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Jakarta Struts Cookbook

Format: Paperback
Author: Bill Siggelkow
ReleaseDate: 23 February, 2005
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Excellent book for novice and experts
It has great point solutions to common problems, which also help with the understanding of the struts framework. Great book for learning how struts works in the real world. And nice, easy to read flow, with complete examples. The best thing about a cookbook is that you don't have to go in any sequence through all the chapters, you can find the problem in the content and jump right to it.

I would recommend buying a struts reference book in addition to this, and when you do that make sure it covers the latest version of struts.

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Great Book even for a newbie!
Without this book I would have been totally lost and probebly very frustrated. I am a Struts newbie and have been working with Struts for only two weeks yet the Jakarta Struts Cookbook helped me build a Wizard-Style page Flow application (pages 199 to 203 in the book). One thing I really liked is that the author chose to use the LookupDispatchAction rather than having an Action for each step in a wizard-style application.

As I look through the book I can see there are very insightful and intuitive recipe's for dealing with future projects like pages 90 to 95 on how to Handle Date Input Fields.

Even if you are a Struts newbie this book will help you figure out how to do specific advanced tasks. If you are looking for quick information to add to your projects then this book is a great buy.

Good Struts meal cooked by Bill Siggelkow
Topics varied from introductory topics like (installation , Configuration , User Interface) to Advanced topics like (Lazy Dynamic Forms,Exception handling , Security , Tiles). This books has a very strong collection of common and day to day programming problems with struts.
Every Chapter in this book provide smart solutions for common problems faces the developers.
The solutions usually provide a shortcut way for solving with deep discussion for every solution.
The books has about over 130 problems. Each problem has a smart solution with clear and deep discussion.
I think this is the most effective way to transport working experience.
I'm 2 years struts developer.
Personally I enjoyed the discussion of Hibernate and Spring usage with struts. I gained new and good information about the new struts version 1. 2.
I think this book will be very useful for any struts developer who wants to absorb the others experiences for old faced problems or new ones.