ken chou

Andrew,
How long did it take you to write this book? Could you tell us your background?

What is finder method?

Tomcat is a good free one.
http://www.webappcabaret.com/javachina/tomcathowto.htm

Thanks.

Do I have to restart Tomcat every time I recompile a bean?

What's the difference betweeen application servers and web servers?

Hi, Jyotsna
It doesn't work when I click on the link that you provided?

I feel that by using "jsp + bean" can accomplish almost everything already. Can anyone give me some good reasons for using Servlet?

On your jsp page, you need to declare the varable "name" like the following:
<%! String name = null; %>

Go to this link: http://www.javaranch.com/ubb/Forum7/HTML/000598.html

I believe you can include some other jsp pages(not only html pages) to your jsp pages.

By using Servlet, you can simplify HTML generation by creating a HTML class. Go to: http://www.wrox.com/Books/Book_down.asp?sub_section=1&isbn=1861002777&subject=Java&subject_id=13
download the "Chapter 2 source code", you will see a very good example.

That's ok. You just need to create a new account that follows the rules if you would like to be a real member here.

What is the maximum available sessions for a given servlet engine? If we are running a very popular website like Yahoo, how many people can access at the same time? What would be the limitation?

Take a look at
JavaRanch's naming policy. Your name at least should be 2 separate names with more than 1 letter each.
[This message has been edited by ken chou (edited July 18, 2001).]