Core Java Web Server

I thought this was a very complete book on Servlets, even though the title reads "Core Java Web Server". Yes, it does cover the Java Web Server, but most of the book covers what the Java Web Server is known for- servlets, servlets, and more servlets !!!Personally, I develop servlets and deploy them on Apache Web Server. Some of the early chapters of this book cover the Java Web Server, but a lot of this material applies to Apache- since you can learn about common features known to web servers in general. Good coverage of HTTP too! The coverage on HTTP saved me from buying another book on HTTP. I sat at B & N until closing time reading the chapter on HTTP and the HTTP spec and learned lots of good information. Don't forget to read the chapter on Caching too! It will boost your performance and increase your browser's download time after having visited your site for the first time.I really enjoyed the great coverage of servlets and richness of information in related topics, such as HTTP, XML, security, and other useful topics.Thanks for such a great book :-).

This is an excellent book from start to end. I don't own the Java Web Server, so I use Apache with JRun and the examples in this book work great with my environment. A significant amount of the examples that I saw on the SUN site included HTTP servlets that did the bulk of their work by overriding the service method. When I read the chapter on HTTP servlets I learned how to extend the HttpServlet class and how to override the doGet, doPost and other methods to "cleanly" support different HTTP methods. This was worth the price of the book by itself. I didn't understand everything in the Http Servlet chapter until I went back and read the chapter on the HTTP protocol. That was very useful as well.There are examples in this book that I've never seen before. For example, I never knew what JNDI was and I always wanted to learn XML. This book has great coverage of both JNDI and XML and shows you how to code servlets that use this powerful technology. I don't know much about object oriented programming either. This book introduced me to a significant amount of programming paradigms called "design patterns" that are very useful. There is a chapter on session management that uses a design pattern called "state" to provide a very unique and very extendable architecture for a JNDI-based servlet. I am employing this exact architecture in my own project and it works extremely well and is very extendable. The authors of this book really put their minds together to produce a book that includes a unique set of examples that cannot be found elsewhere.I recommended this book to a friend that is a Security guru (a topic which I know nothing about). He said the coverage on Security was excellent.I would strongly recommend this book to anyone that wants to make a living programming servlets like I do.

I read this book, and I found it a refreshing change from other web books that cover the *same* "shopping card applications" and "how to make efficient JDBC calls from a servlet" topics. For instance, in the Appendix on XML, the authors write a servlet that generates CDF files for an entire web site. As someone who already knows how to do JDBC, I found this to be a good example of how much different this book was from other servlet books (and I think you will too).

Core Java Web Server is excellent because it covers, in detail, the basics of running a Java Web Server, and also fully explains innovative and interesting uses of the server. Both the language and examples show a clear attempt to communicate to readers of all levels, from the beginner to the advanced Java programmer. (The text itself is written in a light manner, not too complicated, but also not insultingly simple.) The book is also commendable because it doesn't shy away from errors - any errors encountered by the authors are explained to the readers, with the appropriate workarounds.The book begins with a discussion of the installation and configuration of the Java Web Server. These configuration comments are also sprinkled throughout the rest of the book where necessary. I particularly appreciated that it was explained how to make each configuration through the graphical user interface, and through text files.The heart of the book covers Java servletts. Each chapter introduces a new aspect of servletts, with descriptions of the classes and methods used, and an example. The examples are working servletts, all with full source code and documentation, which occasionally build upon previous examples to construct sizeable programs. The examples themselves are inventive and new. For instance, rather than introduce another shopping cart script, the chapter on HTTP sessions implements an LDAP interface. It greatly broadened my knowledge on an important topic which is becoming a great force on the internet.All in all, I enjoyed the book, and would recommend it to anyone interested in Java or web programming.

This is an excellent coverage of the Java Web server. If you are at all interested in SERVLETS, I recommend that you buy this book. You may or may not want to actually use Java Web server for deployment, but you get a great explanation of servlets and lots of info on the JWS to help you make a decision which web server to use. The discussion on Java/HTML page compilation is also interesting. If you currently use ASP, you owe it to yourself to check out servlets and server-side scripting in Java, to see another solution with perhaps less glitz and instant gratification, but a lot more robustness and scalability.I'd like to contradict the gentleman from Hawaii--I don't work at Sun and never used JWS before, and I found the book very easy to read. You do have to know Java, of course. If you read Core Java, you will definitely be able to follow this book.