Books on JSP, Servlets, and Related Technologies

Books Covering Both Servlets and JSP

• Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages. Sun Press. The alltime best-selling servlet and JSP book. Available in Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, English, French, German, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, and Spanish. See also:
  • Book's home page. Free examination copies, TOC, reviews, foreign translations, etc.
  • Book's source code archive. All code from examples in book. Free for unrestricted use.
  • Online version of book (in PDF)
• More Servlets and JavaServer Pages. Sun Press. New book that covers filters, life-cycle listeners, TagLibraryValidator, JSTL, Web application security, and other new topics. Includes thorough review of the basics and references to free online version of Core Servlets and JSP, so new readers can start here without having the previous book. See also:
  • Book's home page. Free exam copies, TOC, sample chapters, etc.
  • Book's source code archive. All code from examples in book. Free for unrestricted use.
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Books On JSP

• Web Development with JavaServer Pages (2nd Edition). Manning. The best of the JSP-only books. Highly recommended.
• Professional JSP (2nd Edition). Wrox. Again, good coverage of topics, but again suffers from the Wrox written-by-many-authors disjointedness.
• Advanced JavaServer Pages. Sun Press. Good coverage of advanced topics.
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Books On Servlets

• Java Servlet Programming (2nd Edition). O'Reilly. By far the best of the servlet-only books.
• Professional Java Servlets 2.3. Wrox. Excellent coverage of topics, but suffers from the Wrox written-by-many-authors disjointedness.
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Books On Specialized Servlet/JSP-Related Topics

• The JSP Standard Tag Library (JSTL)
  • Core JSTL. Sun Microsystems Press and Prentice Hall. This is the book I used to learn JSTL, and I recommend it highly.
  • JSTL in Action. Manning. From one of the authors of the spec. I have the book and find it informative and well written.
• JSP Tag Libraries. Manning.
• Mastering Jakarta Struts. Wiley.
• Java Tools for Extreme Programming: Mastering Open Source Tools Including Ant, JUnit, and Cactus. This is not really an XP book: it is mostly a book on how to use the code-management tools. A guide to ant, in particular, is useful to many servlet and JSP developers.
• Developer's Guide to Tomcat 4. Manning.
• BEA Weblogic Server Bible.
• IBM WebSphere Application Server: The Complete Reference. Osborne.
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Books On EJB/J2EE

• Enterprise JavaBeans (3rd Edition). O'Reilly.
• Mastering Enterprise JavaBeans (2nd Edition). Wiley.
• Professional Java Server Programming J2EE, 1.3 Edition. Wrox. As usual, good coverage of topics, but as usual suffers from the Wrox written-by-many-authors disjointedness.
• Java for the Web with Servlets, JSP, and EJB: A Developer's Guide to J2EE Solutions. New Riders. Good choice of topics.
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Books On J2EE-Related Patterns/Architectures

• Core J2EE Patterns. Sun Press.
• EJB Design Patterns. Wiley.
• Building Java Enterprise Applications, Vol. 1: Architecture. O'Reilly.
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