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Title: Examples actually work
Review: I tried this book after getting thoroughly frustrated with the O'Reilly Servlet book, that seems to be getting unwarrented good reviews. I read both books, and as a Java newbie I was only able to learn somthing from the Java Masters book. The experienced Java Programmers around me found the O'Reilly book to be insightful, however they only read it they didnt try it, I tried this book and refused to move on until I could get it to work, I didnt not until I read this book and applied the code fixes from this book and everything worked as predicted.However I had one problem with this book, it guides you through the early chapters pointing out everything you need to know, however as you move into more complicated applications, explanations became short and less cohesive.Overall I thought the book was very good especially for beginners.
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