feature of the book is the inclusion of case studies that provide hard won information on the challenges of building effective B2C and B2B applications in the real world. Amazon.com Review
Ideal for IT managers and developers working on e-commerce projects, Professional Java E-Commerce shows off how to design and program working e-stores and other enterprise Web applications powered by Java. This book is a guide to the nuts and bolts of Java used for e-commerce sites, and it also surveys the management and design issues that any organization will face when doing business online.

The first sections give an IT manager's perspective on integrating e-commerce initiatives into your organization, whether they're B2B, B2C, or m-commerce initiatives. The coverage achieves considerable depth. As well as terms you've already heard about, the team authors also look at B2B2C and C2B2C scenarios. They cover project planning for successful e-commerce software development and today's n-tiered architectures for scalability, and provide a quite thorough discussion of the security issues surrounding e-commerce.

The book then delves into actual sample source code for a variety of e-commerce applications, beginning with a traditional online store (for selling computers) with a product catalog and a shopping basket. Written with simple JSP, this site gets enhanced later using state-of-the-art Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) for better scalability and performance. Hands-on advice for using tools like BEA WebLogic Application Server (something of an industry standard) will help you apply your knowledge to real projects. Further examples look at real-world instances of corporate e-commerce in action, including working code for a portal Web site, a supply chain application (using XML), and a workflow Web application. The book closes with newer technologies like m-commerce (in which business is conducted through wireless devices) and smart cards.

The working source code and real-world perspective help distinguish this text in its presentation of some emerging Java enterprise-level technologies. For many working Java developers or managers, Professional Java E-Commerce can help shift the odds in your favor for that next big e-commerce project with its mix of canny advice and very practical sample source code that shows the right ways to use Java to write several high-end enterprise e-commerce solutions. --Richard Dragan

Topics covered:

• E-commerce business strategy and planning
• Types and business impact of e-commerce (including B2C, B2B, B2B2C, C2C, C2B2C, and m-commerce)
• Business requirements for e-commerce applications (including technological and business considerations)
• E-commerce project planning (software project management and process)
• Guide to architecting e-commerce applications (technical requirements and architecture)
• Overview of the Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) and its support for e-commerce
• Design approaches and components for e-commerce
• Introduction to XML and XSLT
• Security issues for online business (including Java security, authentication, and authorization)
• Sample B2C online computer store
• Usability issues (searching, feedback, and membership and internationalization)
• Data validation techniques for user input (client-side and server-side options)
• Adding Enterprise JavaBeans to the e-commerce site
• Using BEA WebLogic
• Case study for a custom portal
• Case study for a B2B solution using XML/XSLT to share data between systems in the supply chain
• Mass integration with the Java Message Service (JMS)
• Introduction to application service providers (ASPs)
• Case studies for a workflow application and a corporate purchasing Web site
• Introduction to m-commerce
• WAP and WML
• Smart cards
• XML and XSLT primer

Customer Reviews (8)

Excellent coverage
This is the only book that covers such a wide range of issues relating to the application of Java to e-commerce. Although there are subjects that experienced users would certainly prefered to see treated in more depth this is an invaluable resource to those that need to get the big picture to a level that is practical and useful for understanding application and designing solutions. Well done.

Out of date and filled with fluff
Of all the technical books I've read this one qualifies as the worst.It's out of date, but even when it was new it would justify my opinion.

It attempts to cover too wide an area of subjects, and manages to either state the obvious (as in the first chapters that make a sophmoric attempt to define e-commenrce), to display questionable knowledge on the part of contributing authors, as in the section that lamely attempts to discuss architecture.The section on architecture should have been written by someone who could write and who understood architecture. Unfortunately I got the impression that the authors had neither qualifications.

The case studies were interesting, but were not sufficiently insightful to warrant buying this book that those alone.

There are positives to this book though.It weighs nearly 6 pounds, making it suitable as a doorstop.Having photos of all of the authors who contributed on the front cover is helpful if you conduct interviews since it helps in the screen process in case one of them shows up for an interview or tries to come in as a consultant.

My advice is to avoid this book. There are much better ones that cover the subjects in it.

Disappointing
There are a few good sections in this book (mainly the chapters that deal with WebLogic and the appendices of primers and reference material that comprise Section 6).However, considering that this book weighs in at over 1000 pages, its mainly fluff or glib (but not helpful), with too much material that states the obvious.

Much of the fluff is found in Section 1 (The E-Commerce Landscape), and Section 2 (Architecting Java-Based E-Commerce Systems) was, in my opinion, a glossed over, high-level overview that was used as filler.

Sections 3 (B2C E-Commerce Solutions) and 4 (B2B E-Commerce Solutions) have a few interesting chapters in each.My main complaint here is that Section 3 is a mix of solutions and techniques, while Section 4 is purely solution-focused.Section 5 (M-Commerce) is too light to be useful, and most of the material is already woefully out of date.

My recommendation is to pass this book up and, instead, seek out single-topic books that address the subjects in which you're interested.

Where's the e-commerce, where's the professionality?
I can't believe the rating some people give this book. This book touches a lot of areas with little depth. The book contains a lot of filling with no practical usable things.

The information on practical Java E-commerce is very limited, and if you need usable information on JSP, Application Servers, ... I suggest you buy books about the specific areas you need information on. Even if this book was intended to be a high level overview on E-commerce it would miss its mark.

Ecellent overview of a wide range of topics
The Audience for this Book

Java E-Commerce is aimed at people who already know Java and need to evaluate the technologies available. I first I wondered what the target audience would be, if you are a programmer you might not get to choose the technologies and if you are a manager you might not have the time or inclination to learn about these technologies in such depth. I now appreciate that they are appropriate for just about anyone except a beginner, most programmers need to know what technologies are available and managers need to know what the programmers are talking about.

How the book is organised

The book is divided into five sections starting with The E-commerce Landscape. This didn't tell me much I didn't already know, evolution of internet... exciting, define e-commerce....arpanet, web browsers etc etc. All scene setting stuff, but you can't have a fairy story without "once upon a time". Things get a little more interesting with Section 2, "Architecting Java Based e-commerce systems".

Some parts of the web world assume that "everyone uses Microsoft Internet Explorer". The authors of this book recognize that in the future your audience might well be WebTV, a mobile phone or PDA. Although there is plenty of coverage of specific Java technologies such as EJB and Servlets the book recognises that most developments will have to fit in with legacy systems and that the heart of the task is to give the potential purchaser a usable and easy browsing experiences.

Much of the material covers topics I already knew about superficially. Some crucial aspects covered are EJB, XML and JMS. I was fairly stunned to note a mention of the Log4J technology from the Apache group. If you haven't come across Log4J, go to the Apache org web site and download it. I challenge anyone not to find a use for it in any non trivial application. Even allowing for the time it takes to put a book together this illustrates that the authors are right at the front of developing technologies, absorb what these people say, they know what they are talking about.

Plenty of XML Coverage

The topic of XML runs though large parts of the book. Chapter 16 gives an interesting overview of the emerging standards in XML dtd's. There are a raft of competing standards and the dust is yet to clear on which ones will be generally adopted. Chapter 13 has an in-depth discussion of an Intelligent Assistant, ie a natural language parser system to allow customers to interact with a virtual shop assistant. I thought this was interesting in an academic way but I suspect that the number of people who will actually adopt this technology would be very small indeed. The

Bits I enjoyed most

The part I enjoyed most was a part I thought I might not even get around to reading which was Chapter 23, "In the MarketPlace, Corporate Purchasing". This is written in a laconic style by people who obviously have plenty of real world experience. Mixed in with headings like " Characteristics of Corporate Purchasing Systems are titles like "The headaches of having more than one partner." At the end of this chapter are 4 case studies that made me smile for all the right reasons. I did my post graduate education in Software after I had a decade of experience in the industry. It used to annoy me that the lecturers insisted on describing an ideal world that I knew did not exist. I get annoyed by technical books that insist that by following their golden recipes everything will go perfectly. The 4 case studies illustrate that things rarely go to plan, frequently do not go as expected and sometimes have to use horrible solutions but can still solve the problems. If you are browsing your local book shop, pick up this book and jump to the end of chapter 23.

I try to read everything I can about emerging net and Java technologies but I learnt a whole slew of new things reading Java E-Commerce. Notably the nature of B2B technologies. I had rather foolishly assumed it was just more web applications where the person using the browser at one end was in a business and connecting to a server at another business. It actually refers to using web technologies to replace the automated EDI technologies that large corporations have been using for years. I found the topic of XSLT transformations fascinating in that it explains how to get around the incompatibilities between different forms of XML used by different companies. If two companies use different DTDs to structure their XML XSLT can be used to convert between the formats. Until I read that section I had thought of XSLT as a way of transforming XML into nicely formatted HTML.

I found the chapter on M-commerce (transactions via mobile devices) to be interesting as a primer on what can be done via mobile devices, but I suspect you could fit everyone who has ever placed an order via a mobile phone, in my living room and still have space for unexpected visitors.
The book gives a high level coverage of a wide range of related Java technologies by people who appear to have actually worked with them on real world projects. The authors seem to have actually used the technologies in the real world rather than just read the documents and played with a few toy applications. It gives you enough to evaluate how and where you would use each of the technologies and examples of how people have used it in real projects.

Should you buy it?

If you want to be aware of what technologies are available and find out how they can be applied then this is an excellent buy. If you want to start to learn and implement any of the topics mentioned from scratch, you would be better off buying a book that caters specifically for that topic.
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Product Description
The book has been written to provide genuine domain knowledge to programmers who wish to learn Java, Server side, Web based application development, using Java Server Pages. Learning web development is done through a set of examples and hands on exercises.

Topics Covered in the Book
Java Servlets And Java Server Pages What Are Servlets, Introduction To Web Application, Basic Servlet API, Introduction To Java Server Pages Basics Of Java Server Pages Getting Started With Java Server Pages, Working With Java Server Pages, Introduction To Java Server Pages Documents, Implicit Objects, Scope And EL Expressions, Action Elements, Java Beans And Java Server Pages, Working With Databases Tag Libraries Custom Tag Libraries - Classic Tags, Custom Tag Libraries - Simple Tags, Custom Tag Libraries - Tags Files, JSP Standard Tag Libraries Advanced Java Server Pages Event Listeners, Cookies, Sessions, Filters, Resource Bundles, Error Handling And Exception Handling

CD-ROM Contents Setup Files For Java EE 5 SDK, MySQL Database, MySQL Connector/J, JRE Source Code For Every Example In This Book Source Code For Solutions To Hands On Exercises. ... Read more