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Title: Advanced JavaServer Pages by David M. Geary ISBN: 0-13-030704-1 Publisher: Pearson Higher Education Pub. Date: 29 May, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $44.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.39 (23 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent
Comment: I would recommend this extremely well-written book to anyone who is seriously interested in J2EE architecture. If you have basic familiarity with server-side Java (servlets, JSP), Advanced JavaServer Pages will help you understand design patterns and strategies that are widely popular among experienced J2EE software developers, such as Model 2 Architecture or Composite View. The author provides a great tutorial on custom tags. The first two chapters: "Custom tag fundamentals" and "Custom tag advanced concepts" is all you need to start developing JSP custom tags. Whether you consider using an open source framework like Jakarta Struts, or writing your own, David Geary's book provides a great deal of insight and tons of carefully written source code. I am using his custom tags based implementation of the composite view pattern in my projects. By the way, the downloadable source code is very reliable. The book's case study, and all other examples, work "out of the box". It was very easy to switch the sample code from Cloudscape to MySQL and mmMySQL JDBC driver.
Rating: 5
Summary: Superb, real-world JSP Application Architecture
Comment: Advanced JSP is an incredibly useful book; it provides the essential design framework for implementing real-world JSP applications. Geary outlines three critical JSP architecture patterns: (1) a template-driven approach for structuring web page layouts; (2) a Model-View- Controller (MVC) framework to separate presentation and business logic; and (3) a custom-tag based pattern for controlling database access. The text and the examples are clearly written and illustrated; in explaining each concept, Geary starts with a straightforward example, and then effectively builds additional sophistication upon it.
As a project manager with my first JSP assignment, this book provided the key design principles. When I shared the book with my Java development team, they were even more enthusiastic; they shared the book with two other development teams who are going to incorporate his ideas. One senior Java developer indicated that if he had implemented Geary's framework on his previous JSP project, they could have written a much more robust application with 75% less code. Geary's design patterns take care of most of the application infrastructure; it will allow my development team to focus on coding business-specific components -- and not on the underlying "plumbing".
Rating: 1
Summary: Waste of Time and Money
Comment: It's been almost 4 months since I purchased the book and read the first 1/3 of it. I've since tossed it.
I was looking for a book that covered Tag libaries from a technical perspective - and give good reasons for using them.
The book was written as a text book for first year college students to work through the chapters - which start with tediously simple examples - and provide no examples of substance or value. It also assumes "tags are good" - and provides no evidence of it. So - if you're willing to accept what the authorities tell you without challenge or thinking about it - perhaps this book is for you.
From my perspective, the world is full of Java101 books. It doesn't need any more - and certainly not this one.
Anybody looking at the inerworkings of tag libraries should be passed the 101 level. Sorry David - but you missed your audience.
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Title: More Servlets and JavaServer Pages by Marty Hall ISBN: 0130676144 Publisher: Pearson Higher Education Pub. Date: 26 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages, Vol. 1: Core Technologies, Second Edition by Marty Hall, Larry Brown ISBN: 0130092290 Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Pub. Date: 29 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Programming Jakarta Struts by Chuck Cavaness ISBN: 0596003285 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 13 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: JSP 2.0: The Complete Reference, Second Edition by Philip Hanna, Phil Hanna ISBN: 0072224371 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Pub. Date: 17 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Struts in Action: Building Web Applications with the Leading Java Framework by Ted Husted, Cedric Dumoulin, George Franciscus, David Winterfeldt, Craig R. McClanahan ISBN: 1930110502 Publisher: Manning Publications Company Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $44.95 |
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