Java Developer's Guide to Servlets and JSP [With CDROM]

A good introduction to the basics of servlets and jsps. Although a little old now, it shares good knowledge to begginers.

I read this book and found this book as an excellent book to learn Servlets and JSP, And to use other technologies in it, specially EJBs, XML & JDBC.Author wrote this book in consideration of students mind, it can answer every question of student. Examples are very easy to learn and easily changeable for students. And explanations are just enough to clear concepts of every student. And I hope u will not need any other book or even any teacher. And finally I would say "Just Great", Thanks for writing this book Mr. Bill===FAF

I found this book very helpful. It's extremely well written and has superb sample code. It covers the servlet API and JSP. The tips on debugging were very insightful. There's a chapter on java and XML which is well done. Brogden also covers EJBs and shows you how to create your own custom JSP tag library. Overall, a high quality, objective book on building web apps with Java, that is not biased toward a particular tool or server. The Appendix serves as a nice reference to the core classes in the JSP and Servlet API. This is the 2nd java book by Brogden that I highly recommend. The other is Java 2 Exam Prep.

I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to read this book. Overall the book succeeded in explaining the main concepts relating to JSP and Servlets. There was also a relatively good discussion of related topics such as XML, JNDI, LDAP and JDBC. The example were OK but could have gone into more depth. Given the number of pages in this book I dont think you can expect to have as much coverage and examples are books with twice as many pages, nor can you expect for it to cover every topic even remotely related to Servlets and JSP. Although I havent read other books my associates also spoke well of CORE JSP and Web Development with Java Servlet PagesWorking knowledge in XML, HTML and JAVA definitely increased my ability to pick up the topics quite easily. It is quite imperative to work through the examples if you wish to be able to learn and understand the basics before you tackle the more advanced topics.