Murach's Java Servlets and JSP (1st Edition)
Note: We've now published a 2nd
Edition of this book that covers the current releases
of Java and Tomcat. So unless you're using Java 1.4
and Tomcat 4.0 and aren't able to upgrade, we recommend
you get the 2nd Edition instead.
Once your students have core Java skills like those
presented in our basic Java book, you can use our servlets
and JSP book to teach them how to develop Java web applications.
To date, more than 100 schools have adopted this book,
and what instructors like the most is the book's logical,
straightforward approach and its comprehensive treatment
of Tomcat, MySQL, JSP, and servlets.
As one instructor put it, "Thanks to you, we no longer have to cobble together HTML, Tomcat, and JSP material." Another said: "I find your book appeals to both our strong and our weak programmers." And a third said: "This book shows that Java really isn't as difficult as those junky Sun tutorials lead one to believe. These authors make it look easy."
One caveat: This book is based on Java 1.4. As a result, there are some minor changes you may have to make to the code in the book examples for later versions of Java. To review these, please go to Using newer versions of Tomcat and Java in our Books section.
Training aids in the book itself: Instructional objectives
and practice exercises by chapter; Source code and data
for all of the applications in the book (on the bound-in
CD)
Instructor's CD
The Instructor's CD for this book includes these materials:
- PowerPoint slides for classroom presentations
- Solutions for the exercises in the book
- Student projects and model solutions
- Review questions
- Tests (with multiple-choice and short-answer questions) and test answers; these are based on the instructional objectives at the end of each chapter of the book
To preview these materials, you can download
a sample of them. Then, if you like what you see,
you can request the complete Instructor's CD. Or, for more information, you can
email us at murachbooks@murach.com
or call us at 1-800-221-5528.
About the download of sample materials
When you download the sample materials, they're copied to your system in a single file named JSPSample.zip. We recommend unzipping the contents into a folder named C:\Murach.
Before you start evaluating the materials, please review
the document named Guide Summary in the Sample IG folder. It introduces the other
components in this sample, and it summarizes what isn't
included in the sample but is included in the full Instructor's
CD (like the test answers).
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