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TITLE
| | Java Servlet Programming
| | EDITION
| | 1st
| | ISBN
| | 1-56592-391-X
| | AUTHOR(S)
| | Jason Hunter, William Crawford
| | PUBLISHER
| | O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
| | PUBLISHED
| | 1998
| | LEVEL(S)
| | 2 to 4 [about levels]
| | This edition has been replaced
| | Order current edition from amazon.com
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| SYNOPSIS |
A few years ago, the hype surrounding applets put Java on the map as a programming language for the Web. Today, Java servlets stand poised to take Java to the next level as a web development language. Java Servlet Programming covers the Java Servlet API, a standard extension to Java that provides a generic mechanism for extending the functionality of any kind of server. As the book explains, however, servlets are most commonly used to extend web servers, performing tasks traditionally handled by CGI programs. Web servers that can support servlets include Apache, Netscape's FastTrack and Enterprise Servers, Microsoft's IIs, O'Reilly's WebSite, and JavaSoft's Java Web Server. Servlets offer a fast, powerful, portable, replacement for CGI scripts. Servlets execute within the web server's process space and they persist between invocations, which gives them tremendous performance benefits over CGI programs. Servlets have full access to the various Java APIs and to third-party component classes, making them ideal for use in communicating with applets, databases, and RMI servers. Best of all, servlets are portable among operating systems and among servers -- with servlets you can "write once, serve everywhere." Java Servlet Programming covers everything you need to know to write effective servlets and includes numerous examples that you can use as the basis for our own servlets. The book explains the servlet life cycle, showing how you can use servlets to maintain state information effortlessly. It also describes how to serve dynamic web content, including both HTML pages and multimedia data. Finally, it explores more advanced topics like integrated session tracking, efficient database connectivity using JDBC, applet-servlet communication, interservlet communication, and internationalization.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
| | Jason Hunter | Jason Hunter is Senior Technologist with CollabNet, a company that provides tools and services for open source style collaboration. In addition to authoring Java Servlet Programming, he is publisher of Servlets.com, creator of the com.oreilly.servlet library, a contributor to the Apache Jakarta project that creates Tomcat (starting on the project when it was still Sun internal), a member of the expert groups responsible for Servlet/JSP and JAXP API development, and he holds a seat on the JCP Executive Committee overseeing the Java platform, as a representative of the Apache Software Foundation. He also writes columns for JavaWorld, and speaks at many programming and open source conferences. Most recently he co-created the open source JDOM library to enable optimized Java and XML integration, and he leads the expert group responsible for JDOM development.
Jason graduated summa cum laude from Willamette University (Salem, Oregon) in 1995 with a degree in computer science. He began programming in Java in the summer of 1995 and has been involved with servlets and related server-side technologies since December 1996. If by some miracle you don't find him at work, he's probably out hiking in the mountains. | | William Crawford | William "Will" Crawford got involved with Web development back in 1995. He has worked at the Children's Hospital Informatics Program in Boston, where he helped develop the first Web-based electronic medical record system and was involved in some of the first uses of Java at the enterprise level. He has consulted on intranet development projects for, among others, Children's Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital, the Boston Anesthesia Education Foundation, and Harvard Medical Center. |
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