Press Release
September 17, 2002
JSP 1.2 and JSTL: Increased Power for Web App Development: O'Reilly Releases New Edition of "JavaServer Pages"
Sebastopol, CA--There are some things you just can't ignore. Free food,
for instance. Or the plangent "meow" of a cat at your door. JavaServer
Pages technology has been equally hard for web developers and designers
to turn their backs on, having provided a much-needed
solution--especially for non-hardcore programmers--to the challenges of
creating dynamic web pages. JSP uses a component-based approach that
allows web developers to easily combine static HTML with Java
components for dynamic features. The simplicity of this component-based
model, combined with the cross-platform power of Java, allows a web
development environment with enormous potential. The new edition of
JavaServer
Pages by Hans Bergsten (O'Reilly, US $44.95), revised and
updated to cover substantial changes in the JSP specification, shows
developers how they can use the compelling power of Java servlets to
create their own effective and hard-to-ignore web applications.
"JavaServer Pages, Second Edition" provides detailed coverage of
Version 1.2 of the JSP specification, including the important new JSP
Standard Tag Library (JSTL). Bergsten notes that the release of JSTL
1.0 specification in 2001 began a new phase for JSP developers. "JSTL
answers developers' demand for a set of standardized JSP custom actions
to handle the tasks needed in almost all JSP pages, including
conditional processing, internationalization, database access, and XML
processing," Bergsten explains. "This will speed up JSP development by
more or less eliminating the need for scripting elements and the
inevitable hard-to-find syntax errors, and by freeing up time
previously spent on developing and learning zillions of
project-specific custom actions for these common tasks."
Bergsten shows developers how to use all the JSP standard elements and
features, including elements for accessing JavaBeans components;
separating the processing over multiple pages to increase reusability
and simplify maintenance, and sharing information between pages,
requests, and users. Readers learn how to use JSTL for tasks such as
conditional processing, integration of database data,
internationalization, and XML processing, as well as how to develop
their own custom components for tasks not covered by the standard
components.
The examples in "JavaServer Pages, Second Edition" guide developers
through solutions to common JSP design problems, from basic issues,
such as retrieving and validating user input, to more advanced areas,
such as developing a database-driven site, authenticating users,
providing personalized content, caching data, and implementing
internationalization.
"JavaServer Pages, Second Edition" was written for anyone who is
interested in using JSP technology to develop web applications, from
page authors wanting to use JSP elements in web pages, to programmers
concerned with learning the JSP API and using JSP effectively in an
enterprise application. Regardless of their objectives, readers will
benefit from Hans Bergsten's vast expertise to make the most of
JavaServer Pages technology.
What the critics said about the first edition:
"An excellent printed resource on JSPs, unsurprisingly called
'JavaServer Pages' written by Hans Bergsten...I have been extremely
impressed by its depth, clarity, and attention to detail."
--Reuven M. Lerner, "Linux Journal," May 2001
"Overall, this book provides good instruction of JSP technology; it
just presents the concepts in a different--and in my opinion--a better
way. Four out of five stars."
--John Zukowski, IBM Developerworks, June 2001
"This book is both well informed and well organized. It provides
experts with invaluable tips and insights, while newcomers will find
all they need to assess and implement their first JSP
applications."
--Tim Anderson, Amazon.co.uk
"It will definitely be a well-used reference from my bookshelf."
--Carl Trusiak, Javaranch.com, February 2001
"This is a great book: it was written by a key contributor not only to
the JSP specification, but also to the JSP and Servlet reference
implementations. Filled with useful examples, it stands as an important
text in the adoption of JSP in the market."
--Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart, lead JSP Specification Engineer
Additional resources:
JavaServer Pages, 2nd Edition
Hans Bergsten
ISBN 0-596-00317-x, 684 pages, $44.95 (US), $69.95 (CAN)
order@oreilly.com
1-800-998-9938; 1-707-827-7000
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