Re: Wanted a Good Struts Book

[Robert S. Sfeir]

hands down Programming Jakarta Struts is the best book out there right now. Covers the latest version. What I like about it most is that it goes into the best way of extracting the model/view before it even discusses using it with Struts. So you end up with examples that are Struts independent which you then implement with Struts. This gives you the ability to go to a different framework (not sure why you'd want to do that), or reuse your code for a different approach to your app.

R
On Wednesday, January 8, 2003, at 02:19 PM, Ron Day wrote:

No-one seems to mention "Struts Kick Start" from Sams Publishing.

For a good practical book with lots of examples,
and a great section on the Struts tagLibs, its hard to beat.

I have it on my shelf next to Chuck and Ted's books.

I agree that there are omissions and errors in Mastering Jakarta Struts.
In their hurry to get it out "first" the publishers did not do a thorough
job on QC or Peer reviews. The section on taglibs is far inferior to the one
in the "Kick Start"

FYI, The Tomcat Kick Start book is also excellent. I am really liking that
whole series....

Ron

-----Original Message-----
From: Vincent Stoessel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 12:48 PM
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Subject: Re: Wanted a Good Struts Book


mech wrote:

Avoid "Mastering Jakarta Struts". It was on sale at Amazon, so I took it
(at that time all newer (more) up-to-date books weren't available yet).
Actually for a simple application it's okay, but I got the impression
that it's not really "complete". It's somewhere stuck in between Struts
1.0 and 1.1. I guess it's fine, if you don't mind to read the Struts
docu whenever you exceed the scope of the book.
And the taglibs, only mentioned in the appendix... Well just written
down what you could find in the documentation. Hardly any examples for
tag usage (except those cases you could figure out yourself because
obvious)

I would disagree on that point. All the taglibs have
1. a definition of every attribute.
2. working example of the tag.
3. example of what the rendered html result will look like.

There may be errors as mech said, but I have not run across one yet.
I have Chuck and ted's books as well. Weighing in as the thinnist book
of the bunch , I still use it as a tag reference. Having said that I
love ted's book a lot, it is stuffed with a lot of excellent
information.A lot of question that are asked frequently on this list
are answered in this book. Chuck's book I have not had a chance to
really evaluate it fully but I liked what I have seen so far.
--
Vincent Stoessel
Linux Systems Developer
vincent xaymaca.com


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