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Author: Larne Pekowsky Publisher: Addison-Wesley Date: 2000 Pages: 282 ISBN: 0201704218 |
Reviewd by Casey Kochmer
JSP is a great way to build web sites, but new programmers jumping into JSP may not realize how much there really is to learn. JSP can quickly swamp a new programmer in confusion. JavaServer Pages is an extended, well laid out tutorial for JSP beginners. It is simple to read and gently walks the reader through building a JSP web site. As the author teaches you JSP, he also slowly introduces you to important concepts which you might miss while taking a less complete tutorial. This book will not make you a JSP expert, but it will ground you in the basics so you will understand what JSP is and how to proceed further in your education.
The tutorial misses two important aspects of becoming proficient in JSP. First, it doesn't walk a person through setting up a JSP container. When this book was written, however, Tomcat wasn't fully released. Hopefully, in a future edition an appendix will be included to cover this topic. The second deficiency is it doesn't cover client-side processing with javascript. Granted, this book is a JSP tutorial and not a javascript tutorial. JSP programmers, however, must understand javascript and how to interface with it on their web pages. The book would be enhanced by an introductory discussion or appendix on how to have JSP work in harmony with Javascript. Concentrating solely on JSP could help eliminate some of the confusion for new programmers, but if you are in this boat be aware that there's more to learning JSP than just JavaServer Pages!
Overall, this is a nice tutorial for introducing programmers to JavaServer Pages. When I showed the book to a novice programmer friend to see if it was easy to understand, she told me, "Now this is a programming book I can understand!"That by itself is a great recommendation.
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