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Class Libraries" now sadly out of date.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
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