bull; Introduces powerful new Servlet/JSP techniques that take advantage of the new features of JSP 2.0, servlets 2.4, and the JSP Standard Tag Library (JSTL) bull; Covers advanced JDBC topics, XML integration, Apache Struts and Integrating servlets and JSP with the Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture bull; Written by best-selling author Marty Hall -- who states this is "a significant revision. "

MARTY HALL is president of coreservlets.com, Inc., a small company that provides training courses and consulting services related to server-side Java technology. He also teaches Java and Web programming in the Johns Hopkins University part-time graduate program in Computer Science, where he directs the Distributed Computing and Web Technology concentration areas. Marty is the author of four books from Prentice Hall and Sun Microsystems Press: the first edition of Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages, More Servlets and JavaServer Pages, and the first and second editions of Core Web Programming.

LARRY BROWN is a Senior Network Engineer and Oracle DBA for the U.S. Navy (NSWCCD), where he specializes in developing and deploying network and Web solutions in an enterprise environment. He is also a Computer Science faculty member at the Johns Hopkins University, where he teachers server-side programming, distributed Web programming, and Java user interface development for the part-time graduate program. Larry is the co-author of the second edition of Core Web Programming, also from Prentice Hall and Sun Microsystems Press.

Suppose your company wants to sell products online. You have a database that gives the price and inventory status of each item. But, your database doesn't speak HTTP, the protocol that Web browsers use. Nor does it output HTML, the format Web browsers need. What can you do? Once users know what they want to buy, how do you gather that information? You want to customize your site for visitors' preferences and interests--how? You want to keep track of user's purchases as they shop at your site--what techniques are required to implement this behavior? When your Web site becomes popular, you might want to compress pages to reduce bandwidth. How can you do this without causing your site to fail for the those visitors whose browsers don't support compression? In all these cases, you need a program to act as the intermediary between the browser and some server-side resource. This book is about using the Java platform for this type of program. "Wait a second," you say. "Didn't youalreadywrite a book about that?" Well, yes. In May of 2000, Sun Microsystems Press and Prentice Hall released Marty's second book,Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages. It was successful beyond everyone's wildest expectations, selling approximately 100,000 copies, getting translated into Bulgarian, Chinese simplified script, Chinese traditional script, Czech, French, German, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, and Spanish, and being chosen by Amazon.com as one of the top five computer programming books of 2001. What fun! Since then, use of servlets and JSP has continued to grow at a phenomenal rate. The Java 2 Platform has become the technology of choice for developing e-commerce applications, dynamic Web sites, and Web-enabled applications and service. Servlets and JSP continue to be the foundation of this platform--they provide the link between Web clients and server-side applications. Virtually all major Web servers for Windows, Unix (including Linux), MacOS, VMS, and mainframe operating systems now support servlet and JSP technology either natively or by means of a plugin. With only a small amount of configuration, you can run servlets and JSP in Microsoft IIS, the Apache Web Server, IBM WebSphere, BEA WebLogic, Oracle Application Server 10g, and dozens of other servers. Performance of both commercial and open-source servlet and JSP engines has improved significantly. To no one's surprise, this field continues to grow at a rapid rate. As a result, we could no longer cover the technology in a single book.Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages, Volume 1: Core Technologies, covers the servlet and JSP capabilities that you are likely to use in almost every real-life project. This book,Volume 2: Advanced Technologies, covers features that you may use less frequently but are extremely valuable in robust applications. For example, Deployment descriptor file. Through the proper use of the deployment descriptor file, web.xml, you can control many aspects of the Web application behavior, from preloading servlets, to restricting resource access, to controlling session time-outs. Web application security. In any Web application today, security is a must! The servlet and JSP security model allows you to easily create login pages and control access to resources. Custom tag libraries. Custom tags significantly improve the design of JSPs. Custom tags allow you to easily develop your own library of reusable tags specific to your business applications. In addition to creating your own tags, we cover the Standard Tag Library (JSTL). Event handling. With the events framework, you can control initialization and shutdown of the Web application, recognize destruction of HTTP sessions, and set application wide values. Servlet and JSP filters. With filters, you can apply many pre and post processing actions. For instance, loggi