You should post this on the User list, Steve, where more people will see
it.
Very much enjoyed your chapter. In fact, I'm about to go through it
again this afternoon ...
I would personally recommend that everyone at least think about
purchasing the book, since it covers a wealth of material that is
related to Struts, including Custom Tags and multi-tier design, and
other cool stuff like generating PDFs and other binary content.
Being a Wrox book, it also comes with a very flattering picture of Steve
;-) -- That's you at the end, right?
Steve wilkinson wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I would like to announce yet another example application using struts.
> I wrote a 63 page chapter in the Wrox Professional JSP 2nd Edition book
> that introduces the Jakarta Struts Framework from an architectural stand
> point and covers the construction of an e-commerce example. Note, I'm
> not asking everyone to go out an buy the book. No, I don't get
> royalties from the book. Yes, I did receive some money for the chapter,
> but it nowhere near covered the time and effort I put into the chapter.
>
> I do have the source code available for download
> (http://www.newparticles.com/struts/downloads/index.html) and I will be
> improving on the example by incorporating EJBs and a database. I'm
> working with JBoss, so that's going to be my application server of
> choice. I haven't decided on a database yet. It won't be Oracle or any
> other Microsoft product. It will most likely be open source and will
> work well with JBoss.
>
> The chapter was developed using a 1.0 nightly build back in March 2001.
> It should still run under the latest version, but I haven't tried it
> since May. I'm in the process of getting back into using the
> framework. The chapter took so much out of me I needed some time off.
>
> Known short comings in the example:
> ------------------------------------------
> 1. I have not implemented templates.
> 2. I have more scriptlet coding in my pages than needed.
> 3. I didn't use a database, but the a servlet and the Digester to load
> default data.
> 4. I've not implemented order tracking.
> 5. and many more for sure
>
> If you have any suggested improvements please email me at
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> The Main struts page at the New Particles site is:
> http://www.newparticles.com/struts/
>
> The source code is under the Downloads link:
> http://www.newparticles.com/struts/downloads/index.html
>
> There is a link to the book as listed on the Wrox web site if you are
> interested. (http://www.newparticles.com/struts/steve.html) Note, you
> can get it cheaper from places like amazon. John Zukowsi, in an article
> on IBM developer works, gave the book a 4.5 star rating out of a
> possible 5.
> (http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/j-jspbooks/index.html)
> Remember, I'm not trying to push the book. You can get all you need
> from the example without the book. I'm available for questions at
> either email address above.
>
> FYI, I'm currently using the Digester in a project at work. I would
> like to thank all those involved in updating the documentation. It is
> so much better than when I did the chapter. Rather than thank everyone
> individually, I'd like to thank everyone that participates in the
> project.
>
> Last of all, I would like to thank Craig, as I did in the
> acknowledgements of the book, for donating the framework to the Jakarta
> project.
>
> Steve
