JavaServer Pages, 3rd Edition at Dominant Systems Book Store

"Hans Bergsten, a JSP expert group veteran and one of our most active contributors, has thoroughly and accurately captured the new features of JSP 2.0 and JSTL 1.1 in a way that is well-organized and easy to understand. With excellent, to-the-point examples, this book is a 'must have' for any serious JSP 2.0 developer." --Mark Roth, JSP 2.0 Specification Lead, Sun Microsystems, Inc. Hans Bergsten is the founder of Gefion Software, a company focused on Java services and products based on J2EE technologies. Hans has been an active participant in the working groups for both the servlet and JSP specifications since their inception and contributes to other related JCP specifications, such as JSP Standard Tag Library (JSTL) and JavaServer Faces (JSF), and, as one of the initial members of the Apache Jakarta Project Management Committee, helped develop the Apache Tomcat reference implementation for the servlet and JSP specifications.

Customer Reviews & Comments
I bought this book hoping to learn enough of JSP/Servlets to create an e-commerce website. My impression after reading this book is that the author tries very hard to please both beginners and intermediate developers. To this extent, he winds up pleasing no one. Quite often he tells "advanced programmers" to jump ahead and read a later chapter. This didn't make the book flow very well. This book gives a lot of JSP code, but skimps on the code when it comes to Beans, which are critical elements to the examples. I assume the author expects the reader to download the Bean code from O'Reilly's website and decipher the code by themselves. Because of this incompleteness, I was not able to completely grasp the ideas behind the examples. It would've been better if the author included the Bean code along with the supporting JSP code. By not providing code for them, Beans are treated like a "black box" throughout this book. The last gripe I have about this book is the author's inordinate amount of use of "..." in the code examples. Quite often in listing the codes, he would throw the three dots. Again, this renders the examples in the book almost useless to those trying to type in the code for themselves to learn. A more thorough and coherent book for learning about JSP and Servlets would be "Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages" by Marty Hall and Larry Brown.

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