Only for beginners
This book is like a quick tutorial and introduces the most important parts of Struts. It shows you a door to know Struts but can't help you become an expert. Once you know what struts is. You might need another book, "Struts in Action". "Strus in Action" lists more details, which you will need when developing your struts applications.
Also, after reading the book, I found some errors or unclear issue. Such as:
In Chpater 1, it didn't tell readers that they must copy *.tld files to WEB-INF.
In Chpater 6, it didn't tell readers how to config Locale.
Generally speaking, this book is still good enough for a beginner to buy.
Simple and outdated
This is a quick read on struts. By the time it came out, it was a little outdated and some of the code did not work. The concepts were described quite well and example that did work were well done. This is written for struts 1.0 and not 1.1 and definitely not 1.2. Find this one at the outlet bookstore or buy it used if you think you really need it, or better yet, borrow it from a friend.
Narrow coverage, easy to follow format, but poor editing job
This book would be a good book to start with for Struts beginners, but in no case this should be the last. One good thing is that the author takes the reader thru easy-to-follow steps to setup and code for every example/feature. Highlighting changes to a file as it matures thru different stages is a good idea but has not been carried thru in a clean way in this book, this book looks like it has been published in a hurry, some sections has not been updated after a cut&paste, some method signatures are not proper (init in PlugIn), I gather struts-tiles could have been used to beautifully demonstrate the power of Plugins.Struts framework has been the seed for so many different solutions and other frameworks that one would expect atleast some passing mention of tools and solutions based on Struts, nada, there's none here, this book solely focuses on a couple of Struts related classes and the taglibs, one needs to know more in order to weild the full power provided by Struts. I can only suggest this as a quick reference for beginners, nothing more.
by the way, if you are using TomCat 5.0.7 and wondering why the application does not work, upgrade TomCat, bug there!
I strongly recommend 'Struts in Action' by ted Husted et. al. in addition to/ instead of this book.
A correction - RTFM
A quick correction to someone's review below:1. This is a Wiley book, so its no surprise you can't find the code for it at the Wrox site.
2. And the code for the Wrox book *is* available at their site.
Moral: Put brain in gear before engaging mouth ...
Very good for a beginnig
Hi,
I recently read this book and I recommend it for a beginned that has never worked with such a framewok. This book does not cover all the Jakarta Struts topic, but to begin with it is excellent. I also recommend to download on theServerSite web site a pdf book on this framework.
Max Pellizzaro
http://www.maxpellizzaro.com
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