Two books I know of are pretty good...
"Struts Survival Guide" http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0974848808/qid=1096432379/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-6689712-8125649?v=glance&s=books
and
"Programming Jakarta Struts" http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0596003285/qid=1096432414/sr=ka-1/ref=pd_ka_1/002-6689712-8125649
The second goes into a lot more detail and is overall a better book (O'Reilly books generally are very good), but the first might be the better choice for you... I know the description talks about best practices and such, but it actually starts out assuming you know basically nothing about Struts and, frankly, doesn't go too much into best practices per se. I very much recommend it, most especially for someone new to Struts.
Langdon Stevenson wrote:
Hi
I am in a pretty similar position to you in that I am now to Struts (also new to Java).
I downloaded the Jakata Struts Live PDF document and worked through the tutorials there in.
See: http://www.theserverside.com/books/sourcebeat/JakartaStrutsLive/index.tss
Others in my team have the books and find them of little value.
I know what you are saying, Langdon, but warn you that a lot of those solutions on the Googling are really poor solutions. I am sure you know that already.
Michael McGrady
Hi Michael
I dare say that you are right about that. At the moment though my knowledge on Struts/Tomcat/Java is very limited, so getting something that works at all is my first priority. Once I have a working solution I can step back and look at performance issues, scalability etc, filling in the gaps in my newly acquired knowledge.
The other area that Google really helps me in is trouble shooting. If I get error XYZ I just run a search in Google and I have never failed to find a solution that says something along the lines of "you need to put library X on your classpath", or "only version 4.0.x/5.0.x of Tomcat will work with the IDEA Tomcat plug-in".
Regards, Langdon
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