In early 1996, I started using the Java programming language for the majority of my software development work. I did some CGI programming and even worked a little with the early servlet versions, but for the most part I did desktop and client-side applications. Over the last couple of
years, however, there has been a growing emphasis on server-side applications,so I became more serious about servlets and JavaServer Pages. In the past year,there has been a virtual stampede toward the technology among developers,server vendors, and the authors of the Java platform specifications. So much so,in fact, that the technology is rapidly becoming the standard tool for building dynamic Web sites and connecting Web front ends to databases and applications on a server.
Unfortunately, however, it was extremely difficult to find good practical advice on servlet and JSP development. I found a number of servlet books, but only a handful of them covered recent versions of the specification, advanced techniques, or reflected real-world experience. The few that did, if they covered JSP at all, hadn’t caught up to JSP 1.0, let alone JSP 1.1. Since JSP is a better fit than servlets for many situations, what good was a servlet book that didn’t also cover JSP? In the last couple of months, some JSP books have started coming out. But the bulk of them don’t cover servlets. What good is that? Since an integral part of JavaServer Pages is the use of scripting elements to create servlet code, you can’t do effective JSP development without a thorough understanding of servlets.
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