Sams Teach Yourself Javaserver Pages in 24 Hours

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Hi.
I'm a new user of Weblogic and I'm presently learning JSP. Like most people do
I went out and bought a beginner's book on JSP.
The book I bought is Sams Teach Yourself Javaserver Pages in 24 Hours by Jose
Annunziato (DSc) and Stephanie Fesler Kaminaris.
Up to now I've spent the 5 first hours trying to run my first JSP on Weblogic
(seems like it's going to take more than 24 hours to complete the book!). The
problem was simply a wrong path for the compileCommand variable in the weblogic.properties
file.
the authors suggest the following:
compileCommand=c:/jdk1.2.2/javac.exe
when it should be:
compileCommand=c:/jdk1.2.2/bin/javac.exe
The point I want to make is that this type of error is far too frequent in computer
programming books, considering the prohibitive price they're sold at, and it shows
a lack of respect on the part of the authors and/or publishers for the people
who buy them. I encourage everyone to do like me and denounce these people on
newsgroups all over the Internet. When their sales go down they will surely take
action.
On the positive side, I want to congratulate BEA for their newsgroups. This is
how I finally got on the track to solving my problem. Otherwise, I probably would
have spent at least 24 hours hacking around just to get that first JSP to work
in Weblogic.
Thanks.

Answer 1

Hi.
I'm a new user of Weblogic and I'm presently learning JSP. Like most people do
I went out and bought a beginner's book on JSP.
The book I bought is Sams Teach Yourself Javaserver Pages in 24 Hours by Jose
Annunziato (DSc) and Stephanie Fesler Kaminaris.
Up to now I've spent the 5 first hours trying to run my first JSP on Weblogic
(seems like it's going to take more than 24 hours to complete the book!). The
problem was simply a wrong path for the compileCommand variable in the weblogic.properties
file.
the authors suggest the following:
compileCommand=c:/jdk1.2.2/javac.exe
when it should be:
compileCommand=c:/jdk1.2.2/bin/javac.exe
The point I want to make is that this type of error is far too frequent in computer
programming books, considering the prohibitive price they're sold at, and it shows
a lack of respect on the part of the authors and/or publishers for the people
who buy them. I encourage everyone to do like me and denounce these people on
newsgroups all over the Internet. When their sales go down they will surely take
action.
On the positive side, I want to congratulate BEA for their newsgroups. This is
how I finally got on the track to solving my problem. Otherwise, I probably would
have spent at least 24 hours hacking around just to get that first JSP to work
in Weblogic.
Thanks.