Good Book for Beginners

JavaServer Pages by Larne Pekowsky is geared to the Web designer instead of the Java developer. In the book, there is a tutorial on creating a JSP web site with dynamic content. The book is easy to read and shows the reader how to create a web site using JSP. The book introduces aspects of JSP as needed for the tutorial web site.

The second half of the book introduces the Java code needed for the tags in the first half of the book. It starts with a short chapter on writing Java code, and then introduces Java Beans, Servlets, and JSPs. This section provides as basic introduction to JSP programming. Also, the section introduces the MVC design pattern.

This is is more geared for web designers who want to learn JSP and not for a Java programmer who want to learn JSP. Advanced topics of JSP are not fully covered in this book, so this book is not a complete reference. I would recommend this book to someone just learning JSP.

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