Servlets

Java Servlet & JSP Cookbook

Format: Paperback
Author: Bruce W Perry
ReleaseDate: 01 December, 2003
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Rating:

You want to write Servlets & JSP's - Buy This!
I find writing a challenge, even if it's a positive experience, as it is now. I'm not a big reviewer. I started learning Java a few months ago and bought a number of books on the topics I needed to really create a java website.
I stumbled on this book as one of the ten or so I purchased.

I haven't touched the other's since. This book has it all, written so clearly that you know the author is very familiar with her subject and understands it thouroughly. It was written in 2003 and discusses Tomcat server as release 4. 0 but that does not matter one bit. I was truly able to use this book to put together a website. Servlet, jsp, even java script is covered. I found many questions I had assembled reading the other books being answered in this one.
Murach's books should be proud of this and I notice that they don't publish a 100 books on a subject; just have a few. I'll bet they're just as good.
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Precisely the book I've been dreaming of...
Just as any cookbook, it doesn't go into the "deepest" details about every little thing, and it does give examples of ways to not reinvent the wheel. This book is exactly what it claims to be: a general reference to hundreds of "everyday" situations Java Web developers face. Some reviewers see this as worthy of only 1 star. . . This is only a 1 star book for readers who like to reinvent the wheel and waste time on unnecessary details. . . if you're like me and have deadlines to meet, you'll find what you need here quickly and efficiently.

Hampered by use of custom libraries


As a developer for a major corporation I cannot use custom libraries for my work, especially when the license (http://www. Being an O'Reilly fan it is hard for me to find fault with their no-nonsense approach to technical books, but there is one MAJOR issue I have with this book.servlets. com/cos/license. html) does not allow for commercial use. Where it would be helpful to see details on creating say, a multipart request class, Bruce Perry instead uses the com. oreilly. servlet. MultipartRequest class to hide much of the functionality (this is just one example).

This makes little or no sense. Developers in the real world need real examples. Hiding the implementation of such under the non-commercial license pretty much ruins much of the potential application of an otherwise well written book. If you buy this book realise that only some of it will actually be useful in the real world.