Hi Everybody,
Though Kathy explained in detail. I am niether a neurobilogest nor a member of the writing staff. But I have been convinced with this learning approach. The topic that otherwise would take me to read hours and hours to be digested by my brain, HF series has made that matter of going through a few diagrams and then related Question-Answer session. For instance the idea of proxy stubs movement from server to client, was though clear somewhat but I didn't have any specific shape of in my mind for a stub. When I would recall a stub, a paragraph of text that explained that to me first would appear up but after I saw a 'physcial' proxy picture
( HF SCBCD), it makes me easy to recall. Same happend with request, response objects, I knew they are there, I knew these are provided by container but how those 'physical' simulations (As presented by HF
Servlets and
JSP) of request, response cleared my concept, now instead of thinkiong some '10101010...' I would think it as some solid objects and then of course their limiatations when response is committed and crossing them out really made the concepts of how one server responds to so many requests without mingling up the contents, could only make its place when I 'physically' contemplate about those. This is very true, when we read some text, say, RequestDispatcher, is recalled then how our mind shape it as a collection of 'Letters' most probably in the same style, when first or last depending on when concept was cleared, we have seen those in some book. I may not be able to present it very much clearly but imagine can we develop a LinkedList operation without actually drawing a node. Specially imagine when we need to introduce delete opration of a node, how we have to draw boxes each representing a node in the list, only after we draw that chain of boxes it makes sense as to actually how we have to manipulate the references in it.
I am a great admirer of this approach of presenatation as HF followed. I have purchased all three books of this servies, although I already had plenty of
Java books and was using this language for 6-7 years but still I am learning from what I got in the HF version. I am making the 'photos' of the objects through this approach. I have recommedned this book to many of my friends. At the same time I would like to suggest writers to distribute a CD with this book that should contain the simulated vesrion of the code magnets puzzles and also, I know this might be too demanding but, an animated version of a request process, e.g,. how request travels from Browser and then passes web server, then container ..and uptill creation
thread and destroying of objects. This would be a great help for crystal clear understanding and lasting impact that may be easy to recall. We don't forget movies, you know!!!
