Best book ever for learning Java Server Pages (JSP) and Servlets
I enjoy watching the continuously improving teaching trends on various technologies. For example the textbooks these days seem much better than the ones I used in engineering school. Tried and true teaching techniques incorporated and better examples. I recently came across this new Heads First Servlets and JSP book in the O'Reilly series. My gosh. I couldn't put this book down. Such a fresh and comprehensive approach to the subject while making it fun to learn. The explanation on Struts for example: so simple, so obvious, so 'why didn't anyone explain it like this before'. If you're interested in catching up on the latest Java web progamming tools and the basics of MVC architecture.. go get this book now. All the basics plus a good section on EL which is supported in Tomcat 5.0.
[PS: for learning Java itself, I still think the best book of all time is Java Objects by Jacquie Barker. The Heads First Java book seems well done as well.]
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