Product DescriptionDeveloped by the open source community to make writing JavaServer Pages (JSP) faster and easier, JSP custom tags give Java developers the ability to insert XML style tags, representing complex business logic, into a JSP. This code is reusable and can help to simplify and reduce the amount of original code that needs to be written. * James Goodwill is a well-respected authority and bestselling author of books on Java Web applications * Provides a hands-on, code-intensive guide for building and using custom tags to create enterprise-strength JSP applications and examines the concepts and techniques needed to build sophisticated Web applications * Companion Web site contains the JSP, servlet, and custom tag code found in the book
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Mastering JSP Tags?
This book does cover a lot of ground. You will probably learn about JSP custom tags and tag libraries if you can get through all the typos and errors in the example code. I think this book does a good job of covering the mechanics of JSP Tags. I don't think it covers the design aspects of using tags very well. I would have rated it higher if someone had bothered to proofread this book.
Rating: - Finally
Finally, I was able to find a tags book that made since. I loved everything about the text. It covered the process of creating tags from the ground up, including excellant coverage of a tags life. Great Job.
Rating: - JSTL coverage premature
This book's coverage of JSTL is not useful. JSTL was not yet released when this book was published, so it covers a premature beta version that isn't useful to learn.
Rating: - Be careful !!!
There're over 100 typos !!!!!!!! I cannot show the typos here becuase there're many many many mistakes. I don't know why other reviewers don't mention it. Maybe It's a disadvantage of the author so that Amazon doesn't let the review show up.
I totally don't recommend to buy this book. You can buy this book after you manster taglibs with other books. :)
Rating: - Great coverage of Taglibs and JSTL
This book packs a lot into 400 pages, and is the most cutting-edge tags book I've seen. It uses a custom-built contact manager (all the code included) to demonstrate how the various components of a Java web app work together and how to deploy it using Tomcat. The app uses both MySQL and Access as its database, which should satisfy most readers. The illustrations explaining the servlet life cycle were excellent!
The book gives a thorough introduction to the various types of tags (simple, ... Read More
- Mastering JSP Tags?
- Finally
- JSTL coverage premature
- Be careful !!!
