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Title: Professional Jakarta Struts by James Goodwill, Richard Hightower ISBN: 0-7645-4437-3 Publisher: Wrox Pub. Date: 22 September, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.83 (6 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Bad Coding in Examples
Comment: It seems to me that the two authors do not have much experience with good coding practices. The examples presented in the book contain useless idioms such as 'new String("success")'. A book with the word "professional" in the title should try to promote a better style.
Also, the way information is presented in the book does not work for me. For instance when talking the authors are building examples after examples and then tell the reader that in practice this approach is unlikely to work. What is wrong with just getting to the point and telling people how to do it right. I have to confess I fell asleep repeatedly while trying to get to the point in the book where the authors may explain how to use tiles appropriately in large projects.
Rating: 1
Summary: This book needs help
Comment: This book is VERY poorly edited. Yes, by brute force I've learned a bit more about Struts than what I'd already learned previously from a few tutorials.
It seems these authors may know lots about the topic but do NOT communicate it well. Topics are introduced within other topics without so much as an explanation. Actions, ActionMappings, ActionErrors, etc., are introduced without sufficient explanation as to why and in what situations they should be used. There are errors throughout. In sample code on a page an explanation refers to "highlighted lines in the code". -- Nothing is highlighted!!! This is just the tip of the iceberg.
I downloaded the sample code from the Wrox web site and it is in disarray.
After looking around the Wrox site it seems they are in disarray as well. It seems they've been bought, sold, or whatever recently.
After having published such a great book with XSLT, 2nd edition by Michael Kay back in April, 2001, I'm highly disappointed with this recent (2003) Wrox publication.
A good book not only requires authors competent in the subject matter (which these *seem* to be) but need to have the ability to communicate/teach the topic well. And, editors are necessary to ensure cohesion, consistency, and accuracy. The later two have clearly not been accomplished here.
I feel burned and would be reluctant to get another book from Wrox unless and until they can somehow prove they can raise the bar significantly.
BUYER BEWARE!
Rating: 5
Summary: Great book on Jakarta Struts.
Comment: Title: Professional Jakarta Struts
Edition: 1st Edition(?)
Author: James Goodwill and Richard Hightower
City: Indianapolis, IN 46256
Publisher: Wrox Publishers, John Wiley and Sons
Published Date: Winter 2003/2004.
5=Well done! This book will be a valuable teaching and reference tool.
4=I would recommend this book to someone interested in its topic.
5=A complete reference. I would not need any additional reference on this topic.
Write a minimum of three paragraphs describing the different aspects of this book.
This is an excellent book on Jakarta Struts. Wrox publishers and the authors had done an excellent job in explaining the concepts of Jakarata struts. the book begins with servlet containers, jsps (upto 2 chapters) and how the struts fits
into the scheme of things.
the book goes into different aspects of the struts, the MVC, and the controller concepts. there are a lot of examples to explain the concepts for people of various expertise and background.
the book also shows how to debug in 2 different environments such as eclipse and Jidea. the authors have shown how to create a new application from scratch in the last chapter
and that is an excellent way to implement a Jakarta struts application.
this book is a great reference book.
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Title: Expert One-on-One J2EE Design and Development by Rod Johnson ISBN: 0764543857 Publisher: Wrox Pub. Date: 23 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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Title: Programming Jakarta Struts by Chuck Cavaness ISBN: 0596003285 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 13 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Jakarta Pitfalls : Time-Saving Solutions for Struts, Ant, JUnit, and Cactus (Java Open Source Library) by Bill Dudney, Jonathan Lehr ISBN: 0471449156 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 14 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: Core J2EE Patterns: Best Practices and Design Strategies, Second Edition by Deepak Alur, Dan Malks, John Crupi ISBN: 0131422464 Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Pub. Date: 10 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: The Struts Framework: Practical Guide for Java Programmers by Sue Spielman ISBN: 1558608621 Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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