Java Servlet Programming - Softcover

Hunter, Jason; Crawford, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 156592391X ISBN 13: 9781565923911

Publisher: O′Reilly, 1998

Synopsis

A guide for programmers familiar with Java showcases the versatility of the CGI script replacements, including session tracking, developing dynamic Web content, and applet-servlet communication

About this title

About the Author

Jason Hunter is a Java consultant, speaker, instructor, and author. Jason graduated summa cum laude from Willamette University (Salem, Oregon) in 1995 with a degree in computer science. After graduation, he worked at Silicon Graphics in Mountain View, California, for several years, where he was responsible for developing (and breaking) all sorts of Web technologies. He currently works as the Chief Technology Officer of a Silicon Valley start-up, K&A Software, where he specializes in Java training and consulting, with an emphasis on servlets. Jason also writes columns for JavaWorld. Jason began programming in Java in the summer of 1995 and has concentrated on servlets and related server-extension technologies since December 1996. If by some miracle you don't find him at work, he's probably out hiking in the mountains. William "Will" Crawford got involved with Web development back in 1995. He has worked at the Children's Hospital Informatics Program in Boston, where he helped develop the first Web-based electronic medical record system and was involved in some of the first uses of Java at the enterprise level. He has consulted on intranet development projects for, among others, Children's Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital, the Boston Anesthesia Education Foundation, and Harvard Medical Center. Will currently heads the product development team at Invantage, Inc., a Cambridge, Massachusetts, startup developing Java-based intranet tools for the pharmaceutical industry. In his spare time, he is an avid amateur photographer, writer, and pursuer of a bachelor's degree in economics at Yale University.

From the Back Cover

A few years ago, the hype surrounding applets put Java on the map as a programmimg language for the Web. Today, Java servlets stand poised to take Java to the next level as a web development language.

Java Servlet Programming covers the Java Servlet API, a standard extension to Java that provides a generic mechanism for extending the functionality of any kind of server. As the book explains, however, servlets are most commonly used to extend web servers, perform tasks traditionally handled by CGI programs. Web servers that can support servlets include Apache, Netscape's FastTrack and Enterprise Servers, Microsoft's IIS, O'Reilly's WebSite, and JavaSoft's Java Web Server.

Servlets offer a fast, powerful, portable replacement for CGI scripts. Servlets execute within the web server's process space and they persist between invocations, which gives them tremendous performance benefits over CGI programs. Servlets have full access to the various Java APIs and to third-party component classes, making them ideal for use in communicating with applets, databases, and RMI servers. Best of all, servlets are portable among operating systems and among servers - with servlets you can 'write once, serve everywhere.'

Java Servlet Programming covers everything you need to know to write effective servlets and includes numerous examples that you can use as the basis for your own servlets. The book explains the servlet lifestyle, showing how you can use servlets to maintain state information effortlessly. It also descrives how to serve dynamic web content, including both HTML pages and multimedia data. Finally, it explores more advanced topics like integrated session tracking, efficient database connectivity using JDBC, applet-servlet communication, interservlet communication, and internationalization.

Edition details

• Publisher: O′Reilly
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 156592391X
• ISBN 13: 9781565923911
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 510