Aimed at those with some previous Java experience, Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages covers all you need to know to create effective Web applications using server-side Java. Combining plenty of practical advice with detailed information on these APIs, this book provides both the necessary background on Web programming and guidance on using Java effectively to power your Web site. Topics covered: Overview of Java servlets and JavaServer Pages (JSPs), servlets vs. CGI and ASPs, survey of servlet products, installation and configuration hints, using packages with servlets, the servlet life cycle, initialization parameters, debugging tips, HTML form basics, submitting and processing form variables, HTTP request and response headers, standard CGI variables, HTTP status codes, using cookies, session tracking with servlets, e-commerce example, JSP scripting elements and attributes, including files, using applets, JavaBeans and tag libraries with JSPs, strategies for combining servlets and JSPs effectively, database and JDBC tutorial, and connecting pooling.

Web Development with JavaServer Pages will teach you how to create dynamic content-personalized, customized, and up-to-the minute content-a key ingredient of site development on the World Wide Web today. JavaServer Pages (JSP) is a new server-side Java technology for generating dynamic content in web pages and other on-line applications. This book covers all aspects of JSP development, as well as comparisons to similar dynamic content systems such as CGI, Active Server Pages, Cold Fusion, and PHP. It clearly demonstrates the advantages offered by JSP as a full-featured, cross-platform, vendor-neutral technology for dynamic content generation.

Readers can cut to the chase with this new, updated "must have" guide to Java and object-oriented programming. "Just Java 2" contains all the essential information any programmer needs to get started with Java. The CD-ROM includes a huge amount of Java source code including many Java games, some physics applets (animation of an electric motor), translators for Java and many other languages including C/C++, Perl, TCL, Eiffel, Smalltalk, two mini-versions of Linux, Java bible code software, the Java Programmers FAQ and glossary, and much, much more.

Beginning Java 2 has a detailed introduction to the Java Foundation Classes (JFC), a vast set of graphics functionality including Java2D and Swing, which makes developing windowed applications much easier. It also covers the new Collections API, a bunch of container classes for representing and handling other Java objects, and has up-to-date coverage of threads, serialization and JDBC 2.0. The revised edition of the best-selling introductory Java book Beginning Java has been thoroughly updated for the Java 2 platform and the JDK 1.2 release. The book still teaches Java from scratch, assuming only basic programming know-how and in a tutorial format, but it now takes a slightly different route through the Java class libraries.