Hi Everybody,
I'm (already) working in a book in JSP and Tag Libraries development for New
Riders Publishing.
The idea of the book is:
- An introduction on Servlets and JSP
- Deep in Tag coding
- Design and Architectural issues (major challenges when designing web apps
with Servlets, JSP, Pet Shop Model 2 approach, Struts Model 2 approach, the
role of tags in process encapsulation and reuse, how tags affect system
design and how the Servlet/JSP architecture responds to that, etc.). EJBs
are treated as subsidiary (calm down!) since it's too broad a subject and
very well covered in many other books.
- Deep in Struts (a couple of chapters to discuss the model, the usage
scenarios and of course the taglibs)
- Jakarta Taglibs (a broad coverage)
- Commercial taglibs (the commercial case)
- Appendixes on TOMCAT (I focus in TOMCAT), MySQL, Caucho Resin and Jrun
(examples are provided also on these), jBoss
- Many, many, MANY examples on everything.
Questions are:
1. What do you think of this coverage ?
2. What would you like to see on paper ? My sources on the design issues are
a number of articles (for instance that one from Jason Hunter questioning
JSP), some reference books and the lists (not to mention experience, of
course).
3. On the side of Struts, what do you like to see there ? What do you think
is not yet said or well said about Struts ?
4. And on the design issues on Servlet/JSP architecture(s) ?
Thank you all for your attention on this,
Wellington Silva
UN/FAO
