Any volunteers?
----- Original Message -----
From: Kirkdorffer, Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 1999 12:51 PM
Subject: Re: JSP Books
> I concur with Larry concerning the need for a good tutorial about "how to
> find, research, configure, and install the
> latest versions of JDK, JSDK, Apache, JServ, JSSI, and gnujsp and
Jakarta".
> Knowing what will be in a couple of books to be published, I wonder if any
> will bother to address this issue/topic. Otherwise the books will be
making
> the assumption you have already fumbled your way through those steps and
are
> ready to write JSPs, or else that there are too many variations of engines
> out there so they don't try to talk about any one of them. I think that
if
> no book covers this, that such a tutorial needs to be developed by someone
> in the know.
>
> Dan
>
> > ----------
> > From: Larry Fluckiger[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Reply To: Larry Fluckiger
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 1999 8:06 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: JSP Books
> >
> > 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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