Book Excerpts : Murach's Java Servlets and JSP (Second Edition) :

Murach's Java Servlets and JSP (Second Edition)

by Joel Murach and Andrea Steelman

The content in this second edition has been redone from start to finish, so you'll learn the best features, tools, and techniques for developing today's web applications. Murach's 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.

What You'll Learn in This Book

• 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

Download Chapter 11: "How to Use the JSP Standard Tag Library (JSTL)".

Reproduced from Murach's Java Servlets and JSP (Second Edition) by permission of Mike Murach & Associates, ISBN 1890774448, copyright 2008. All rights reserved.

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