JavaServer Pages, Second Edition



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JavaServer Pages™, Second Edition
By Larne Pekowsky

Publisher	: Addison Wesley
Pub Date	: August 15, 2003
ISBN	: 0-321-15079-1
Pages	: 368

Preface

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1. Introduction

Section 1.1. A Brief History of the Web

Section 1.2. Basic Dynamic Page Generation

Section 1.3. Solving CGI Problems

Section 1.4. Welcome to Java News Today

Section 1.5. Trying the Examples

Chapter 2. Simple JSPs

Section 2.1. Removing Text from a JSP

Section 2.2. JSP Errors

Section 2.3. Including Text in a JSP

Section 2.4. The Phases of a JSP

Section 2.5. Creating Custom Error Pages

Section 2.6. Java News Today

Section 2.7. Summary and Conclusions

Section 2.8. Tags Learned in This Chapter

Chapter 3. Using Beans

Section 3.1. Splitting Big Tasks into Manageable Pieces

Section 3.2. Defining Beans

Section 3.3. JavaBean Tags

Section 3.4. Making Data Available Throughout an Application

Section 3.5. Special Actions When Beans Are Created

Section 3.6. Making Beans Last Forever

Section 3.7. Java News Today and Beans

Section 3.8. Future Directions

Section 3.9. Summary and Conclusions

Section 3.10. Tags Learned in This Chapter

Chapter 4. The Standard Tag Library

Section 4.1. Tag Libraries

Section 4.2. Tags with Bodies

Section 4.3. Dynamic Attributes in Tags

Section 4.4. Displaying Expressions

Section 4.5. Formatting Output

Section 4.6. Compound Data in the Expression Language

Section 4.7. Browser Detection

Section 4.8. Combining Tags

Section 4.9. Selecting among Multiple Choices

Section 4.10. Summary and Conclusions

Section 4.11. Tags Learned in this Chapter

Chapter 5. Java News Today: Part I

Section 5.1. The Beans

Section 5.2. The Header

Section 5.3. The Left-Hand Navigation

Section 5.4. The Login Page

Section 5.5. The Quiz Result Page

Section 5.6. The Section Page

Section 5.7. The Article Page

Section 5.8. The Remaining Pages

Section 5.9. Summary and Conclusions

Section 5.10. Tags Learned in this Chapter

Chapter 6. Databases

Section 6.1. A Quick Introduction to Databases

Section 6.2. A Language for Databases

Section 6.3. Using SQL Directly from JSPs

Section 6.4. Inserting Data from JSPs

Section 6.5. SQL and Beans

Section 6.6. Summary and Conclusions

Section 6.7. Tags Learned in This Chapter

Chapter 7. Java News Today: Part 2

Section 7.1. Designing the Tables

Section 7.2. Adding Articles

Section 7.3. User Pages

Section 7.4. Other User Preferences

Section 7.5. Advertising

Section 7.6. Summary and Conclusions

Chapter 8. Working with XML

Section 8.1. A Brief Introduction to XML

Section 8.2. Using XML in JSPs

Section 8.3. Selecting Data from an XML Document

Section 8.4. Processing XML in JSPs

Section 8.5. Formatting XML

Section 8.6. Java News Today and XML

Section 8.7. Summary and Conclusions

Section 8.8. Tags Learned in this Chapter

Chapter 9. A Small Cup of Java

Section 9.1. Expressions

Section 9.2. Types

Section 9.3. Storing Values

Section 9.4. Method Calls

Section 9.5. Conditionally Evaluating Code

Section 9.6. Evaluating the Same Code Multiple Times

Section 9.7. Grouping Code

Section 9.8. Handling Errors

Section 9.9. Modeling a Problem with Objects

Section 9.10. Objects in Java

Section 9.11. Building Objects from Classes

Section 9.12. Sometimes Nothing Is Something

Section 9.13. Building Classes from Other Classes

Section 9.14. Interfaces

Section 9.15. Creating Groups of Classes and Interfaces

Section 9.16. Using Java in JSPs

Section 9.17. Database Access from Java

Section 9.18. Summary and Conclusions

Chapter 10. Writing Beans

Section 10.1. How Beans Are Implemented

Section 10.2. Automatic Type Conversion

Section 10.3. How Beans Work

Section 10.4. Bean Serialization

Section 10.5. Events

Section 10.6. Special Events

Section 10.7. Bean Errors

Section 10.8. Summary and Conclusions

Chapter 11. Servlets

Section 11.1. The Servlet Life Cycle

Section 11.2. The Servlet Class Hierarchy

Section 11.3. Servlet Events

Section 11.4. Forwarding and Including Requests

Section 11.5. Using Scopes from Servlets

Section 11.6. Using Beans from Servlets

Section 11.7. The JSP Classes

Section 11.8. Intercepting Requests

Section 11.9. Summary and Conclusions

Chapter 12. The Controller

Section 12.1. Some Common Controller Tasks

Section 12.2. Support for Controllers: Struts

Section 12.3. Summary and Conclusions

Chapter 13. Creating New Tag Libraries

Section 13.1. The Tag Life Cycle

Section 13.2. Tags without Bodies

Section 13.3. Tags with Bodies

Section 13.4. Using the Expression Language

Section 13.5. JSPs as Custom Tags

Section 13.6. Summary and Conclusions

Chapter 14. Advanced Topics

Section 14.1. Declaring Variables and Methods

Section 14.2. Extending Different Classes

Section 14.3. Returning Other Kinds of Data

Section 14.4. Threads

Section 14.5. Advanced Error Handling

Section 14.6. Summary and Conclusions

Appendix A. Summary of Tags

Section A.1. Built-in Tags

Section A.2. Core Tags

Section A.3. Format, Parsing, and Internationalization Tags

Section A.4. SQL Tags

Section A.5. XML Tags

Appendix B. Configuring a Web Application

Section B.1. Layout of the Directories

Section B.2. The Web.xml File

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