The JSP W3C expert committee members who wrote this book are considered the foremost authorities on the JSP 2.0 and Servlets 2.4 specifications. The comprehensive manual for creating web applications with Java Servlets and JavaServer Pages is called Servlets and JavaServer Pages.
The fundamentals covered in this book include setting up a JSP/Servlet environment on your computer, HTTP, HTML forms, JSP 2.0, Servlets 2.4, customized tag libraries, and the JSTL 1.0. The most complicated topics in the book are also covered, including error handling, design patterns, internationalization, and multilingual sites, security, sessions and state management, database connectivity, and creating sites that can generate material in several forms on demand. This book shows how to make applications that are scalable, reliable, and performant using the Servlet and JSP specifications!