For those with a reasonable level of experience with servlets and web applications in general, the book by Sue Spielman is very worthwhile looking at. (Disclaimer: I was a paid technical reviewer, so I am biased, although there was no payment for the endorsement that I offered ... that was voluntary :-) The book is a straight-to-the-point, very little hand-holding explanation of Struts that has been VERY useful for me as a reference/reminder book. I do intend to purchase one more book for longer explanations on some of the topics, as a supplement to Sue's book. Most likely, this will be Chuck's.
Simon ----------------------------------------------------------------- Simon P. Chappell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Java Programming Specialist www.landsend.com Lands' End, Inc. (608) 935-4526 >-----Original Message----- >From: Daniel Jaffa [mailto:jaffad@;courtinnovation.org] >Sent: Monday, October 21, 2002 12:04 PM >To: Struts Users Mailing List >Subject: Re: Book Opinions > > >From his response on this list, i guess Ted Husted Book would be a good >choice to buy. There are 4 or 5 books being published in the >next month or >two. >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Vincent Stoessel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Monday, October 21, 2002 12:34 PM >Subject: Re: Book Opinions > > >> I highly recomend Mastering Jakarta Struts by James Goodwill. >> It breaks all the struts components and proceeds to build a >> sample application for you step by step. The last chapers deal >> with the jakarta tag libraries in detail with an example for >each tag. >> That alone made it worth it for me. >> >> Before goodwill's book came out, I had purchased JSP and Tag >libraries >> for Web Development(de Silva). It is mostly about creating >taglibs but 3 >> chapters are dedicated to Struts, but strictly the 1.0 version stuff. >> >> >> To speak the J2ee lingo used on this list (DAO/VA/Session >Facade etc) I >> highly recommend getting Core J2ee patterns (Alur,Crupi,Malks) >> >> >> For Java in general: >> >> I have Java in a Nutshell by Flanagan (3rd edition) which I >am only now >> beginning to appreciate. I also heard the Patrick Chan's Java Almanac >> is good. I really wish he make a new addition of his classic "Java >> Class Libraries" now sadly out of date. Yeah, you can get >most of this >> stuff online but there is nothing like a having a book you can leaf >> through on the train ride home. >> >> >> >> >> Nat Papovich wrote: >> >> > Hello All - >> > >> > I'm a recent addition to this list, while I begin learning >Struts. Not >> > only am I >> > beginning to learn Struts, I'm beginning to learn all things Java. >> > >> > I come from a ColdFusion/Fusebox background, but as a >"leader" in that >> > community, I have secretly wanted more structure from a framework, >> > along with >> > transitioning to a more "robust" web language. Fusebox also does an >> > incomplete, >> > kludgy job dealing with MVC, of which I am fond. >> > >> > I'm quickly getting knee-deep in many resources, and am burning >> > through my old >> > "to be read" book collection of OO programming and JSP (working on >> > Bruce Eckel's >> > Thinking in Java now). I consider myself to be well-versed >in OO, very >> > comfortable with structured programming (structured meaning >> > well-designed in >> > this case, not opposed to OO), but being a huge proponent of >ColdFusion's >> > leading framework, I recognize the importance of starting >off on the >> > right foot >> > in my J2EE adventure (and think Struts is that right foot). >> > >> > That exhaustive background was meant to help you fine >folks make book >> > recommendations for me. I have bookmarked and visit some of the >> > excellent online >> > resources for Struts and Java, but I'm the kind of guy who likes to >> > spend money, >> > have something bound, with a glossy cover, sitting on my >desk - it's >> > like a >> > security blanket to me. >> > >> > So of the apparently excellent titles either currently available or >> > soon-to-be-released, which one should I start with? Undoubtedly, I >> > will acquire >> > another, and another, but for now... ? >> > >> > Thanks, >> > NAT >> > >> > Nat Papovich >> > Senior Partner & Lead Architect >> > Fusium, Inc. >> > 503-913-1659 >> > Buy the book: http://fusium.com/go/book >> > >> > >> > -- >> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: >> > For additional commands, e-mail: >> >> >> >> -- >> Vincent Stoessel >> Linux Systems Developer >> vincent xaymaca.com >> >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: ><mailto:struts-user-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> >> For additional commands, e-mail: ><mailto:struts-user-help@;jakarta.apache.org> >> > > >-- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: ><mailto:struts-user->[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >For >additional commands, >e-mail: <mailto:struts-user-help@;jakarta.apache.org> > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:struts-user-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:struts-user-help@;jakarta.apache.org>
