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Is this book a reliable source for beginning Java EE? [closed]

Core Servlets and Javaserver Pages: Core Technologies, Vol. 1 (2nd Edition) Can I rely on this book to learn Servlets and JSP,or is there a better book out there I should be reading instead?
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Handling error message for a Spring MVC login form

This can apply to many error handling scenarios, but I'm curious about how to do it in a login scenario. Given this Spring controller method: @RequestMapping(value = "/account/login", method = ...
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Controller JSP - no view

Most people say do not use JSPs. But what if I have a JSP that does not show anything, it only acts as a controller? Why would I do that? Because we do not need to redeploy complete webapp to make a ...
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Developing website that will have mobile app in future should be in PHP or JSP? [closed]

I am developing a web solution that I ultimately want to be available on each mobile platform as mobile app (not a mobile website at all). I am in great confusion to choose between PHP or JSP to ...
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How can I debug a JSP?

I'm trying to edit a JSP for a project and I'm getting a NullPointerException somewhere in the JSP when it's requested from my server. My web server (JBoss) is reporting the exception, but it's ...
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How should I go about “overhauling” a large legacy application? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: I’ve inherited 200K lines of spaghetti code — what now? For my next project, I've been tasked with "overhauling" a large legacy web application with many parts. It is a ...
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Why JSP over Servlets for view?

Although servlets does the task of sending the HTML code to the client programmers weight JSP over servlets for that. Even a JSP code is compiled into servlet before giving the response to the browser ...
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Building a website, want to use java

I'd like to make a simple-ish website that is essentially a small game. Key strokes are to be processed and sent to a server (already acquired and should support SQL and JSP, I believe) which then ...
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myeclipse: can I customize templates like sysout in jsp

Myeclipse's java code templates like sysout make coding easier, and they can also be customized. But seems it's jsp editor has no such capability. Is it possible to create and customize some ...
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Can the overuse of custom taglibs disrupt the outsourcing of html designers?

Yesterday me and a friend were talking about the overuse of custom taglibs! We create taglibs for everything! We create taglibs in order to wrap jQuery UI elements (tabs, button, etc), and other ...
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When are scripts inside HTML not considered a bad practice?

I am new to web development. While studying the Play framework and JSP, I noticed that they both give an option to place script (in jsp scriptlet) inside HTML, but in both books I am reading they both ...
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JSP, EL, JSTL: learning from a web designer perpective

I have two books geared toward learning JSP. From what I've read, one motivating feature/benefit is that it is easier for web designers (they apparently don't, as a rule, know Java) to work with ...
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How can I efficiently handle input data without a framework?

I am working on a very small project and my design would be using technologies such as JSP, servlets, and POJOs. I'm considering a workflow where a JSP page will receive input data, then submit it to ...
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Multiple possible jsp views for a request

I'm looking to offer the user some way of changing how a single page looks based on some pre-defined jsps. i.e. Two or more jsp's contain similar information, and would be backed by a single ...
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Is JSP a good alternative to PHP [closed]

I'm wondering is JSP a safe alternative to PHP? Some things I'm concerned about are cpu usage, memory usage, and security.
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How difficult would it be to migrate a Struts/JSP application to Groovy?

I have taken over development of a JSP/Struts application. Right now it's a bit of a mess, and I'm finding the JSP pages with Struts tags to be insanely verbose. Has anyone migrated a Struts ...
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Why does EL have such low visibility?

Use of EL in JSP's is the proper way to code logic according to the Sun tutorials and samples, which also recommend against the use of Java scriptlets. Yet searching job listings for EL | "expression ...
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Where can I host my JSP+Java Web application?

My web application is currently written in JSP/Java, using an Oracle DB. I develop on Windows, and I use JDeveloper (Oracle's eclipse clone) and I use JDev's integrated WebLogic Server. I want to go ...
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Work @ Java shop. Tasked to redo intranet. I only know PHP - CTO says use that; Ops Says no - we have JSP, use that - Thoughts? [closed]

So I work as a project manager and was given the opportunity to redo the intranet and Internet site... I'd love to , great addition to my resume. However.... I am not familiar with java nor JSP... I ...