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Web Development with JavaServer Pages, 2nd Edition

The second edition of the bestselling Web Development with JavaServer Pages updates and expands the original. In the entirely rewritten first part of the book the authors provide a gentle introduction to the important technologies on which JSP depends. The book then launches into its updated coverage of the JSP 1.2 and Servlet 2.3 standards. New chapters on servlet filters, tag-library validation, and non-HTML content are filled with fresh examples.

This second edition shares the strengths of the first, based on the authors' substantial experience with real-world development. The book covers the complete feature set of JSP 1.2, and both the advantages and the "gotchas" associated with those features. Its depth of coverage has been an important contributor to this book's success.

You'll learn how to use databases in web applications, how to separate the look of a web page from its underlying business logic, and even how to design elegant and scalable application architectures. You can learn from and modify the many examples to get up to speed quickly. And you will develop a deep understanding of JSP technology.

What's inside:

• HTTP and Java Servlets
• Dynamic web scripting
• Tag-based JSP programming
• Custom tags
• JSP components
• Servlet- and page-centric application designs
• Working with databases
• Servlet filters
• JSP for non-HTML content
• Tons of examples and real code

Developing JSP components

This chapter covers

• The JavaBeans API
• Developing your own JSP components
• Mixing scriptlets and Beans

This chapter will help developers create their own JavaBeans for use as JSP communion, and teach web designers how they are implemented behind the scenes. Fortunately, it is not necessary to understand all of the details of JavaBeans development to work with JSP. As component architectures go, the interface between JavaServer Pages and JavaBeans is quite simple, as we will see.

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