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Head First Servlets and JSP: Passing the Sun Certified Web Component Developer Exam

From O'Reilly Media

Binding : Paperback
DeweyDecimalNumber : 005.376
EAN : 9780596516680
Edition : 2
ISBN : 0596516681
Label : O'Reilly Media
Manufacturer : O'Reilly Media
NumberOfPages : 912
ProductTypeName : ABIS_BOOK
PublicationDate : 2008-03-25
Publisher : O'Reilly Media
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Summary: perfect
Comment: The seller did a amazing working. the product was shipped in the same day that I paid. thanks
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Summary: The book helped me a lot
Comment: The book helped me a lot with my J2EE studies. Everything is being explained in very friendly and understandable way.
I'd like the book to include also explanations about the work with Data Bases though.
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Summary: Good book but not complete
Comment: It is a good book but to get the J2EE 5 Web Component Developer certificate you must use other resources. Nevertheless, I would say that I learned a lot reading this book and it wouldn't be fair to grade it with 4 stars. I recommend this book for people who don't know nothing about web development using Java. However, if you want to be an expert you should read other books for complementing the knowledge.
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Summary: Excellent book on Servlets & JSP
Comment: The Head First series is like a seal of quality, its friendly approach and way of explaining concepts just show that. And Head First Servlets & JSP is no different.

The book is recommended for those who want to learn JEE (the web part), but if you have to have some background on Java, if you don't buy Head First Java first!

The book starts showing some concepts on the Internet, how servers work, pages and HTML. ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC! They can make computers look much simpler and easy to learn.
Then, they show some simple web app. and explain it, then you'll see that this small app. got some problems (the HTML and Java code are mixed, making it painfully hard to maintain and understand) so they introduce other concepts like JSP, and they progress, showing that scriptlets in JSP are terrible too, so they present JSTL and so on. Even Enterprise Design Patterns are covered.

I found the book covers pretty well all the non-framework part of JEE, that is just Sun technology, no Struts, JSF, Hibernate, Spring, etc. But that's an excellent intro for Java Enterprise Edition. And of course, probably the best book for the Sun Certified Web Components Developer (SCWCD), with a lot of exercises in the last pages of each chapter. Every topic for the SCWCD is covered.

Definitely recommended!
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Summary: SCWCD
Comment: This book was very helpful for me, I passed the exam in the first time