On Tuesday, November 19th, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, > > here is a list of struts books available, without being > biased, can anyone tell me which books will be worth buying, > and why? I'm not new to struts, although i haven't been using > it for a year or so. I need to have a decent book to bring me > up to date with the latest struts goodies. Also, preferably > with some advanced struts stuff.
Just to echo what others have said, you probably need to buy more than one to get the full picture. For example, Kevin and I wrote "Struts Kick Start" to very much be a "get going with Struts fast" type of book. Toward that end, we explictly don't get into things like replacing the command processor, since we felt that that kind of "under the hood" information can distract from learning the tool initially. So clearly Ted or Chuck will probably do a better job of explaining the implementation details. On the other hand, we try to remain grounded in application development, so we probably spend more time showing how to use Struts in live example applications, and how to integrate it into web services and EJB implementations. Also, because Struts is changing as we speak, the later a book came out (assuming relatively equal production times), the more up to date it might be. (Note that since our book is coming out last, this can rightly be construed as being handed lemons and making lemondade...) In any event, the best solution (as always) is to sit down with a couple of them in the B&N caf� and see which one fits your style. There probably isn't one "best book" for everyone. James -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
