Remember the code?

So here is my first summery on the Head First Servlet & JSP. It is a very nice book in fact and much easier to memorize as the book instruction explained. But it is not easy to find the particular topics and specific details because they are distributed through out various chapters. I guess the authors have decided that way to make relevance with other chapters or for the repetition purpose.

So I started write down on paper what I think the most important keywords are and then decided to write a blog entry so I can search the content whenever I need to look up.

The first Three chapters are basically some introduction on how HTTP and Web is working. I believe they are basic and not worth to include here.

WARNING: This cram sheets are only for the quick review of what you already should know. You should first buy the book and read it if you do not have enough experience or knowledge.

Chapter 1 ~ Chapter 3 are basic concept.

(*) Container

• Communication Support
• Lifecycle management
• Multithreading support
• JSP Support

Servlet service() method will call doGet() / doPost()

Deployment Descriptor (DD) — XML

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10

<web -app …>
<servlet>
	</servlet><servlet -name>Servlet Name</servlet>
	<servlet -class>com.test.ServletClass</servlet>
 
<servlet -mapping>
	</servlet><servlet -name>Servlet Name</servlet>
	<url -pattern>/test/*.do</url>
 
</web>

Read the rest of this entry »

Okay, I bought Head First Servlets & JSP book.

I was kind of worried when I bought the book online cause it seems that it has too many images. It could confuse you and distract the concentration. By the way, I paid $32 with free shipping at buy.com.

When I finally received and opened the book , It has lots of pictures as I suspected. But hey, I decided to give a try anyway. The book says that it is doing its best to enhance the memorization by showing lots of pictures and so on.

Now that I have read the first introduction and few pages from the first chapter, I actually like the book. It was kind of funny and easy to read book for the certification preparation.

Why don’t I make a summery for each chapter? I will do that so I can have another purpose of studying SCWCD.

I am looking for the best book for the preparation of SCWCD.

They say that ‘Head First SCWCD from Oreilly‘ is good and there is another book named ‘SCWCD Exam Study Kit from Manning‘.

I am more likely to buy the Head First series because the second edition is out recently for the latest exam upgraded for java 5.0.