JSP Examples and Best Practices

While other books provide instruction on basic JSP and servlet development, JSP Examples and Best Practices gives developers several best practices and design principles to enable them to build scalable and extensible enterprise Java applications. Through the application of enterprise design patterns, JavaServer Pages technology can be used to build complex enterprise applications in a highly reusable manner. Early JSP applications followed the "model 1" pattern for JSP development, consisting of several pages of HTML and Java code intermixed. Several common functions were hard-coded in several places throughout the pages. As of late, developers have begun applying the "model 2" pattern for JSP development, following more of a standard Model-View-Controller (MVC) approach. Andrew Patzer takes this to a new level by applying enterprise design patterns to create a powerful request-handling framework built upon the MVC model. A framework would not be very useful if it were left by itself. "JSP Examples and Best Practices augments the framework with unit testing, load testing, and automated build procedures using open source tools from the Apache group.