About Marty Hall
Marty Hall is the author of Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages (first and second editions), More Servlets and JavaServer Pages, and Core Web Programming (first and second editions) from Prentice Hall and Sun Microsystems Press. Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages is the single most popular book on servlets and JSP internationally, was selected by amazon.com as one of the best five computer programming books of the year, has been the overall weekly #1 bestseller at fatbrain.com nine different times, and spent more than six months as one of the top 10 best-selling computer-related books at amazon.com and at Borders stores nationwide. Available versions include Bulgarian, Chinese Simplified Script (Mainland China), Chinese Traditional Script (Taiwan), Czech, English (North/South America, Europe), English (Reprinted in India), French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Macedonian, Polish, Portugese, Russian, and Spanish. Core Web Programming has been a best seller in industry as well as being widely used in academia (including Stanford, MIT, Princeton, U.C. Berkeley, UCLA, and Johns Hopkins).
In addition to long Java development and consulting experience, Marty has extensive teaching and training experience, delivering short courses on JSP, servlets, Jakarta Struts, JSF, Ajax, GWT, and Java programming in the US, Japan, Canada, Australia, the Philippines, Mexico, and Puerto Rico. He has spoken on J2EE technology at many conferences, including JavaOne (5 times), the Web 2.0 Expo, SD West, Comdex, the International Conference for Java Development, and Java user groups in several countries.