Beginning JavaServer Pages

by Chopra, Vivek; Eaves, Jon; Jones, Rupert; Li, Sing; Bell, John T.

• ISBN13: 9780764574856
• ISBN10: 076457485X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-02-18
• Publisher: Wrox

Summary

JSP is one of the core technologies for server-side Java applications and the 2.0 release, which this book covers in detail, makes JSP an even more powerful tool Walks Java programmers and Web developers through JSP fundamentals, including JSP syntax and directives, JSP Expression Language, JSP Tag libraries, JSTL, and techniques for testing and debugging Shows how to use JSP in real-world Web applications along with open source frameworks such as Struts, WebWork, and Turbine, software design methodologies, and developer tools like Ant, jUnit, and CVS, as well as popular IDEs (integrated development environmnents) Each chapter has an exercise section with solutions on the companion Web site

Author Biography

Vivek Chopra has over ten years of experience as a software developer, architect, and team lead, with extensive experience with Web services, J2EE, and middleware technologies. He has worked and consulted at a number of Silicon Valley companies and startups and has (pending) patents on Web services. Vivek actively writes about technology and has coauthored half a dozen books on topics such as opensource software, Java, XML, and Web services. He contributes to open source, too, and has developed parts of the uddi4j library, an open-source Java API for UDDI.

Sing Li, first bit by the microcomputer bug in 1978, has grown up with the microprocessor age. His first personal computer was a do-it-yourself Netronics COSMIC ELF computer with 256 bytes of memory, mail-ordered from the back pages of Popular Electronics magazine. Currently, Sing is a consultant, system designer, open-source software contributor, and freelance writer. He writes for several popular technical journals and e-zines and is the creator of the Internet Global Phone, one of the very first Internet phones available. He has authored and coauthored numerous books across diverse technical topics, including JSP, Tomcat, servlets, XML, Jini, and JXTA.

Rupert Jones is a Technical Lead for J2EE projects at Internet Business Systems. Over the past six years, Rupert has provided software development and consulting services for blue-chip companies, both in Australia and internationally. He lives and works in Melbourne, Australia. Rupert can be contacted at [e-mail].

Jon Eaves has been developing software in a variety of languages and domains for over 15 years. He is currently employed by ThoughtWorks, developing large-scale enterprise systems using J2EE. When he can find spare time, he develops J2ME/MIDP applications and works on the BouncyCastle Crypto APIs (www.bouncycastle.org). Jon can be reached at [e-mail].

John T. Bell has more than 20 years of software development experience and currently serves as the lead software architect for the Web site of a major hospitality company based in Bethesda, Maryland. He is also an adjunct professor, teaching server-side Java technologies for the Center for Applied Information Technology at Towson State University. He has a master’s degree in Computer Systems Management and a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, both from the University of Maryland. This is Mr. Bell’s third contribution to a Wrox title. He is also the author of The J2EE Open Source Toolkit.

Table of Contents

PART I: JSP FUNDAMENTALS.

1. Getting Started with JavaServer Pages.

2. JSP Basics 1- Dynamic Page Creation for Data Presentation.

3. JSP Basics 2- Generalized Templating and Server Scripting.

4. HTML, Javascript, VBScript and JSB.

5. JSP and EL.

6. JSP Tag Libraries and JSTL.

7. JSP Directives.

8. JSP Standard Actions.

9. JSP and JavaBeans.

10. Error and Exception Handling; Building Your Own Custom JSP Tag.

11. Library.

12. Web Services; Advanced Dynamic Web Content.

13. Generation.

14. JSP Debugging Techniques.

PART II: JSP AND MODERN WEB SERVER SOFTWARE: DEVELOPMENT.

15. JSP and Servlets; Role of JSP in the Bigger Context: Web.

16. Applications.

17. Model View Controller.

18. Web Frameworks.

19. Jakarta Struts.

20. Layout Management with Tiles.

21. JavaServer Faces.

22. JSP in J2EE.

23. Access to Databases.

24. Security.

25. Performance.

26. Best Practices and Tools.

PART III: SPREADING YOUR NEW WINGS: APPLYING JSP IN THE REAL WORLD.

27. JSP Project I: Content from Other Web Sites.

28. JSP Project II: Online Storefront.

Appendix A: JSP Syntax.

Appendix B: JSP Expression Language Reference.

Appendix C: JSTL Reference.

Appendix D: Exercise Solutions.

Index.

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