Looking to study up for the new J2EE 1.5 Sun Certified Web Component Developer (SCWCD) exam? This book will get you way up to speed on the technology you'll know it so well, in fact, that you can pass the brand new J2EE 1.5 exam. If that's what you want to do, that is. Maybe you don't care about the exam, but need to use servlets and JSPs in your next project. You're working on a deadline. You're over the legal limit for caffeine. You can't waste your time with a book that makes sense only AFTER you're an expert (or worse, one that puts you to sleep). Learn how to write servlets and JSPs, what makes a web container tick (and what ticks it off), how to use JSP's Expression Language (EL for short), and how to write deployment descriptors for your web applications. Master the c:out tag, and get a handle on exactly what's changed since the older J2EE 1.4 exam. You don't just pass the new J2EE 1.5 SCWCD exam, you'll understand this stuff and put it to work immediately. Head First Servlets and JSP doesn't just give you a bunch of facts to memorize; it drives knowledge straight into your brain. You'll interact with servlets and JSPs in ways that help you learn quickly and deeply. And when you're through with the book, you can take a brand-new mock exam, created specifically to simulate the real test-taking experience.

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Bought it, read it, passed the exam, but hate this book! - 2009-07-22
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I bought this book as a recommendation from many people for it's nice and easy approach to passing the exam. So I started reading it without any preconceived thoughts towards it, as the pages went by the more I got pissed off, the style, the bad jokes, the questions about topics not covered at all in the chapters. Also the index is horrendous, you can't search anything, the book has no logical layout, it's not good at all as a reference book, just try to find a concept(if you're lucky enough for it to appear in the book) where is it? oh yes surely in one of those hand script notes next to a picture of some guy telling the prefabricated experiences of the real servlets & jsp.
It's no good book for reference, you won't be using it after passing the exam, so just lend it from some friend. Don't waste your money on this, better buy some book of a MVC framework or whatever.

Get Murach's Book Instead - 2009-10-06
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Head First Servlets & JSP hardly lends itself as a resource to the working developer. Using JSP and Servlets for the past year, I initially purchased this book to support my primary job task, but was surely disappointed. The scattered and cartoon drawings throughout the book distract the reader from focusing on the core aspects of JSP and Servlets. Moreover, it lends little help for actually getting up and running with JSPs in a working environment. Rather it focuses on how to pass an exam, but even at this endeavor, the book is just too frivolous and distracting. I returned the book immediately and picked up a copy of Murach's JSP and Servlets instead. You will not be disappointed with Murach - he does everything that this book doesn't.

Excellent book - 2009-09-03
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the book is heavy, has a lot of information and helps you make it through the sun's certification exam. recommended

Nice buy! - 2009-07-19
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Even though the book was used, it was in a very nice shape. No torn or bent pages and no markings. Just as the seller said. I am very happy with my purchase. Thanks!

Dude, it's worth to read it! - 2009-05-08
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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.

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