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Title: Programming Jakarta Struts by Chuck Cavaness ISBN: 0-596-00328-5 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 13 November, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.57 (51 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Great Advanced Guide to Struts
Comment: This book is a must have! I've been programming with Struts for about 6 months and I didn't want a beginners guide. This book hits the perfect level with me and covers the stuff that I wanted to know about. It's definitely not a beginners guide, although I think even beginning Struts developers should read it to save themselves time later.
Here's why I'm giving it five stars:
Chapter 1 - Covers MVC and Model 2 Background and Trivia
Chapter 2 - Covers Request/Response and Forward/Redirect Info
Chapter 3 - Good overview of the framework with the Bank example (All banking code is provided, including Ant scripts)
Chapter 4 - A complete chapter on configuring the web.xml and struts-config.xml (Some parameter are missing because of changes after book release)
Chapter 5 - A great chapter on explaining the controller of Struts
Chapter 6 - The reason to buy this book! Everything you ever wanted to know about how to build the model for Struts
Chapter 7 - Dynamic Forms Coverage (Good Coverage)
Chapter 8 - Tags (This chapter could have been better!)
Chapter 9 - The explanation of why and how to extend Struts if neccessary for any real Struts applications.
Chapter 10 - Great coverage of the declarative and programmatic exception handling
Chapter 11 - Coverage of the validator framework. Also covers how to create your own rules and to use it outside of Struts
Chapter 12 - Good I18N Coverage
Chapter 13 - Excellent chapter on EJBs and Struts (A must read!!!)
Chapter 14 - Tiles, but I've not read this chapter close enough to comment.
Chapter 15 - The best information available on Logging in a web application (A must read by all!)
Chapter 16 - Solid coverage of using Ant to package Struts. (Ant scripts are included)
Chapter 17 - Decent chapter on Performance
Overall, each chapter covers exactly what more advanced Struts users want and need.
You can't go wrong buying this book!
Rating: 3
Summary: A disappointment
Comment: I've relied on O'Reilly books to provide the gist for any number of topics but this one disappoints on a number of levels. Too much filler material (if you don't know about EJBs and WARs then you shouldn't be reading this book) and an imbalance of detail. I need to know how to enable debugging in struts-config.xml or how to specify the message properties files in web.xml, not individual attributes to custom tags; I can find those in the javadocs.
Granted it's a relatively new technology but this treatise didn't provide much more than what I could find on-line. There wasn't even decent coverage of the specifics of minLength and other validator features. Trash the fluff and stick to the details which implementors require and you might have a decent book.
Now I'll just have to buy the Husted tome. It's not like I'm made of money, you know? I just can't recommend this book to someone trying to develop a production application in "web time".
Rating: 3
Summary: Not for beginners
Comment: This book shouldn't be your first Strut's book, at least if you are learning by yourself. I think it lacks a full example, step by step.
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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: 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: Tomcat: The Definitive Guide by Jason Brittain, Ian F. Darwin ISBN: 0596003188 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Jakarta Struts Pocket Reference by Chuck Cavaness, Brian Keeton ISBN: 0596005199 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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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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