Beginning JavaServer Pages -- About the Authors -- Credits -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- The Right Way to Do Web Development -- Approach -- How This Book Is Structured -- Conventions -- Source Code -- Errata -- p2p. wrox. com -- Part I: JSP Fundamentals -- Chapter 1: Getting Started with JavaServer Pages -- Creating Applications for the Internet -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 2: JSP Basics 1: Dynamic Page Creation for Data Presentation -- The Anatomy of a JSP Page -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 3: JSP Basics 2: Generalized Templating and Server Scripting -- Scripting Elements for Java Code Embedding -- Creating a Simple Web Storefront -- Adding a Shopping Cart to a Catalog -- Creating the Shopping Cart -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 4: CSS, JavaScript, VBScript, and JSP -- Code Elements That Execute on the Client Side -- User Preference Implementation -- Creating a User-Customizable DHTML Menu -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 5: JSP and EL -- EL and Its Vital Role in JSP -- EL Named Variables -- Applying EL -- Coercion: Automatic Type Conversion -- Accessing Object Properties and Collections -- Implicit EL Objects in JSP 2.0 -- User-Supplied Functions within EL -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 6: JSP Tag Libraries and JSTL -- The Vital Role of JSP Tag Libraries -- The JSP Standard Tag Library -- Anatomy of a Tag Library -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 7: JSP Directives -- Directive Basics -- The page Directive -- The taglib Directive -- The include Directive -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 8: JSP Standard Actions -- JSP Standard Actions Are Built-in Tags -- Actions for Working with JavaBeans -- Including JSP Output via -- Transferring Control Between JSPs -- Specifying Parameters for Other Actions -- Working with Plug-ins -- Standard Actions Specific to Tag Files -- Summary -- Exercises.

Chapter 9: JSP and JavaBeans -- Anatomy of a JavaBean -- How JavaBeans and EJBs Differ -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 10: Error Handling -- Understanding the Origin of Errors -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 11: Building Your Own Custom JSP Tag Library -- What Is a Tag File? -- A Simple Tag File: Displaying Today's Date -- Advantages of Tag Files -- Developing Tag Files -- Packaging Tag Files -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 12: Advanced Dynamic Web Content Generation -- Data Validation in Web Applications -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 13: Internationalization and Localized Content -- About Internationalization-Ready Applications -- Internationalization and Localization -- Building on the Java Platform's i18n Capabilities -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 14: JSP Debugging Techniques -- The Science of Debugging -- Catching Bugs at Compile Time -- Using a Debugging System versus a Production System -- Using System.out.println() to Instrument Code -- Using a Logging System -- Debugging with Tools -- Debugging Code in Production Environments -- Finding the Intermittent Problem -- Avoiding Concurrency Issues -- Summary -- Exercises -- Part II: JSP and Modern Web Server Software Development -- Chapter 15: JSPs and Servlets -- A JSP Is a Servlet -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 16: The Role of JSP in the Wider Context: Web Applications -- What Is a Web Application? -- Directory Structure for a Web Application -- The Deployment Descriptor -- Using a Web Archive -- Development and Deployment Strategies -- Packaging and Deploying for Tomcat -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 17: Model View Controller -- What Is MVC? -- MVC and Web Applications -- Summary -- Exercise -- Chapter 18: Web Frameworks -- What Is a Framework? -- Why Frameworks Are Good -- Types of Frameworks -- WebWork -- The Spring Framework -- Summary -- Exercises.

Chapter 19: Struts Framework -- Introducing Struts -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 20: Layout Management with Tiles -- Introduction to Tiles -- Tile Scope -- Definitions -- Tiles Tags -- Passing Parameters to Tiles -- Advanced Tiles -- Tiles and Struts -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 21: JavaServer Faces -- Configuring a JSF Project -- Getting Started with JSF -- JSF Lifecycle -- Validating Data -- Converting Data -- Handling Events with Listeners -- JSF versus Struts -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 22: JSP in J2EE -- Overview of J2EE -- J2EE Technologies -- Using JSP with J2EE Components -- EJB -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 23: Access to Databases -- Introduction to Databases -- Building Applications -- Different Types of Applications -- Using Hibernate -- Summary -- Chapter 24: Security -- Areas of Security -- Data Integrity and Confidentiality -- Authentication -- Authorization -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 25: Performance -- Performance Concepts -- Measuring Performance Using JMeter -- Performance Tuning Tips -- Summary -- Chapter 26: Best Practices and Tools -- Development Methodologies -- Development Tools -- Apache Ant -- CVS -- JUnit -- HttpUnit -- Best Practices for Web Development -- Summary -- Exercises -- Part III: Spreading Your New Wings: Applying JSP in the Real World -- Chapter 27: JSP Project I: Personalized Portal -- The Portal Project -- Project Features -- The Application Design -- The Development Environment -- The Application -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 28: JSP Project II: Shopping Cart Application -- The Bookstore Project -- Application Design -- The Development Environment and Its Configuration -- The Application -- Summary -- Exercises -- Part IV: Appendixes -- Appendix A: JSP Syntax Reference -- Scoping -- Implicit Objects -- Directives -- Actions -- Scripting Elements.

Appendix B: JSP Expression Language Reference -- EL Expressions -- Accessing Arrays, Maps, Object Properties, and Collections -- Elements of EL Expressions -- Type Conversions -- Implicit Objects -- Appendix C: JSTL Reference -- JSTL Core Tags -- JSTL XML Tags -- JSTL Formatting Tags -- JSTL SQL Tags -- JSTL Functions -- Appendix D: Exercise Solutions -- Chapter 1 Exercises -- Chapter 2 Exercises -- Chapter 3 Exercises -- Chapter 4 Exercises -- Chapter 5 Exercises -- Chapter 6 Exercises -- Chapter 7 Exercises -- Chapter 8 Exercises -- Chapter 9 Exercises -- Chapter 10 Exercises -- Chapter 11 Exercises -- Chapter 12 Exercises -- Chapter 13 Exercises -- Chapter 14 Exercises -- Chapter 15 Exercises -- Chapter 16 Exercises -- Chapter 17 Exercises -- Chapter 18 Exercises -- Chapter 19 Exercises -- Chapter 20 Exercises -- Chapter 21 Exercises -- Chapter 22 Exercises -- Chapter 24 Exercises -- Chapter 26 Exercises -- Chapter 27 Exercises -- Chapter 28 Exercises -- Index.