Apress Beginning JSP, JSF and Tomcat: Java Web Development

Gostei muito do livro, excelente referência de entrada para o tema Tomcat, mesmo JSP que já é considerado substituido pelo JSF ou Thymeleaf é tema que merece atenção pois ainda é amplamente utilizado, inclusive em projetos novos pela simplificado de implantação e farta documentação e referências.

Ottimo manuale vivamente consigliato, sia per come vengono trattati gli argomenti che sono esposti in modo comprensibile sia per la presenza di trucchetti per la programmazione.

O livro é um bom resumo das tecnologias envolvidas e dá uma boa base para um guia de estudo. Porém não aprofunda nenhum tópico e dificilmente você sairá programando para web (caso seja realmente iniciante).

What I liked most about this book is that it gives you a hands-on, real-world, example application to create. And like most example applications I've seen in the technical books I read, this one is a shopping application. The author takes you through three different variations of the application, the third one being more JSF-like that is XML-based. As this version seems more "modern", I spent most of my time understanding that example...but I had to get through the first few chapters that build up to it.The book also has you construct a simple shopping database using MySQL to support your example applications. You don't need to be a MySQL expert to set this up, however. Another plus is that the author takes you through the basics of how the Tomcat server is constructed. I've always been afraid to peer inside the folders of this server, but after reading this book I have more confidence in messing with the context.xml and server.xml files.

I came frome php and .Net world and I needed to learn the basic of Java Web development very quickly, without "useless" theory and fancy tales.This book is perfect: in a bunch of pages you have an example of a simple JSP - MVC application you can use as a base to create your own applications.Actually this book explains four versions of the same application:1 - traditional JSP (very simple)2 - JSP using the MCV design pattern (cool!)3 - XML version (imho an useless effort)4 - JSF (I haven't studied this part yet)I'm happy with the second version so in a very short time I started to be productive.What I don't like of this book:a) the font used by Apress manuals, it's so hard to readb) it's a bit too raw...I had difficulties to understand some parts, I had to search elsewhere on the webc) the e-commerce application you create is incomplete and too far from the real worldd) the back cover says: "even if you are a complete newcomer to java"...ehm, actually the author assumes you already know the basic of Java programming (which I didn't).I've enjoyed this book but if I had had more time maybe I would have picked up another one, longer and with more explanation.