JSP Design (Third Edition)

Author: Bergsten
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Publish Date: 2004-12-01
Features: "Hans Bergsten is an experienced member of the JSP expert group and has made outstanding contributions to JSP. Hans not only fully and accurately grasps the new features of JSP 2.0 and JSTL 1.1 but also presents them in an organized and easy-to-understand manner through this book. The book also provides numerous insightful examples, making it a must-have reference manual for all serious JSP 2.0 developers." — Mark Toth, Chief Designer of the JSP 2.0 Specification, Sun Microsystems
Since the release of JSP 1.0 in 1999, JavaServer Pages (JSP) has stirred up a storm, with followers flocking to it. JSP provides a flexible tool for enterprise Java developers to create dynamic web sites and applications. With the introduction of the JavaServer Pages Standard Tag Library (JSTL), the somewhat rough edges of the JSP specification in earlier versions have been significantly improved, and JSP 2.0 has taken this technology to a new height. JSP Design (Third Edition) has been thoroughly revised and updated to cover the JSP 2.0 and JSTL 1.1 specifications. It provides detailed introductions to the new Expression Language (EL) in JSP 2.0, the JSTL 1.1 tag library and new function library, the new tag file format that supports custom tag library development without Java code, the simplified Java tag library API, improvements in the JSP XML syntax, and more.
Beyond this, the book also elaborates on the setup of the Apache Tomcat server, JSP and JSTL syntax and features, error handling and debugging, authentication and personalization, database access, XML processing, and internationalization.
Professionals learning JSP can be divided into two camps, and this book fully recognizes the different needs of these two groups: web designers are interested in how to use JSP elements on web pages, while programmers are more interested in understanding the JSP API and how to effectively use JSP as part of enterprise applications.
If you are a web designer, you will benefit greatly from the practical web application examples in the second part of this book. If you are a programmer, you will highly appreciate the detailed advanced topics in the third part, such as how to integrate Servlets and JavaBeans components with JSP using the popular Apache Struts MVC (Model-View-Controller) framework, and how to develop custom tag libraries using the JSP API, with practical examples provided as a starting point for developing your own tag libraries.