JSP Book Recommendation and adding JSTL to Tomcat 5.5

[kellygreer1]

I'm having trouble finding out how to add JSTL capabilities to Tomcat
5.5. Is there any good site for this information? Is JSTL still
'relevant' techology? This following page seems dated.
http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/jstl/
The Jakarta Taglibs page - http://jakarta.apache.org/taglibs/index.html
seems to say they are not doing a 1.2 implementation.

What books would you guys recommend for someone who has done ASP.NET,
Classic ASP, and PHP and understands Java SE?

Is this one a good start?
http://www.amazon.com/Pro-Fourth-Experts-Voice-Java/dp/1590595130/

Thanks in advance,
Kelly Greer
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[Arne Vajhøj]

I'm having trouble finding out how to add JSTL capabilities to Tomcat
5.5. Is there any good site for this information?

Download the Jakarta JSTL implementation, unpack and
copy jstl.jar and standard.jar to WEB-INF/lib and
you should be running.

> Is JSTL still
'relevant' techology?

Yes. Absolutely.

The Jakarta Taglibs page - http://jakarta.apache.org/taglibs/index.html
seems to say they are not doing a 1.2 implementation.

All Java EE 5 containers must implement JSTL 1.2, so many other
have such an implementation.

What books would you guys recommend for someone who has done ASP.NET,
Classic ASP, and PHP and understands Java SE?

If you like ASP.NET, then I think you should look at JSF.

Arne

 

[Lew]

Download the Jakarta JSTL implementation, unpack and
copy jstl.jar and standard.jar to WEB-INF/lib and
you should be running.


Yes. Absolutely.


All Java EE 5 containers must implement JSTL 1.2, so many other
have such an implementation.


If you like ASP.NET, then I think you should look at JSF.

Sun's Java EE 5 and the Glassfish project include JSTL libs, as Arne pointed
out implicitly.

For instruction I learned JSTL from the Sun Java EE tutorial:
<http://java.sun.com/javaee/5/docs/tutorial/doc/bnakc.html>

 

[kellygreer1]

Sun's Java EE 5 and the Glassfish project include JSTL libs, as Arne pointed
out implicitly.

For instruction I learned JSTL from the Sun Java EE tutorial:
<http://java.sun.com/javaee/5/docs/tutorial/doc/bnakc.html>

Well, I did finally get JSTL 1.1 working on Tomcat 5.5.

So thoughts on books...
What would be a good book that would walk me through
JSP, JSP + JSTL and then the beginning of JSF and Struts.

To answer the question about ASP.NET... Is a little bulky. I have to
do it for my 'day' job.
I do like the fact that the latest version gives you some of the
AJAX.NET stuff out of the box instead of having to bolt it on later.
They still make you download the AJAX Controls. Arghh. Also the
upcoming MVC extensions sound pretty cool.

Basically, I'm looking for a new web technology to write apps for LAMP
(minus the PHP).
I'm just fed up with PHP. The language is a mess with no real
direction. I'm not crazy about Python. Ruby is pretty cool. I think
I have been spoiled by .NET. I have the comfort of knowing I have all
those libraries to tap into. I would get the same thing from Java.
And Java seem to branching in interesting directions with Groovy and
Scala.

Thanks for any thoughts on the book questions,
kellygreer1