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Murach’s Java Servlets and JSP (3rd Edition)
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Once your students have Java skills like those presented in our core Java book, you can use our servlets and JSP book to teach them how to develop Java web applications. Dozens of schools have adopted this book, and what instructors like 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."
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This book takes you through a well-structured learning journey of JSP, Servlets, and related technologies such as Netbeans, Tomcat, and MySQL for developing complete web apps. The book has provided me with the skill and confidence to start building my own web-app. The book finishes with a completed e-commerce example that builds on the earlier work, and gives the reader a basis for their own future development.”
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Book description
Section 1: Get started right
In this section, your students will learn:
- the concepts and terms that they need for Java web programming with servlets and JSPs
- how to use the MVC pattern to get the most from servlets and JSPs
- how to use the NetBeans IDE for developing servlet/JSP applications more efficiently
- how to use the Tomcat web server that lets you use servlets and JSPs for web applications
By the time your students finish with this section, they will be able to set up their own development environments for coding and running servlets and JSPs.
Section 2: The essential servlet and JSP skills
This section starts with a crash course in HTML, which is essential to the use of JSPs. Then, your students will learn the skills for creating servlets and JSPs that they’ll use in almost every application. These chapters move from the simple to the complex as they present the use of servlets, JSPs, sessions, cookies, JavaBeans, Expression Language (EL), the JSP Standard Tag Library (JSTL), and custom JSP tags.
Section 3: The essential database skills
Here, your students will learn how to use servlets and JSPs to work with a database using either JDBC or the newer JPA. Since MySQL is a popular open-source database that works well with Java and is commonly used for web applications, this section presents the details for working with MySQL. However, these principles can be applied to the use of any database management system, including Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server.
Section 4: Advanced servlet and JSP skills
In this section, your students will learn the advanced servlet and JSP skills that are needed for certain types of web applications. This includes the use of JavaMail, SSL, authentication, encryption, advanced HTTP skills, listeners, and filters. Then, the last chapter is an introduction to creating web applications with JavaServer Faces (JSF), if you want to cover this alternative to using JSPs. Since the chapters in this section have been designed to work independently, you can assign as many as you want, in any order you want.
Section 5: The Music Store website
This section presents an e-commerce website that puts the skills presented in the first four sections into context. This downloadable application illustrates best practices and provides code that your students can use in their own applications.
Book features
Like all our books, this one has features that you won’t find in competing books. Here, though, are a few of the features that are unique to this book:
- Chapter 2 shows how to use the MVC pattern (or Model 2 architecture) to get the most from JSPs and servlets. From that point on, your students will use servlets when they’re appropriate and JSPs when they’re appropriate. As a result, they won’t waste time learning how to use servlets for tasks that should be handled by JSPs, or vice versa.
- Chapter 3 shows how to use the NetBeans IDE with a Tomcat server to develop web applications on your own computer. By using this IDE, your students will learn faster and better than they would without an IDE.
- Chapter 4 provides a crash course in HTML5 and CSS3, which this is essential background for the use of JSPs. This means your students won’t need a second book to learn HTML and CSS.
- Like all of our books, this one includes dozens of examples that range from the simple to the complex. That way, your students can quickly see how a feature works from the simple examples, but they’ll also see how the feature is used in more complex, real-world examples, including the complete e-commerce application that’s presented in section 5.
What’s new in this edition
- An improved didactic approach that starts by presenting the MVC pattern in chapter 2. That way, your students will use the MVC pattern for all exercises and projects, they won’t learn skills that they will have to unlearn or relearn later on, and they won’t learn programming practices that they won’t or shouldn’t use on the job.
- New chapters on how to use JPA (Java Persistence API) for database programming, other security skills that weren’t covered in the second edition, and JavaServer Faces (JSF).
- An improved Music Store website in two versions: one that uses JDBC and one that uses JPA.
- Technical enhancements throughout the book, thanks to co-author Michael Urban, who has a wealth of Java web programming experience.
What courses this book can be used for
This book assumes that your students have basic Java skills, the kind they should get from any core Java book or course, like chapters 1-14 of our own Murach’s Java Programming.
With a set of basic Java skills as the prerequisite, this book can be used for a first web programming course. Or it can be combined with our core Java book for a two- or three-term sequence. And if you want to teach SQL as part of that sequence, you can add Murach’s MySQL to the mix. Unlike the books of other publishers, all of these books are designed to work together.
What software your students need
To create and use the web applications in this book, your students need this software:
- Java SE
- NetBeans
- Tomcat
- MySQL
- MySQL Workbench
This software is available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux systems.
Although all of this software is free, it can be difficult to install and get started with it. So this book provides all the support your students will need for doing that:
- Appendix A shows how to install the software on Windows systems.
- Appendix B shows how to install the software on Mac OS X systems
- Chapter 3 shows how to use NetBeans and Tomcat
What if you want to use another IDE for the course
Because this book shows how to use the NetBeans IDE to develop servlets and JSPs, that’s the best IDE for a course that’s based on this book.
However, if you prefer to use another IDE such as Eclipse with this book, you can do that. You just need to:
- import the source code for this book into that IDE so your students can compile and run the book applications and complete the exercises
- teach your students how to use that IDE if they haven’t used it in an earlier course
What people say about this book
"I love the layout, style, organization, thoroughness, ease of understanding, and overall excellence of the Murach books. They explain everything very clearly, step by step, in a mentor/instructor conversational style, and in a problem-solving context. The problem-solving context is especially valuable, as it really drills the topic into one’s brain. It’s one thing to read about an API and see how it works; it’s another thing to see it being used to solve a common business process or problem....In short, I cannot recommend Murach’s Java Servlets and JSP enough. This book is a pleasure to read, and I’ve learned a ton, and solidified my knowledge and skills regarding Java web development. Get it. You’ll like it. It’s well worth the price tag."
- Jeff Salter, TheServerSide.com
"This book is very practical, and it will make Servlets and JSP fun to learn. It is so enjoyable that you’ll finish reading it in no time. I wish I had such a book when I started developing web applications. Highly recommended."
- Christophe Verre, JavaRanch.com
"I’ve read a lot of computer technology books, and rarely have I felt so solidly prepared as this one to transfer what I’ve learned into real projects."
- Posted at an online bookseller
"A very strong point your book has is putting crystal-clear comments on the left page, with short but realistic examples and a summary on the right. The idea is simple, but very efficient: it allowed me to progress at light speed and still proves to be very convenient when I need to refresh my memory within seconds. It makes me a more productive programmer. Very good index, too!"
- Xavier Mercier, Software Designer, Galway, Ireland
"I have to admit I was a bit intimidated by JSP and servlets. But Murach’s treatment of the topic is excellent. It goes step-by-step, starting with simple examples, but the pace doesn’t feel overly slow. You always feel like you’re making good progress.... Overall a great book."
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"I have been a developer for over 10 years in many different languages and usually for each language or topic I buy lots of books, most of which, sad to say, are fairly boring, overly complex, teach useless stuff, or are way too cluttered and disorganized to get the points across. Usually I find a couple of books that really stand out and become tattered and ragged with use. This is such a book."
- Posted at an online bookseller
"Every so often you find a technical book that is so superbly written you actually enjoy reading it, because you know you’re going to be able to understand and learn more each time you pick it up. From the start of this book, through to the end, I found myself feeling so glad I found this book and so grateful to the authors, because the care and skill with which it was written makes it very easy to read and understand."
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"There is a line written on this book, ‘No other book teaches you so much, so fast, so thoroughly,’ and I must tell you that this is 100% correct. Congrats !! on coming up with this amazing work of yours.... Looking forward to more books on other languages as well."
- Ravi Nathani, Software Engineer Wireless and Multimedia Products
“This book takes you through a well-structured learning journey of JSP, Servlets and related technologies such as Netbeans, Tomcat and MySQL for developing complete web apps. The book has provided me with the skill and confidence to start building my own web-app. The book finishes with a completed e-commerce example that builds on the earlier work, and gives the reader a basis for their own future development.”
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Section 1 Get started right
Chapter 1 An introduction to web applications
A typical web application
The components of a web application
How static web pages work
How dynamic web pages work
Three approaches for Java web applications
Servlet/JSP
JSF
Spring Framework
An introduction to servlet/JSP web development
The software components
The architecture
The standard directories and files
Software for developing Java web applications
IDEs for developing Java web applications
Web servers for Java web applications
Database servers for Java web applications
Tools for deploying Java web applications
Chapter 2 How to structure a web application with the MVC pattern
Two patterns for servlet/JSP applications
The Model 1 pattern
The Model 2 (MVC) pattern
A servlet/JSP application that uses the MVC pattern
The user interface
The HTML for the first page
The CSS for both web pages
The servlet for the back-end processing
The web.xml file
The User class
The JSP for the second page
Chapter 3 How to use NetBeans and Tomcat
How to get started with NetBeans
How to start NetBeans
How to create a new web application
How to use the Projects window
How to open and close projects
How to build, deploy, and run a web application
How to work with HTML and JSP files
How to add an HTML or JSP file
How to edit an HTML or JSP file
How to work with Java files
How to add a Java class
How to add a servlet
How to edit a Java file
How to work with XML files
How to edit the web.xml file
How to edit other XML files
Other skills for working with web applications
How to add existing files to a project
How to deploy a web application to a remote server
How to work with a web application server
How to add a class library or a JAR file to a project
How to register a database connection
Section 2 Essential servlet and JSP skills
Chapter 4 A crash course in HTML5 and CSS3
How to work with HTML
The starting HTML for a web page
How to code HTML elements
How to use the HTML5 semantic elements
How to use the div and span elements with HTML5
How to ensure cross-browser compatibility
How to code links
How to include images
How to code tables
How to work with CSS
How to provide CSS styles for an HTML page
How to code the basic CSS selectors
How to code CSS rule sets and comments
How to use CSS to format a table
How to code HTML forms
How to code a form
How to code text boxes
How to code buttons
How to code check boxes and radio buttons
How to code combo boxes and list boxes
Chapter 5 How to develop servlets
How to create and map a servlet
How to create a servlet
How to map a servlet with the web.xml file
How to map a servlet with an annotation
How to request a servlet
How to use the HTTP GET method
How to use the HTTP POST method
When to use the HTTP GET and POST methods
Skills for working with servlets
How to get the values of the parameters
How to get the real path for a file
How to get and set request attributes
How to forward requests
How to redirect responses
How to validate data
How to validate data on the client
How to validate data on the server
How to work with the web.xml file
A complete web.xml file
How to work with initialization parameters
How to implement custom error handling
More skills for working with servlets
How the methods of a servlet work
Why you shouldn’t use instance variables in servlets
How to work with servlet errors
How to solve common servlet problems
How to print debugging data to the console
How to print debugging data to a log file
Chapter 6 How to develop JavaServer Pages
A crash course in EL and JSTL
How to code a JavaBean
How to use EL to get attributes and JavaBean properties
How to enable the core JSTL library
How to use the JSTL if tag
How to use JSP tags
How to code directives, scriptlets, and expressions
How to code comments in a JSP
How to use standard JSP tags with JavaBeans
An introduction to standard JSP tags
How to code the useBean tag
How to code the getProperty and setProperty tags
How to include a file in a JSP
A JSP that includes a header and footer file
Three techniques for including files in a JSP
How to fix common JSP errors
Chapter 7 How to work with sessions and cookies
An introduction to session tracking
Why session tracking is difficult with HTTP
How session tracking works in Java
An application that needs session tracking
How to work with sessions
How to set and get session attributes
More methods of the session object
How to provide thread-safe access to the session object
How to work with cookies
An introduction to cookies
How to create and use cookies
How to view and delete cookies
Four methods for working with cookies
A utility class for working with cookies
How to work with URL rewriting and hidden fields
How to use URL rewriting to pass parameters
How to use hidden fields to pass parameters
The Download application
The user interface
The file structure
The web.xml file
The code for the JSPs
The code for the servlet
Chapter 8 How to use EL
An introduction to JSP Expression Language
Advantages of EL
Disadvantages of EL
Essential skills for working with EL
How to use the dot operator to work with JavaBeans and maps
How to use EL to specify scope
How to use the [ ] operator to work with arrays and lists
How to use the dot operator to access nested properties
Other skills for working with EL
How to use the [ ] operator to access attributes
How to work with the other implicit EL objects
How to work with other EL operators
How to disable EL
How to disable scripting
Chapter 9 How to use JSTL
An introduction to JSTL
The JSTL libraries
How to make the JSTL JAR files available to your application
How to code the taglib directive
How to code a JSTL tag
How to view the documentation for a library
How to work with the JSTL core library
How to use the out tag
How to use the forEach tag
How to use the forTokens tag
Four more attributes for looping
How to use the if tag
How to use the choose tag
How to use the url tag
Other tags in the JSTL core library
The Cart application
The user interface
The code for the business classes
The code for the servlets and JSPs
Chapter 10 How to use custom JSP tags
How to code a custom tag that doesn’t have a body
The tag
The tag element
The tag class
How to code a custom tag that has a body
The tag
The tag element
The tag class
How to code a custom tag that has attributes
The tag
The tag element
The tag class
How to code a custom tag that reiterates its body
The tag
The tag element
The tag class
How to work with scripting variables
An introduction to scripting variables
The TEI class for four scripting variables
Classes, methods, and fields for working with custom tags
Methods and fields of the TagSupport class
Methods and fields of the PageContext class
Methods and fields of the BodyTagSupport class
Methods and fields of the BodyContent class
Section 3 Essential database skills
Chapter 11 How to use a MySQL database
An introduction to MySQL
What MySQL provides
Two ways to interact with MySQL
How to use MySQL Workbench
The Home tab of MySQL Workbench
How to open a database connection
How to start and stop the MySQL server
How to enter and execute a SQL statement
How to enter and execute a SQL script
The SQL statements for creating a database
How to create, select, and drop a database
How to create and drop a table
How to insert multiple rows into a table
The SQL statements for data manipulation
How to select data from a single table
How to select data from multiple tables
How to insert, update, and delete data
Chapter 12 How to use JDBC to work with a database
How to work with JDBC
An introduction to database drivers
How to connect to a database
How to return a result set and move the cursor through it
How to retrieve data from a result set
How to insert, update, and delete data
How to work with prepared statements
The SQL Gateway application
The user interface
The code for the JSP
The code for the servlet
The code for the utility class
How to work with connection pooling
How connection pooling works
How to make a connection pool available
How to implement a connection pool
How to use a connection pool
The Email List application
The user interface
The code for the JSP
The code for the servlet
The code for the database class
The code for the utility class
Chapter 13 How to use JPA to work with a database
An introduction to JPA
A summary of JPA implementations
Entities and the entity manager
How to configure NetBeans to work with JPA
How to configure a persistence unit
How to code JPA entities
How to code the class for an entity
How to use getter and field annotations
How to code relationships between entities
How to work with dates and times
How to retrieve data
How to get an entity manager factory
How to retrieve an entity by primary key
How to retrieve multiple entities
How to retrieve a single entity
How to modify data
How to insert, update, or delete a single entity
How to update or delete multiple entities
A complete JPA class
The methods that modify data
The methods that retrieve data
Section 4 Advanced servlet and JSP skills
Chapter 14 How to use JavaMail to send mail
An introduction to the JavaMail API
How email works
How to install the JavaMail API
Code that uses the JavaMail API to send an email message
How to create and send an email message
How to create a mail session
How to create a message
How to address a message
How to send a message
Example classes that send an email message
A helper class for sending an email with a local SMTP server
A servlet that uses a helper class to send an email message
A helper class for sending an email with a remote SMTP server
Chapter 15 How to use SSL to work with a secure connection
An introduction to SSL
How SSL works
How TLS works
When to use a secure connection
How SSL authentication works
How to get a digital secure certificate
How to configure a testing environment for SSL
How to create a certificate for testing
How to enable SSL in Tomcat
How to test a local SSL connection
How to work with a secure connection
How to request a secure connection
A JSP that uses a secure connection
How to return to a regular HTTP connection
How to switch from a local system to an Internet server
Chapter 16 How to restrict access to a web resource
An introduction to authentication
How container-managed authentication works
Three types of authentication
How to restrict access to web resources
How to add a security role
How to add a security constraint
How to implement a security realm
How to implement the UserDatabaseRealm
How to implement the JDBCRealm
How to implement the DataSourceRealm
How to allow access to authorized users
How to use basic authentication
How to use digest authentication
How to use form-based authentication
Chapter 17 More security skills
An introduction to website security
Common website attacks
How to prevent social engineering attacks
An introduction to cryptography
Common password attacks
How to protect passwords
How to hash passwords
How to salt passwords
A utility class for hashing and salting passwords
How to enforce password strength requirements
Chapter 18 How to work with HTTP requests and responses
An introduction to HTTP
An HTTP request and response
Common MIME types
Common HTTP request headers
Common HTTP status codes
Common HTTP response headers
How to work with the request
How to get a request header
How to display all request headers
How to work with the response
How to set status codes
How to set response headers
Practical HTTP skills
How to return a spreadsheet
How to control caching
How to compress a response with GZIP
How to return a binary file as an attachment
How to create virtual HTML pages
Chapter 19 How to work with listeners
How to use a ServletContextListener
How to code a class for the listener
How to register the listener
How to code a JSP that uses the attributes set by the listener
How to work with other types of listeners
A summary of the listener interfaces
The methods of the listener interfaces
The methods of the event objects
Chapter 20 How to work with fliters
An introduction to filters
How filters work
Two benefits of filters
When to use filters
How to add a filter
How to code a filter
How to configure a filter
Two filter classes
How to code a filter that performs request-side processing
How to code a filter that performs response-side processing
Other skills for working with filters
How to wrap a request or response
How to use an initialization parameter
How to restrict access by IP address
Chapter 21 How to work with JavaServer Faces
An introduction to JSF
A summary of JSF versions
How to add a JSF library to a project
How to used managed beans
How to create a managed bean
How to set the scope of a bean
How to use standard JSF tags
How to code the head and body tags
How to display data from a managed bean
How to code the inputText tag
How to validate data
How to code a form action
The Email List application
The user interface
The EmailList bean
The index.xhtml file
The thanks.xhtml file
Section 5 The Music Store website
Chapter 22 An introduction to the Music Store website
The user interface
The Home and Catalog pages
The code for the Home page
The business layer
The class diagrams
The Product class
The controller layer
The CatalogController class
The structure
The directory structure
The web.xml file
The context.xml file
The database
The database diagram
The SQL script for the database
The data layer
The class diagrams
The ProductDB class
The JPA version compared to the JDBC version
The similarities
The differences
Chapter 23 The applications of the website
The user interface for end users
The Download application
The Cart application
The user interface for administrators
The Admin Login page
The Admin Menu page
The Process Invoices application
The Reports application
Appendixes
Appendix A How to set up your PC for this book
How to install the source code for this book
How to install the JDK
How to install NetBeans
How to install Tomcat
How to configure a Tomcat server
How to test NetBeans and Tomcat
How to install MySQL
How to create the databases for this book
How to restore the databases for this book
Appendix B How to set up your Mac for this book
How to install the source code for this book
How to install the JDK
How to install NetBeans
How to install Tomcat
How to configure a Tomcat server
How to test NetBeans and Tomcat
How to install the MySQL Community Server
How to install MySQL Workbench
How to create the databases for this book
How to restore the databases for this book
How to update the password for the root user
If you aren’t already familiar with the supporting courseware that we provide for a book, please go to About our Courseware. As you will see, our courseware consists of the end-of-chapter activities in the book, the files in the student download at our retail site, and the instructor’s materials. These components provide everything that other publishers provide in a way that delivers better results.
If you are familiar with our courseware, here’s a quick summary of the courseware for this book. For a detailed description in PDF format, please read the Instructor’s Summary.
End-of-chapter activities in the book
- Chapter summaries
- Practice exercises
Student download at our retail site
- Source code and data for the applications in the book
- Starting code and data for the exercises in the book
- Solutions to the book exercises
In the book, appendix A (for Windows) and appendix B (for Mac) give your students complete instructions for downloading and installing these items on their own systems.
Instructor’s materials
- Instructional objectives by chapter
- PowerPoint slides for classroom presentations
- Test banks in multiple formats
- Extra exercises that aren’t in the book, and their solutions
- Projects and their solutions; these projects are a true test of the competence of your students because they provide minimal guidance
- The files that students can download at our retail site: (1) the book applications, (2) starting code and data for the exercises in the book, and (3) solutions to the exercises in the book
Below are the answers to the questions that have come up most often about this book. If you have any questions that aren't answered here, please email us. Thanks!
Whenever I run the SQLGateway application, I get an error that says “Unable to load authentication plugin 'caching_sha2_password' ”. How can I fix this?
This error is occurring because you have installed MySQL 8.0 or later. Unfortunately, the NetBeans projects for this book use Connector/J drivers that are designed to work with MySQL 5.x. The easiest way to fix this problem is to uninstall MySQL 8.0 and install an earlier version of MySQL such as MySQL 5.7.
Whenever I run an application that attempts to use a connection pool to get a connection to a database, the ConnectionPool class throws a NullPointerException and the application crashes. How can I fix this?
This error is occurring because you have installed MySQL 8.0 or later. Unfortunately, the NetBeans projects for this book use Connector/J drivers that are designed to work with MySQL 5.x. The easiest way to fix this problem is to uninstall MySQL 8.0 and install an earlier version of MySQL such as MySQL 5.7.
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