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JSP for Practical Program Design (1996)

This 1996 book by Dudney and Krawczyk provides practical guidance on using JavaServer Pages (JSP) for web application development, covering design patterns, syntax, and real-world implementation techniques for building dynamic web content.

Background

- Published in 1996, this book covers JavaServer Pages (JSP), a server-side technology that lets developers embed Java code inside HTML pages to generate dynamic web content. JSP was a direct competitor to Microsoft's ASP (Active Server Pages) and would later be superseded by frameworks like JavaServer Faces (JSF). - At the time of the book's release, the commercial Web was still young: Amazon had been public for less than a year, Google didn't exist, and most websites served static HTML. JSP promised a simpler, cross-platform alternative to CGI scripts (the dominant way to make dynamic sites in the mid-1990s). - The author, Doug Dudman, wrote for a niche audience of mid-1990s programmers moving from desktop applications to the early Web — a transition that defined the dot-com boom.

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