JSP 2.0: The Complete Reference, Second Edition

Phil Hanna is a Sun Certified Programmer for Java 2 Platform and a principal systems developer working on e-commerce solutions in the Research and Development Division of SAS Institute. Formerly a consultant at Chase Manhattan Bank, he worked for seven years at IBM developing network-based software. He has over twenty years experience as a programmer, analyst, project leader and systems architect. A native of Corvallis, Oregon, he now lives and works in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Part I: The Web Programming Environment 1: Evolution of the Web Application 2: Overview of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) 3: Introduction to Servlets 4: JSP Overview Part II: Elements of JSP 5: JSP Syntax and Semantics 6: Expressions, Scriptlets, and Declarations 7: Request Dispatching 8: Session and Thread Management 9: Application Event Listeners 10: Filters Part III: JSP Tag Extensions 11: Introduction to Custom Tags 12: Expression Language 13: The JSP Standard Tag Library (JSTL) 14: Simple Tag Extensions, Tag Files, and JSP Fragments Part IV: JSP Applications 15: Database Access with JDBC 16: JSP and XML 17: JSP Testing and Debugging 18: Deploying Web Applications 19: Case Study: A Product Support Center A : Servlet 2.4 and JSP 2.0 API