Head First Servlets and JSP: Passing the Sun Certified Web Component Developer Exam

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I've been toying with Java EE servlets and JSPs off and on for 7 years but always had lots of questions and few answers and no book inspired me to keep reading, until now.This book makes learning Java fun and its "There are no stupid questions" Q & A interspersed throughout each chapter has an amazing ability to ask, then answer, exactly the same questions I am having at that point. The diagrams do a phenomenal job of explaining what happens in the path from user to server and back. They spend pages and pages just explaining what the HttpServletRequest and HttpServletResponse objects are!The humorous photos with captions keep me reading... on the bus as I commute to work... during my lunch break... on the bus ride home... in the evenings at home. I had planned to read Malcolm Gladwell's "blink" next, but that novel sits on the shelf at home as I continue to plow through this delightful entity. My previous attempt to learn this material was "Servlets and JavaServer Pages: The J2EE Technology Web Tier" by Falkner & Jones, but that book is as dry as a college textbook, so I never really absorbed much. I highly recommend this "Head First Servlets & JSP"!

Great book

The book is written in style I've never experienced before, dude ;-) It is well structured and gives broad overview of J2EE web technologies. As it is stated on several places, it is aimed to prepare readers on Sun certification exam SCWCD plaform 5.0 and fully cover exam objectives. Therefore it goes to deeper details only in areas related to the exam. Reading of the book is everything but not boring experience and soft humor of nice book models will definitely relax your brain and/or stimulate concentration at the right moment ;-) After reading it I succeeded and passed the exam with great score.Small objections I have only to the chapter of design patterns, which could be more clear and precise in definitions and its mock exam questions. The chapter could be updated with the information about platform for each pattern, which is aimed to solve archit. problem for as there are differences between EJB 2.0 and 3.0. Most of patterns are focused on solving problems related to EJB 2.0 and are obsolete for newer version of standard. I miss also mentioning of JSF as component based MVC framework alternative to request driven Struts framework (front controller pattern). I was also a bit confused from the fact that URL rewriting is not required by the spec because it's not clearly stated in the text and the space it occupies in the book.But still, I'm giving 5 stars.

Head First Servlets and JSP: Passing the Sun Certified Web Component Developer Exam (Brain-Friendly Guides) Great introductory book into Servlets and JSPs. The authors didn't assume the reader knew much about web applications or what goes on in the background. With 1 year of Java knowledge/experience, I found this book easy to follow with the way it explained how things worked step by step, and by effectively using excellent diagrams and examples.I bought this book to learn about Servlets and JSPs, not necessarily to take the certification exam; and as such I would recommend this book to anyone who has little or no knowledge of servlets and JSPs, and wants to dive into the subject.

Fun way to revisit Servlets/JSP. I like their examples and analogies- like when they illustrate difference between send re-direct & forward/ include, makes the concept stick. No extensive code though or coding problems. Still this is where it all started- JEE- before Lamp & JS.

I jumped on to this one straight after finishing head first java and was satisfied with one more good book from head first team. There are some, who hate the unique approach used in head first books, where they treat you like a kid and spend ample time in testing your sense of humor. I personally don't like it that much, but guess, I am OK, as long as, some meaningful information is also passed along the way. I raised this topic, because every chapter has a prologue with a scene of random Japanese (or Korean) movie, with the actors thinking about the content in the chapter. Since I know this has always been the case with head first books, I was OK with that.As far as subject matter goes, the focus of this book seems to be on explaining the minute details and things that happened in background, being done by the container. This book will not help you to write an actual web application using servlets and jsps, but is a good reference for interviews, where the focus is more on how servlets and jsp work rather than what all you can do with servlets and jsps. However the book is full of the verse, "since this is not the exam and you will probably not need it", making it unsuitable as a complete reference book. In my opinion this book is very good for passing the exam, may be you can sell it on amazon after passing the exam.

This book is truly amazing. After reading each section, its like the author knows exactly what questions I am about to ask, since the answers are in the following section! It really "dumbs it down" the topic, which is great for people like me that need to know the why of the why. It is beautifully written and highly recommended.

Nice way of Blending technical delivery through story and pictures so that it is never boring and things stays in memory for longer time

Funny, worth it

The best book to study for Web Component Certification!essential to practice issues that fall in the Test!Worth it!

Ottimo manuale per la preparazione della vecchia certificazione Java EE5 Web Component.Gli interessati alla più aggiornata certificazione EE 6 (esame 1Z0-899) possono sicuramente utilizzare questo testo per costruire una solida conoscenza di base, tuttavia dovranno necessariamente integrare i contenuti attingendo alle specifiche ufficiali (Servlet 3.0) oppure procurandosi un altro testo come ad esempio il  Lyons: OCEJWCD Study Companion, 3ª edizione , che è più o meno aggiornato alla versione JEE6, anche se mancano comunque alcuni dettagli che potrebbero uscire all'esame (ecco perché converrebbe leggersi anche le specifiche).Il consiglio per superare agevolmente l'esame 1Z0-899 (JEE6) è di studiare su questo libro, integrare la preparazione con i capitoli 8, 11, 12 e 21 del  Lyons  e infine esercitarsi con delle simulazioni d'esame reperibili online (quelle di Enthuware ad esempio sono molto buone).Si noti che l'esame 1Z0-899 non richiede la parte di sviluppo di custom tag che invece è ampiamente trattata in entrambi i libri (attenzione: la parte su JSTL è invece assolutamente richiesta). Lyons: OCEJWCD Study Companion, 3ª edizioneLyons

I you want to pass on the OCWCD certification (old SCWCD), then read this book. It's funny (not boring) but with deep information. It really prepare us for the certification