Beginning Jakarta EE Web Development: Using JSP, JSF, MySQL, and Apache Tomcat For Building Java Web Applications

Es un buen libro. Llegó rápido. Un poco caro el envío hasta mi país, pero valió el esfuerzo. Gracias

outdated by 2022badly structuredcontains many errors and bad programming and deprecated techniques at the date of publishingNOT RECOMENDED

To be fair this book does supply great information when it comes to explaining JSP, JSF, and the smaller exercises are fine. Yet the larger project in building the storefront is more complex than it needs to be. This is supposed to be a beginner's book, yet the authors do a poor job of truly dissecting the code into the proper MVC, and explaining how each part works. In order to truly understand this, I had to discard everything I had read in this book, and start from scratch. Going to Youtube and Overstack for explanation of the proper construction of MVC, and to truly understand the nuts and bolts of what I was building. I built my own storefront with simpler, easier to understand code structure, and I even threw in some Javascript for better page functionality.The authors also promotes bad coding inadvertently, by displaying an example of bad code (i.e. placing the database connection in the jsp page (the java equivalent of an html page) states that it is incorrect, but do not demonstrate how to code this correctly. Overall the book is poorly structured, and I feel the authors meant well but have been programming for so long, they cannot think like a beginner. The result is a book that mostly likely will go over a new programmer's head, if they are not familiar with the fundamentals of MVC.

I get the idea that the author is a brilliant fellow, I don't like the way the book was structured. The book shouldn't have an explanation of basic Java syntax just a couple dozen pages before a complex, several page example. I didn't end up feeling like I would be able to learn well from the book.

Have to use this book while pursuing my Software Development degree and let me tell you, it's a mess. I never write reviews but I feel compelled to after just spending hours trying to get the code they provide in the text to work. While the text is titled "Jakarta EE", literally EVERY example of code throughout the book uses the old terminology of "javax" instead of "jakarta".The authors couldn't be bothered to update the book to newer standards so everything is written in previous versions of software and modules, but to continue to feel like they are "up to date" and encourage schools to use their book, they did change the title to Jakarta. I feel this is a really crummy business tactic by itself, and that isn't even touching the point others have already brought up with the formatting. None of the formatting makes sense, and the code examples don't help since they include tons of extra code the authors expect you to ignore until a later block.PS: Why classes are still teaching JSP and JSF in 2022 is beyond me, but that's more of a comment on academia than the quality of this text.