[WDSCI-L] JSP and WebSphere App Server

["Michael Patton" <mpatton@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Aaron:

If you're already an advanced beginner in Java, my opinion is that the main
things you need to know about JSP are:

1. What are the "pre-defined" objects (a/k/a implicit objects) available to
all JSP pages (see
http://javaboutique.internet.com/tutorials/JSP/part11/page07.html)
2. How to balance the starts and ends of JSP tags (<% and %>)
3. How to intersperse JSP tags with HTML or Javascript
4. How to access JSP results within HTML or Javascript (<%=variablename%>)

Perhaps not worth a book - you might want to consider just spending another
20 minutes, and I'd guess you'd have it nailed enough to enter into "trial
and error land"

Some potentially useful links:
http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/onlineTraining/J2EE/Intro2/jsp/jsp.h
tml
http://www.jsptut.com
http://javaboutique.internet.com/tutorials/JSP

MP

date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 12:43:33 -0600
from: "Bartell, Aaron L. (TC)" <ALBartell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: [WDSCI-L] JSP and WebSphere App Server

Had a spare 20 minutes so I decided to check out the features in WDSc that
had to do with WebSphere App Server, and try and learn JSP at the same time.

I followed one of the tutorials (Insurance Claims) to create an entire
application and was surprised to have it build the entire app successfully
_and_ WAS started up just fine.  Very impressed (don't ask me why, I just
wasn't expecting that).

Good job on that tutorial/template WDSc Team!

Now I am really excited to learn JSP's so I can start creating my own apps.
Anybody have any suggestions on where to get good JSP information that won't
lose me on the first page?  I already know Java at a "experienced beginner"
level.  I am looking through the WDSc JSP documentation right now.


Thanks,
Aaron Bartell