JSP Design

Author: Wang Qingqing et al.
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Publish Date: 2005-04-01
Features: Since 1999, enterprise-level Java has swept across the entire Java programming community like a storm, and developers have recognized its potential in building distributed applications. Now, JSP (JavaServer Pages) continues to coordinate the work between web designers and programmers, enabling them to collaboratively create dynamic websites. JSP is built on the specific JavaServlet technology, making it easier to develop dynamic web applications—even if you are a hardcore programmer. JSP Design (Second Edition) has been thoroughly revised and updated, including major changes from the JSP 1.2 specification, with detailed content on the JSP Standard Tag Library (JSTL)—a set of eagerly adopted JSP element specifications for tasks commonly needed in most JSP applications. The book begins by explaining how JSP can fully leverage JavaServlets to create efficient, portable web applications. It also demonstrates how to use the Apache Tomcat server to start JSP and provides detailed coverage of JSP syntax and functionality, error handling and debugging, authentication and personalization, as well as how to use JSTL for database access, XML processing, and internationalization. This book meets the different needs of two types of professionals learning JSP: one group is web designers who are interested in how to use JSP elements on web pages, and the other is programmers who are highly focused on the JSP API and are concerned about how to effectively use JSP in enterprise-level applications. If you belong to the latter group, this book will also guide you to explore more advanced topics, such as integrating servlets and JavaBeans with JSP using the common Apache Struts MVC framework. Finally, the book's authors demonstrate how to develop custom tag libraries using realistic examples, which readers can use as a starting point for their own JSP libraries.