On Wed, 1 May 2002, Manikandan Subramaniam wrote: > Hi Mark > > Thanks a lot for the immediate reply! > > Is this book enough for a person to learn about Servlets and JSP > right from the basics to the most advanced? > > If it is not, kindly let me know other sources also from where I can > learn.
A few comments on Hall's "Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages" book. I haven't read it extensively, I've only perused it, and it looks like a good one. It is a couple of years old, so it doesn't cover the latest servlets/JSP specs (the latest are 2.3/1.2 respectively, it covers 2.2/1.1). Don't know if there are plans for an updated version. Hall does have a newer "companion" (his, or the publisher's, term) book called "More Servlets and JavaServer Pages". I picked that one up recently, and it also looks like a good one. It does cover the latest spec. It covers the basics of servlets/JSP in the first few chapters, and then goes on to more advanced topics -- its coverage is deeper and more advanced than that in "Core Servlets". If you are a total beginner with servlets/JSP, you might want to start out with "Core Servlets". Otherwise, you may find the coverage of the basics in "More Servlets" sufficient, and then you get the benefit of a more recent book with more advanced coverage. Also, as someone else suggested, getting both books may be an option. Remember, and this goes for any topic, there is very unlikely to be one "perfect" book, that covers everything you want just the way you want. So you either live with the imperfections of one or two books, or buy a bunch of them. Also, there are a lot of (free) online resources for servlets/JSP. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Galbreath, Mark > Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 3:57 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Good book for JSP and Servlets > > Marty Hall, "Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages" (Sun/Prentice-Hall, 2000), ISBN >0-13-0893404. > > Mark > -----Original Message----- > From: Manikandan Subramaniam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 11:26 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Good book for JSP and Servlets > > > Hi > > I want to learn JSP and Servlets. I don't know how to start > with. Can anyone suggest me a good book for JSP and Servlets? > > Thanks and Regards > > S. Manikandan Milt Epstein Research Programmer Systems and Technology Services (STS) Campus Information Technologies and Educational Services (CITES) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html
