Professional JSP Site Design

It is definitely not a beginner book.But all the chapters are good even though it was written by different authors.The section on refactoring in the beginning set the tone of the book. Good authors. Would recommend this book to anyone working with jsps. Very easy language to understand too. The reason I gave it a 4 is 'coz I understood it more only after I began working with jsps for a while.

This book really helps you to kickstart JSP and Struts based development,This book covers following issues- an overview of web programming with JSP and Servlets.- Struts Framework.- a range of basic techniques for handling the client-side of web site design, which includes HTTP and browser compability,frames,PopUp windows, Page layouts, the duynamic constructionof site navigation,error handling and logging.- tecniques for connecting Java web application to relational database, and for integrating them as part of an overall J2EE solution.- security and user management,visitor tracking and personalization.- XML.It looked at the web application framework that uses XML document fragment rather than JavaBean when passing data around,making it much easier to integrate with a web services back end.Many JSP developers will want to read this book to learn about Struts and other ways of producing maintainable JSP based web sites. This is not the kind of book you would read from start to finish but as a quick overview and reference of some advanced topics. Don't expect to become an expert by reading this book but you will have a good idea what you can and should do with JSP. Most JSP developers will find something new in this book but some will requiremore detail. We would recommend this book to JSP developers who have read the beginners JSP books and want to learn more about JSP.

Over the past 3 years a number of issues have surfaced with regard to the development of web sites and applications with Java. Different appraoches have been tried with certain ones emerging as the winners. This book identifes and describes the winning approaches in: - session hassels with frames and page layout - navigation issues - security - personization - content management - use of xml in the web site, etc. - overview of struts and design pattters based on it. I have sat in many developer sessions where these problems were being discussed and every one of them would have benefited from the insights in this book. The book ins't for battle hardend veterns who have discovered these answers already the hard way, it is for up and coming developers who whould rather not have to. Frank Kurka www.fkx.com www.usedipaq.com