Learning JSP

I am an experienced (20 yrs +) software developer, but I am new to the Java Platform and JSP.
What would you suggest to be the best, and most current, reference textbook to supplement the JSP tutorial. I'm looking for clarifying examples, advanced JSP concepts, and best practices within JSP and its enabeling technologies. I want the book that will take me to a skill level beyond that which is presented in the tutorial.
Thank you,
Jim

I recommend the Core Servlets and JSP series by Marty Hall.
The book is available as a free PDF download (albeit rather large) from http://www.coreservlets.com/
Good luck.

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Marty Hall's books are "Core Servlets and JSPs" and "More Core Servlets and JSPs":
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0130092290/qid=1064446032/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/103-9847449-3205453
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I think the best JSP book out there is Hans Bergsten's JSP book from O'Reilly. It has you using JSTL right from the first example, which is the right way to do JSPs IMO.
Tomcat runs on Windows. You don't need Linux.
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Excellent advise, though for absolute beginners "Beginning JSP" might be a better choice.
b.t.w. odonata, is there good reason to get the 2nd edition for people who already have the 1st edition?
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www.jspin.com
www.jspindex.com
www.code4u.com
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whats up guys i want to expand my language base so i
am planning to learn jsp.
so i wanted to ask a few questions
1. what is needed for me to code in jsp i heard that
jsp is similar to asp so i am guessing i can code jsp
pages in dreamweaver right?I don't know ASP, but the little I do know tells me that it's not a perfect analogy. JSP is not ASP, especially if you keep scriptlet code out of your pages. I recommend that you do.
I don't use Dreamweaver, so I don't know. Our UI developers use Dreamweaver to generate HTML pages, and then we add the dynamic part for JSP.
2. can iis be used as the webserver for the jsp page.
or do i need a new webserverWeb servers like Apache and IIS know nothing about JSP or servlets. You need a servlet/JSP engine. Any Java EE container will have one. A free one that you can download is Tomcat:
http://tomcat.apache.org
3. can anyone point me to some good tutorialsGoogle for one. I don't know what's best or up to date anymore, because it's been a while since I first learned JSPs.
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you can visit www.coreservlets.com / it is a great site, and there you can download a pdf version of Core Servlets and Java Server Pages, which is really good book to start learning JSP and servlet technology. In addition www.javaranch.com, is another good site, where you can find a lot of useful links
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Hi ..
GO to website www.Apache.org
down load Apache tomcat server .
install it ...
Go to sun site
c and download jsp tutorials ...
Go to
(www.coreservlets.com)download book core servlets
u can find lots of nice books supported by sun on sunwebsite ...
Now u r equipped ....
start doing everything (R &D) on server ..
Join This JSP forum and ask any thing u didnt got ..or learn or get confused..
I thing once u go through this ..it will do all what u want
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public boolean connect() throws ClassNotFoundException,SQLException {
    Class.forName(dbDriver);
    dbCon = DriverManager.getConnection(dbURL);
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}When does it return false? What's the benefit of returning true?
public ResultSet execSQL(String sql) throws SQLException {}Passing Statements or ResultSets around as parameters or return types is bad design.
The code also doesn't close the connection, the statement, nor the resultset in case of exceptions, which causes memory and resource leaks.
And this is also funny:return (r == null) ? null : r;they explained it as:
What this statement does is that, if the value of r is null, it returns a null value and if it is a non null value, it returns the value of r. Though this statement seems redundant, it is useful for preventing any errors that might occur due to improper value being set in r.
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