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Jakarta Struts Cookbook

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Programming Jakarta Struts, 2nd Edition

Format: Paperback
Author: Chuck Cavaness
ReleaseDate: 21 June, 2004
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Rating:

Sorely Lacking
Instead it's just like so many other technical books out there where they give top-soil kind of overviews of the technology. I am very dissapointed in this book, as I purchased it thinking it would give real techniques for using struts. It may be for getting basic concepts of struts, but whenever I find myself trying to lookup up real-world solutions there are no answers.

Good as reference
Being a Struts developer himself, the author understands the topics very well. This is the first Struts book ever published and the one I bought when I first learned Struts. For exmaple, the MVC design pattern was explained well, and so were Struts Validation, HTML , Bean, and Logic libraries. Tiles is also covered well. However, there are some parts where he stumbled. For example, he could not be sure whether the Action class is part of the Model in the MVC pattern or part of the Controller. Therefore, I don't think you should get this book if you just first learn Struts (For tutorial, get "Struts in Action" (Manning) or, better still, the lesser known "Struts Design and Programming: A Tutorial")

Overall, this book deserves 4 stars, included in my wish list for next editions are EL and JSTL (for the View part in the MVC) and real-world examples.

Very Good
It's worth it. It's a good book, struts is not easy to understand, this book goes into details we wouldn't study with the complex documentation at the jakarta struts site.