Murach's Java Servlets And Jsp, 2nd Edition

Training & Reference

Ever since we published the first edition of this book back in 2003, we've been getting feedback like this from developers:

"This book is excellent, excellent, excellent! The authors have a gift for developing the topic of JSP, Servlets, and building a Java-based ecommerce site in a methodical, easy-to-understand approach."

Now, I'm delighted to tell you that you'll feel the same way about this new, 2nd edition. The content has been redone from start to finish, so you'll learn the best features, tools, and techniques for developing today's web applications (see what's NEW below).

But our popular approach hasn't changed: This 2nd edition still presents Java web programming in a way that's methodical, easy to understand, and easy to apply to your own web development projects (see what's the same below).

What you'll learn in this book
If you look at the table of contents, you'll see that this book teaches all the skills you need to develop almost any type of Java web application today. The chapters gradually move from the simple to the complex as they show you how to work with:

• the Tomcat servlet/JSP container
  
• the NetBeans IDE
  
• HTML pages and forms
  
• JSPs, servlets, and the MVC pattern
  
• sessions and cookies
  
• JavaBeans
  
• the JSP Expression Language (EL)
  
• the JSP Standard Tag Library (JSTL)
  
• custom JSP tags
  
• MySQL, JDBC, and connection pooling
  
• JavaMail
  
• SSL and secure connections
  
• authentication
  
• advanced HTTP skills
  
• listeners
  
• filters

To complete your training, section 5 presents an e-commerce web site that puts these skills into context. Once you understand how this web site works, you will have all the skills and code you need to start creating your own custom web applications.