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Summary: Implementation details lacking
Review: This book did a great job explaining to me *what* Struts is and *why* I should use it. However, when I actually sat down to start working I found the book had left me with little idea of *how* to use Struts. I'm going to take a look at Struts In Action by Ted Husted instead.
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Summary: Solid Effort... A must Have for Struts developers....
Review: I have just about all the Struts books. I reach for this book quite a bit. It is a great reference book. It is well written and well organized.If you are doing serious Struts development, you should probably have both "Struts in Action" (Manning) and this book. I reach for the Manning book the most. It seems to have the most information. I reach for this book second. This book seems to be better organized than the "Struts in Action" book. None of the Struts books do a good job of Tile coverage. And there is no exception here, the Tile coverage is weak. The validator coverage is good. Chuck takes it up a level and covers things related to Struts development like performance, and logging. I've always thought "Mastering Struts" by Wiley was the most-readable tutorial-like and most suitable for novices. If you are getting started with Struts, start with Mastering Struts.
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Summary: Poorly organized book
Review: The book is poorly organized. It gives very complex struts examples from the very start. It also gives a great deal of explanation and examples on JSP and servlets but not struts application. So if anyone wants a good introductory book on struts pick another one.
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Summary: A Good and Decent Book
Review: It will get you rolling with Struts. The introductory, theoretical discussions in each chapter are excellent. And most chapters offer, by way of example, thorough applications of the theory. However, a few chapters, like the Tiles chapter, bog down in an encyclopedic listing of tags and attributes that offers no insight into their application.
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Summary: not all the wat
Review: If you are new to Struts or if you just want to get couple of examples to get starting this is not a book for you. However, if you want to really get in to how struts is built and how each part works this is the best book on the subject.
The only thing is that it explains each part but doesn't give you a simple step by step to get started.
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Summary: Great book to help you learn struts
Review: I'll start off by saying that I have limited experience with Java or JSP. I have done some programming in Java and JSP but I have not delved into any of the more advanced features or into some of the basic features. So I began reading this book with the hope of some clarifications to help me get by my ignorance. The author was very good at helping me understand all the other necessary concepts before delving deeply into struts. The first thing that I liked about this book was that it was easy to read and does not have too much technical jargon. When the author uses any technical words, he explains pretty clearly what the word or abbreviation means. This is invaluable to newbies like myself. I really like the first few chapters because they not only explain clearly what struts are but also gives you alternatives to struts and their advantages. The rest of the chapters go into pretty good detail in describing what struts can do and how to get them to do what you want. One thing that always makes me like a book are the "pretty pictures". This book has plenty of useful diagrams and code examples that allow you to visualize the concepts. As usual with O'Reilly books, you have their website that contains more examples, errata and other important information to help you to become more Strut adept. Overall, I liked the book. It was not confusing or vague. The author explained clearly his purpose and successfully accomplished it in the book. I may not be a struts guru right now but I certainly have the tool to help me become one.
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Summary: A good struts reference
Review: I am fairly new to J2EE and in particular Struts, but have the oppurtunity to use Struts. I had worked though some examples in another book, which was very example oriented, but was full of mistakes, so I was looking for something more of a reference that included details. This book seems to provide that detail. I found it full of useful information, particular for some of the more obscure material. Now, if you like to sit and read an entire book, you might want to skip over a few parts as you read the book, because some of reference material provided, for example overriding various of the controller features by overriding some of framework classes or maybe some of the detail about how the RequestProcessor works is possibly more than you want to know when you are first learning, but too much material is usually not a serious complaint. I found this book to be great intermediate to advanced reference book (but since I'm not an advanced struts user you can take that with a grain of salt) and will be keeping it around as I build struts systems.
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Summary: Excellent - The best Struts book Available
Review: I found this book to be the best of all of the lot. The coverage of the 1.1 topics was superb and the writing was very easy and enjoyable to read. I wasn't looking for a beginners guide, but more of an advanced coverage of the material. Not only did the book cover the topics, it actually took time to make sense of everything, even to criticize the framework where appropriate. Great coverage and the best book by far.
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Summary: to few examples
Review: I need examples to understand how things work. If you think learning is easy without examples, I recomend this book. I would burn my book if it wasn't from the library...
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Summary: very thorough coverage
Review: There are now several books on the market about Struts. The biggest strength I've found in this book is how each of the topics are explained well. Many of the other books cover a lot or show some neat examples but they don't seem to explain them in as great as detail as this author does. You really get a good understanding of what is going on based on his clear writing style. Since Struts is constantly advancing there are some things not covered in this book, but this book will definitely get you grounded in a true understanding of the concepts.
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