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Review title: Not practical
Product review: I love the idea of this book. Show the evolution of a framework and show an increasingly complex system evolve. Give the user the code and let them work along.But the execution of the concept is terrible. I have had to tinker with even the examples from chapters 2 and 3 to get them to run at all. I'll admit that the authors picked a daunting task. Just getting the Servlet engine, JSP engine, the personal web server and the ODBC database connections would stop most readers cold. After stuggling with that, I had little patience to debug their code. The Wrox site tells you to see "the errata", but I can't find this.And one thing I'm still struggling to learn or even find out if it exists - decent debugging tools and techniques for Servlets. I feel like I'm back in the 70's, what with my command line and worrying about environment space and variables. God but I wish I could step through this code rather than sprinkle it with the author's own "Logger" statements.
