Hello, > The wrox books are filled with information, but I have yet to see one > that completes the information they're trying to convey.
I agree with this. I've helped with a number of Wrox books and this is usually the case. It always seems to be due to the *very* quick development cycle and mixed group of authors. > 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 [...] First off, I've read most of the JSP 1.1 and JSP 1.2 books (for reviews). I have yet to get my hands on Hans' 2nd edition JSP title, but, it will no doubtly be a good book(likely your best choice for JSP 1.2). Hans is true benefactor to the JSP community in both the quality of his books and work he puts in with the specs. As for good JSP books there is another you should keep an eye out for, http://www.jspbook.com. Kevin Jones and I have been working very hard on a new title which will be released soon (it is waiting on the final version of JSP 2.0 and Servlets 2.4). It covers the latest specs, important topics like design patterns (including MVC and MVC w/Struts), and provides useful code for just about all of the helpful Servlets, JSP, and Filters out there. Of course it includes JSTL 1.0 :) Anyhow, I don't mean to steal Hans' glory here, but, Addison Wesely has given Kevin and me a lot of time and freedom to produce a good Servlet/JSP book. If anyone is looking for a good up-to-date JSP book, I think it will be well worth your time to keep an eye out for its release. Cheers, Jayson Falkner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Robert S. Sfeir wrote: > 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 > > =========================================================================== 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
