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Struts Design and Programming: A Tutorial

Format: Paperback
Author: Budi Kurniawan
ReleaseDate: 01 April, 2005
Publisher: BrainySoftware.com
Rating:

Good Resource and Starting Point


This book is nice because it covers topics outside of the Struts domain in order to better explain what is going on with Struts and how it interacts with other technologies like Servlets, JSPs, tag libraries, etc. Struts itself is not very intuitive, especially for people new to developing web applications.

The author claims that this is a tutorial book, meant to be reader cover-to-cover, but I disagree. At times, there are many details that you might not ever need that can be skipped, but these could make a good reference someday.

Overall, the general concepts are pretty nicely explained, considering the weirdness of Struts, and I can safely recommend it for a beginner or intermediate web app developer.

New to struts, had my app up and running with not too much fuss, thanks to this book.


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This book is great. first off, I don't know the authors, and am not connected with the book in any way. I know Java, and JSPs. Servlets are new to be, but there isn't much to those.

This book got me up and running pretty quickly, especially considering I'm using eclipse to develop the app, and OC4J to compile stuff.

This book obviously didn't have the details for implementing on those platforms, but it had all the info I needed for the other parts.

It has good explanations for the way pieces fit together, and even some very helpful warning tips that keep you from common misunderstandings.

Thanks to the authors!.

Excellent Book
. Excellent book.. After reading three other Struts book, this book has several examples that really broke Struts down to where I could easily understand.