Servlets
Inside Servlets: Server-Side Programming for the Java(TM) Platform (2nd Edition)
Format: Paperback
Author: Dustin R. Callaway
ReleaseDate: 04 May, 2001
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Rating:
Servlet Programming 
As you will learn soon, a typical Java web application consists of 3 major components: Servlet, JSP, and JavaBean. This book will help you understand not only Servlets but also JSP and many other related topics that you need to know when building web pages using Java. You will need to master all 3 of them, and this book will help you learn the most important component of the 3: The Servlet. 10 stars to the author!.
Should be 5-stars
I had also done some jsp coding at that startup, but when it came time to go back and make my own jsp pages without an office full of people to answer my questions and provide me with code templates to work inside of, I was lost. I have some programming experience from college in c and some post-graduation experience as an asp coder at a small startup. This book is a very gentle introduction to servlets and tries very hard to be thorough. Definitely 5 stars for somebody who is new to servlets.
First-rate!
The exposition is clear and comprehensive; the layout-typesetting is very easy on the eyes; and the author has a pleasant though no nonsense style that makes this a pleasure to work with. This book is just what a technical book should be.
The book provides good background material for the different topics it covers, without spoon feeding or "dumbing down. " It goes on to cover advanced topics -- threads, JDBC, JSP -- decently. It doesn't try to be the "be all to end all" regarding these topics, but instead gives the reader a very solid introduction, and enough code to accomplish something worthwhile. I have this book, and the book from O'Reilly; and though I would recommend both, if I had to choose one, this book would win -- no contest!.
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