After seeing some of the reviews for this book, I'm very glad that they copied my credit card number down wrong. I don't have the book, and I'm sure I can find another way to spend the money.
Nathan Anderson -----Original Message----- From: Andy Noble [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2002 2:01 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Struts Fast Track (my 2 pennies worth) Having finally received my copy, which was labelled 'beta edition' (??!) I've come to some very quick conclusions. I've been using Struts for about 6 months now, together with Struts Validation, Struts Layout, Struts Menu, Declarative Exceptions, Struts Security, PostgreSQL, Poolman, log4j, junit, ORO, javascript, CVS, Tomcat, Forte (netbeans) and I had a go with Tiles but decided i didn't want to use it and more recently looked at the Display taglib. With all this stuff spinning around in my head (plus my regular Oracle Apps & DB stuff I do for a living) I was hoping for a book that takes you step by step through each portion of Struts, with detailed worked examples, along with tips and tricks; this would help me quickly 'relearn' so I didn't have to rely too heavily on my memory. I was disappointed because this is *definitely not* what this book is about. It is based around 'lab' work and you are expected to figure the detail out on your own. This is fine for beginners, but I've spent the last 6 months doing just that without this book. The layout and lack of detailed content makes this book look ideal for an instructor lead course, but not really self teaching and *not* reference. There are 27 chapters in about 250 pages (thats less than 10 pages per chapter on average), and in that there are quite a few blank pages, full page screen shots and very large margins on the A5 paper it is printed on. My conclusion is that the documentation that comes with Struts and all its add ons is probably the best source of information to date. Waste of money? Not totally, but at $70 + $20 P&P to UK not value for money. Maybe it should be a $30 PDF download... that would be better I think, as $90 hurts! Andy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert D. Morse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 4:48 PM Subject: RE: Vik's book on Struts (basebeans book) > Don't waste your money. Get "Professional JSP Site Design" ISBN: > 1861005512 > > It is *significantly* better. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Galbreath [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 7:29 AM > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: Re: Vik's book on Struts (basebeans book) > > > $60 is quite a piece of change to pay for a book that's already outdated!! > > Mark > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
