Servlets

WAP Servlets: Developing Dynamic Web Content With Java and WML (With CD-ROM)

Format: Paperback
Author: John L. Cook
ReleaseDate: 16 November, 2000
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Rating:

Neither WAP nor Servlets, but only a "Cookbook"
Though the intention of the author is good, the examples are made unecessarily complicated to demostrate simple concepts that could confuse a beginner. The author makes a good attempt at describing how Java Servlets could be used for a WAP application. The Servlet version used in this book is rather outdated (v2. 1) and the discussion on WAP and WML is just enough to explain the examples specifically developed for this book. There is also a big chapter in this book explaining the outdated servlet 2. 1 api.

Given the high cost of this book, the readers are better off buying a book on WAP and a book on Servlets separately. (Most of the books on Servlets discuss how to use XML with servlets. ).

Excellent Introduction and Hands-on examples
This book is written in such a way that its like the author is sitting right next to me to answer questions. As a newcomer to WAP and Java Servlets, I found this book to be informative with an excellent introduction to both WAP/WML and Java Servlets. This book contains lots of usable examples which I found very useful, sort of a cook book (no punn intended). I would recommend this book to the neophyte as well as the seasoned programmer.

Very helpful
The first couple of chapters had simple, easy to follow examples for accessing features of WML and servlets. I found this book very helpful in getting started with WAP. I found the WAP web servlet example a great way to get started developing my own WAP site. Using this code and the servlet engine (included on the disk) I had a site up an running in a day!.