David Geary wrote:
> I am working on a JSP
> book, and I would love to hear from members of this list privately via
email
> as to your experiences with JSP and what you would like to see covered in
> the book.
Let me state publicly, rather than privately, what I want to see in a JSP
book. There are several examples on the net about how to write simple beans
and use them with JSP. What I need help with is the next step. Like many JSP
developers, I'm developing a web site to support customer login, customized
customer portals, database access through JDBC, HTML forms for creating,
displaying, and modifying database records, etc. I would love to have a book
that could walk me through the whole process with examples.
How is a clean way to manage editing and updating database records from an
HTML form? I want to use the same JSP for creating, modifying, and possibly
deleting database records. What is a good way to manage the current state as
I re-traverse through the same page multiple times? How should I
hierarchically organize my JavaBeans package files and my JSP directories?
How do I handle data entry errors? Should I try to detect them on the client
side or the server side? Should I display these errors in a separate window,
or redisplay the page with error information stuck in it somehow? Does it
make sense to use one central JSP as a state manager so that all page
traversal is managed at one location rather than having all pages use direct
links to other pages?
As long as I'm wishing, here's one more. I understand that Apache is the
most widely used web server. As someone new to web development, it took me
too long to figure out how to find, research, configure, and install the
latest versions of JDK, JSDK, Apache, JServ, JSSI, and gnujsp and Jakarta.
It has been a beneficial experience to go through what I did, but it would
have been nice to have a single source of information to walk me through the
process.
I realize that this field is progressing very quickly and that anyone
currently using JSP should expect some bruises. The book I want to buy isn't
one that just restates what I can already find in Sun's JavaServer Pages
Developer's Guide, but one that helps me avoid the mistakes that each one of
us is likely to make as we use JSP and JDBC to develop complete web
applications.
Thanks,
Larry
-----Original Message-----
From: David Geary [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, November 15, 1999 5:20 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: JSP Books
As far as I know, there are currently no books in print. I am working on a
JSP
book, and I would love to hear from members of this list privately via email
as to
your experiences with JSP and what you would like to see covered in the
book.
My book will be published by Sun Microsystems Press and will be available in
time
for JavaOne 2000. I am also looking for power users who are interested in
reviewing
the book.
david geary
Phil wrote:
> > Are there any books available on JSP?
>
> We know of no hardcopy texts dedicated to JSP. (If you hear of any,
> please let us know.) Online tutorials and specifications may be all you'll
> have to work with for now.
>
> Don't forget the fine servlet books such as Jason Hunter's book and
> James Goodwill's text, Developing Java Servlets. JSPs are, fundamentally,
> servlets.
>
> We'll be giving a copy of James Goodwill's text away at our public
> service site and would love to put Jason's text up there too. If you want
to
> see our review of James' book, goto:
>
> http://www.the-wally-project.org/twp.jsp?cp=devbooksgoodwill
>
> I'll keep you posted.
>
> Phil
>
>
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