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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: 1-930110-50-2 Publisher: Manning Publications Company Pub. Date: November, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $44.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.6 (53 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Excellent book
Comment: I've been programming with Struts for 2 years now (and Java for 3) and I wish I had had this book when I started. Even though I now know Struts to about the 75% level, thanks greatly to this book which helped me in the upgrade from version 1.0 to 1.1, Struts never ceases to amaze me - what it can do, the work that it can save a web programmer, its robustness and its elegance too.
The down-side is of course the steep learning curve, and the sticking points that I still come across where I have programmed or configured something wrong and can't work out why. In both these areas this book is invaluable.
In the first case if someone needs to learn Struts, this covers the basics and provides a good grounding, and secondly I found the contents page and the indexing always lead me straight to the point in the text where I need to be when I've just created a bug in my code or I don't know how to approach a problem.
Struts in Action is well written with flowing text and clear explanations, even to the point where I sometimes find myself reading the whole chapter after looking up and finding a little snippet of info - you never know what else you might learn.
Rating: 5
Summary: just the book for opensource-savvy developers
Comment: I read thru a number of Struts books in order to understand how a couple of other frameworks like Tiles, Validator and Velocity gel with Struts, in short I wanted a deeper understanding on the framework of frameworks, I was left feeling I am trying an exercise in futility. Gladly and thankfully this book left a quite different impression, it explains the Struts innards really well, marking out the differences between V1.0 and V1.1, building the foundation thru detailed idiot-proof examples, and then gets down to the goodies.
I agree with some other reviewers in that the number/density of examples go down as you get along, and I disagree with them in that that's a bad thing. Remember, unlike many other books where you can decide to read chapters in any order, this book would add most value if chapters are read sequentially from start, they are already logically organized and one builds on another, and once you really go thru the first few chapters understanding them thoroughly, I mean not by only reading them but by writing your own code along with, you would NOT need the idiot-proof examples to grasp the meat of the later chapters, once you got the foundation right you can easily get the feel of it. This is not a 'for idiots' book and I would like to thank the authors for keeping it that way, you have enough information in the book to understand the Struts framework (and then some) pretty well, but you gotta take your hands outta your pockets and write some code!
I liked the way Tiles, Validator and Velocity has been explained, keep up the good work Ted!
Rating: 2
Summary: Not A Good Introduction
Comment: I knew nothing about struts before picking up this book. I know just a little more after having read all that I can stand of it. The book provides very little example code and what it does provide is just in little snippets that don't really help. I'm halfway through the book and I can't take any more theory without being able to get some basic examples running. I consider this book more of a reference than a learning tool. I am abandoning it in favor of a different book. If you're new to struts, look elsewhere for a good introduction.
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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: 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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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: 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: Eclipse in Action: A Guide for the Java Developer by David Gallardo, Ed Burnette, Robert McGovern ISBN: 1930110960 Publisher: Manning Publications Company Pub. Date: 15 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $44.95 |
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