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Title: Professional Struts Applications: Building Web Sites with Struts, Object Relational Bridge, Lucene, and Velocity by John Carnell, Jeff Linwood, Maciej Zawadzki ISBN: 1861007817 Publisher: Wrox Press Inc Pub. Date: March, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5
Rating: 4
Summary: Excellent material, poor editing
Comment: The first chapter of this book provides an amazingly well thought out conceptual presentation of 6 antipatterns (counter-productive/negative design patterns) common to web application architecture. As a web developer for the past 5 years this chapter was incredibly insightful for me. The author definitely has very extensive experience with the topic.
The remainder of the book focuses of the application of struts and other jakarta projects to successfully avoid the previously discussed antipatterns. To accomplish this the book provides a fully functional, downloadable companion application (downloaded from the wrox website). The power in this is that it provides for a very interractive teaching method... by example. This was far superior to the majority of other books I have read which provide only small non-cohesive code tidbits scattered throughout the text.
Reading this book has allowed me to go from having only a limited knowledge about jakarta, to being somewhat confident with implementing a basic web application utilizing jakarta projects including struts and applying j2ee design patterns.
You must be familiar with servlets, jsp, and tomcat (or another servlet container) prior to reading and applying this book. It is definitely not for a j2ee novice.
My only complaint about this book is the number of typos and errors in the text. I have found countless errors in the text and diagrams which have at times made understanding it difficult. Most of these are not even listed on the errata section of the book's website.
Rating: 5
Summary: Very good Struts, OJB getting started guide
Comment: Before you start coding, do some planning. The Struts and OJB frameworks are powerful, but a little complex. This book explains how they work. Of more value, though, is much needed discussion of how to use them effectively - to avoid antipatterns and misuse of the frameworks, and to use them to solve the right problems.
If you have decided to use Struts and OJB as foundations for your web app architecture, then I highly recommend this book.
While waiting for the book to arrive, I suggest going to http://....org/ for info on Struts, Lucene, and Velocity; and to http://.../ojb/ for OJB. Learn about how these frameworks work, and what they are used for. The book will then fill in lots of details, and provide best practices, etc.
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Title: Struts in Action: Building Web Applications with the Leading Java Framework by Ted Husted, Cedric Dumoulin, George Franciscus, David Winterfeldt, Craig R. McClanahan ISBN: 1930110502 Publisher: Manning Publications Company Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $44.95 |
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Title: Programming Jakarta Struts by Chuck Cavaness ISBN: 0596003285 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Expert One-on-One J2EE Design and Development by Rod Johnson ISBN: 1861007841 Publisher: Wrox Press Inc Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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Title: The Struts Framework: Practical Guide for Programmers by Sue Spielman ISBN: 1558608621 Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Java Development With Ant by Erik Hatcher, Steve Loughran ISBN: 1930110588 Publisher: Manning Publications Company Pub. Date: August, 2002 List Price(USD): $44.95 |
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