beginning developers javaserver development

books:

Professional JSP : Using JavaServer Pages, Servlets, EJB, JNDI, JDBC, XML, XSLT, and WML

27 reviews
Karl Avedal, Danny Ayers, ...

Wrox Press, 2000

Comprehensive
The most comprehensive book I've ever read about JSP! Must have for JSP developer

Professional .NET for Java Developers Using C#

5 reviews
Erick Sgarbi, Jack Lunn, ...

Wrox Press, 2002

Good quick read
I've been working with Java and JSP Pages for a few years but my company's looking more and more at .NET and I was told to look into it. I'd heard a lot about it's similarity with Java, and so this book seemed a natural starting point. I wasn't dissapointed. It quickly ran through the important parts of .NET and how they related to what I already knew in Java: C# instead of Java, ASP.NET instead ...

Beginning JSP Web Development

14 reviews
Jayson Falkner, John Timney, ...

Wrox Press, 2001

good but needs more examples
This book is a solid introduction that covers all the key basics. Be aware that over half the book is spent teaching Java, not JSP. Since I already know the basics of java, the numerous Java chapters were a distraction to the main point of JSP/Servlet programming. Also, being a beginner to JSP, I have to agree with an earlier reviewer that the book hurries on to each next chapter with only the ...

Professional Windows Forms

3 reviews
Jason Bell, Benny B. Johansen, ...

Peer Information Inc., 2001

A good treatise on windows forms
With practically every book on .NET focusing (screaming ?) on Web Services and ASP.NET, this book is a welcome addition to those like me who write classic applications .. this book has been written wrox-style, with several code samples and a logical progression of content .. since this book has been published before VS.NET release, one can run into minor problems in running the code with the ...