I think all books have errors. In advanced JavaServer Pages I stepped on a couple of pieces of code where the author was not catching (or throwing) the proper exception, or didn't do it at all, so it ends up that when you're writing the code out for testing on your machine that the class won't compile, and you have to be careful to know which exception to throw, or to at least catch Exception if you're not sure. You can even download the code from their site, and it won't compile because of errors like that. You figure if they typed it they should at LEAST run it and test it!
The wrox books are filled with information, but I have yet to see one that completes the information they're trying to convey. I always feel like I'm missing something, or feel like I have more questions than answers. Adv-jsp at least gives me a lot of very good code to start from, in a way that I can start using it and build on it. Anyway that's the kind of book I look for. Don't just give me concepts, show me code, useful code I can use every day, and that will start making sense to me when I'm learning and evaluating things. What I don't like is when you get an example that is so over simplified it doesn't tell you anything you can relate to in the work you're trying to do. R On Friday, August 9, 2002, at 02:39 PM, Tariq Ahmed wrote: >> The information is generally ok but their proof-reading isn't up to >> much, >> I've bought a few wrox books and they're always littered with errors. >> I'm >> sure others would disagree but thats my experience. > > Actually I can definitely concur on that. The Wrox Beginning JSP book > I have > has a number of mistakes in it. I was actually thinking cataloging > them all > and emailing it so they can fix it on their next revision. > Realistically > though they are minor, but it goes against their attention to detail. > > ======================================================================= > ==== > To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff > JSP-INTEREST". > For digest: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "set JSP-INTEREST > DIGEST". > Some relevant FAQs on JSP/Servlets can be found at: > > http://archives.java.sun.com/jsp-interest.html > http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html > http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.jsp > http://www.jguru.com/faq/index.jsp > http://www.jspinsider.com =========================================================================== To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff JSP-INTEREST". For digest: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "set JSP-INTEREST DIGEST". Some relevant FAQs on JSP/Servlets can be found at: http://archives.java.sun.com/jsp-interest.html http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.jsp http://www.jguru.com/faq/index.jsp http://www.jspinsider.com
