JSP book recommendations

[DWW]

I've been using Java for a few months and want learn JSP for an open source project I'm going to begin this fall.

I found this book (Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages) on Amazon.com and it seems to have plenty of high reviews.

Has anyone read this? Any other books I'll need?

So far I've just read "The Java Programming Language" and "Effective Java" which are both great books for learning the language IMO.

 

[DWW]

No JSP coders on anandtech?

 

[manly]

This is pretty good. I haven't looked in a while, but the Manning book was great a few years ago.

 

[kamper]

That book is quite good, I bought it at one point but ended up returning it. It is for jsp 1.2 I believe and 2.0 is in use now. I'd wager you'll be using tomcat and probably 5.x so you might want to learn the newer stuff. What is the project btw?

I also have the JavaServer Pages book from O'Reilly. It's good too but it's aimed at non-programmers like web designers. It avoids actual java at all costs and focuses on using tag libraries and the expression language (quite flaky imho). Anyways, it's a pretty interesting look at another way to write jsps. It is actually a decent example to follow because that style of writing will keep business logic out of the scripted pages and in the servlets or further back where it belongs.

 

[DWW]

Kamper -- there is a 2nd edition of the book available now if you notice on Amazon, published in August 2003. I'm guessing you had the older one?

The new one covers servlets 2.4 and JSP 2.0 it says.

As far as what the project is--I'll tell you when it is done

 

[kamper]

I had the second edition, pretty sure...