Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages (courtesy of Sun Microsystems Press)

Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages

This book is aimed at serious software developers. This is not a book that

touts the potential of e-commerce or pontificates about how Web-enabled


applications will revolutionize your business. Instead, it is a hands-on book


aimed at helping programmers who are already convinced of the need for


dynamic Web sites get started building them right away. In showing how to


build these sites, I try to illustrate the most important approaches and warn


you of the most common pitfalls. Along the way, I include plenty of working


code: more than a hundred documented Java classes, for instance. I try to


give detailed examples of the most important and frequently used features,


summarize the lesser-used ones, and refer you to the APIs (available


on-line) for a few of the rarely used ones.


Nor is this a book that skims dozens of technologies at a high level.


Although I don’t claim that this is a definitive reference on every technology


it touches on (e.g., there are a number of books this size just on JDBC), if the


book covers a topic, it does so in enough detail for you to sit down and start


writing real programs. The one exception to this rule is the Java programming


language itself. Although I don’t assume any familiarity with server-side programming,


I do expect you to be familiar with the basics of Java language


development. If you’re not, you will need to pick up a good tutorial like Core


Java, Core Web Programming, or Thinking in Java.
A word of caution, however. Nobody becomes a great developer just by



reading. You have to write some real code, too. The more, the better. In each


chapter, I suggest that you start by making a simple program or a small variation


of one of the examples given, then strike off on your own with a more significant


project. Skim the sections you don’t plan on using right away, then


come back when you are ready to try them out.


If you do this, you should quickly develop the confidence to handle the


real-world problems that brought you here in the first place. You should be


able to decide where servlets apply well, where JSP is better, and where a combination


is best. You should not only know how to generate HTML content, but


you should also understand building other media types like GIF images or


Excel spreadsheets. You should understand HTTP 1.1 well enough to use its


capabilities to enhance the effectiveness of your pages. You should have no


qualms about developing Web interfaces to your corporate databases, using


either HTML forms or applets as front ends. You should be able to spin off


complex behaviors into JavaBeans components or custom JSP tag libraries,


then decide when to use these components directly and when to start requests


with servlets that set things up for separate presentation pages. You should have


fun along the way. You should get a raise.
 

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