JSP resources

JSP Resources

Reference

JSP Error Solving
JSP/JDBC Glossary and Terminology
Sun's JSP Syntax Reference Card
JSP Examples: List on turing or here - from lectures and tutorials

Online Articles

Baldwin R. (2000), JavaServer Pages: Introduction to JSP; Comments, Declarations and Expressions; Scriptlets; The Include Directive; The Page Directive and The <jsp:forward> Tag from developer.com. A short, easy intro; unfortunately many links to examples don't work.
Baldwin R. (2000), JavaServer Pages and JavaBean Components: Part I, Part II and Part III, from developer.com. A short, quite easy intro to JavaBeans; unfortunately some links don't work.
Fields D. and Kolb M. (2001) Writing your First JSP, from webreview.com. (No longer available online)
EASY Holzner S. (2003), Reading Data from Web Pages: covering Buttons and Text fields on Forms. From developer.com.
IBM's Developing Dynamic Web Pages - intro to JSP and Beans
EASY Kaminaris S. and Annunziato J. (2001), JSP: Creating a Configurable Home Page from developer.com.
EASY Kaminaris S. and Annunziato J. (2001), JSP: Creating Dynamic Titles from developer.com.
EASY Kaminaris S. and Annunziato J. (2001), JSP: Creating Dynamic Tables from developer.com.
EASY Kaminaris S. and Annunziato J. (2001), JSP: Creating Dynamic Forms from developer.com.
Marx D. (2001), JSP Best Practices, from javaworld.com. A bit complex and advanced in places
Mohseni P.(1999), Start Serving Java Server Pages: Introduction; Sessions and Beans; from developer.com. A very brief overview. Getting rather old.
Sun's JavaServer Pages Overview - what it is
Sun's JavaServer Pages Technology - intro to technology
Sun's The Life Cycle of a JSP Page
Sun's Web Application Life Cycle
Sun's The J2EE 1.4 Tutorial: a comprehensive J2EE tutorial including chapters on JSP - not for beginners
Sun's The Example JSP Pages: a comprehensive example - not for beginners
Sun's JavaServer Pages Technology: Documentation
EASY Webber M. (2000), Building Java Server Pages from webdevelopersjournal.com. A short, quite-easy, reference-type article

JSP support sites

www.developer.com - a useful generic site - search it for JSP
www.javaworld.com - a useful generic site
JSP Insider - mainly a one person site but could be helpful
Sun's JSP forum

Tomcat resources

Apache's tomcat site
Some hints on installing and running Tomcat
Falkner J. and Jones K. (2003), Servlets and Java Server Pages: the J2EE Web Tier, Addison Wesley. Chapter 1 includes useable guidance on installing and configuring Java (J2SE 1.4) and Tomcat 5 on Windows (and other) systems (for use stand-alone, without a web server). Chapter 2 deals with servlets but also client/server and HTTP. Chapter 3 deals with JSP but building on servlets.

Books

Falkner J. and Jones K. (2003), Servlets and Java Server Pages: the J2EE Web Tier, Addison Wesley. JSP coverage builds on servlets. Entire text available online.
Hall M. and Brown L. (2004), Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages - Volume 1: Core Technologies, 2^nd ed., Sun Microsystems Press/Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-009229-0. Very comprehensive reference text but based on servlets. The site will contain sample chapters.

The full text of the 1^st edition is available online
Wigglesworth J. and McMillan P. (2004), Java Programming: Advanced Topics, 3rd ed, Thomson
Chapter 13 covers JSP but based on servlets

Other Resources

The Serverside support site, includes Application Server Matrix details and a number of free online books for download