I'm sure there is going to be some overlap, but I really think that because we (Ted, James Goodwill, James Turner and Kevin Bedell, Sue and myself) all come from a slighly different background and have different experiences, the various Struts soon available will complement each other nicely.
Chuck > The Introduction was one of the trickier parts of the book for us. The > publisher kept saying the original first chapter wasn't the beginning. > We were starting with Struts, but they wanted to start sooner than that. > They also wanted a hands-on Struts example in the first chapter. I had > no idea how to do all that in a single first chapter. Then George > Franciscus came to the rescue with a very tightly written introductory > chapter. It covers the basics of the underlying technologies and then > leaps right into a working Struts application! > > The "trick" George came up for the example was to include the prebuilt > classes in the download. That way, we didn't have to get into the build > issues before showing people what it is "like" to develop in Struts. > > In fact, the new "Enabling Technologies" section of the Struts User > guide grew out of the work we did with our own chapter 1. Of course, > ours has more text than hyperlinks (but that's what you have to do in > print). > > We'll be posting the Tiles and Validator chapters as our book examples > Real Soon Now. Of course, Cedric and David drafted those. We decided to > post these two since Tiles and Validator and the least documented parts > of the framework right now. As example chapters, we will be able to keep > them up indefinitely. > > -Ted. > > > Galbreath, Mark wrote: > > > Just got James' "Mastering Jakarta Struts" (Wiley 2002) last night from > > Amazon. Scanning through it, the layout and coverage looks very > good. If I > > have one criticism at this time, it's that anyone wanting to "master > Jakarta > > Struts" already knows about web applications and servlet containers. > There > > was no need to spend the first 60 pages of the book on those subjects > > (especially the Tomcat-specific stuff). > > > > Chuck and Ted: yours are preordered. ;-) > > > > Mark > > > > > > -- > Ted Husted, Husted dot Com, Fairport NY US > co-author, Java Web Development with Struts > Order it today: > <http://husted.com/struts/book.html> > > > > -- > 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]>
