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Summary: This is a Special Book
Review: It does not matter if you are interested in Struts. This book is written with a view to the ideas behind Struts and in any MVC architecture for a web framework. This is a tour de force in knowledge of the area, punctuated by the succinct sizzle of a man that knows how to communicate. Ted Husted is a writer among writers in this area.
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Summary: Not just a struts book, a web application architecture book!
Review: That's what I love the most about this book, it doesn't just talk about how to configure and develop with Struts. It's a web application manifesto. Anyone can write a book about how to use Struts to build a web application. That's not the point. This book is ~8 people-years worth of first-hend developer knowledge (4 authors x ~2 years of working on the Struts project) condensed down into 630 pages. It doesn't just teach you how to use Struts (and Velocity and Taglibs and Tiles), but why you should use them. That's the most important thing this book has to offer. If your project is looking at using Struts & other Jakarta technologies, you need this book. If your project is currently using Struts & other Jakarta technologies, you need this book
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Summary: Could have been
Review: A book from the author of Struts, can you possibly go wrong? This book shows you can. The book does not have a flow to it, to me it seems just scattered topics piled on eachother. And then, the grand finale, where all you have "learned" is applied in a real world type of thing... By the time it got there, I got so annoyed I did not care anymore. The examples rely on so much non-standard struts stuff, I have trouble with the title even.
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Summary: Great book
Review: I got this book when it first came out in 2002 and find myself referring back to it repeatedly. This book gave me a fantastic foundation in Struts and enabled me to build enterprise-class Struts applications shortly after reading it. Highly recommended.
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Summary: struts inaction
Review: I thought this book would offer professional expertise on how to strut. As near as I can tell this book does not deliver. Instead the author sidetracks for pretty much the whole of the book on this technical, computer-language based metaphor that I just could not understand. I recommend instead 'How to Have Confidence and Power in Dealing With People' by Les Giblin. This book really teaches you how to get your game on in simple, direct language.
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Summary: WOW... Best complete Introduction to the Framework i found !
Review: This book is my personal best choice in getting up to speed with the struts freamework. i have started to read through nearly all the books on the market and found that this one provides just enough but also complete information about the architecture and concept about the struts framework, as well as good examples, whereas other one are too much on either end : too short (with the feeling and the practical experience somethings missing) or to wide and screwed up in detail-nightmares where nobody will ever awake anymore.
one thing to mention is that you should have at least a basic understanding or pratical experience with the java server suite (servlets, jsp).
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Summary: Too complex
Review: I need to learn struts asap... this book while being highly recomended by professionals who have previous experience with struts, is of no use for the begginer. it takes you into a great deal of details while not giving you a quick example for you to start coding... jakarta struts for dummies was the most helpful to me. it had small segments of code and line by line explanation.
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Summary: Ordinary Stuff!
Review: Not impressed with the Authors' writing style, at points it really puts you off. Not very good use of wordings/language. You feel it a lot especially when you are an active reader and read good material from good sources.
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Summary: Could have been
Review: This book is definitely not worth my time. When I picked up this book, I didn't know anything about Struts. I thought 'Struts in Action' was going to get me up to speed very fast. In the first chapter, after the Struts framework has been set up, we download a starter application only to find that it does not work. In the second chapter, the book just rambles on about Struts architecture. The third chapter gives an example which i found useful..but then the code is all in snippets and not in one place. The three chapters that I read were dull and boring and I had to push myself to get that far. I didn't think it was necessary to read the fourth chapter. I am all set to go and return this book and get my money back.
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Summary: Struts in Fiction...
Review: A lot of pieces of code extracted from context..and without real working examples ..it should have title
Struts - The Best practises ,for some one who handled the base. I think title "Struts in Action" is misleading...I thought there will be base example introduced on the beginning and continually extended in every chapter by the theory to the end . There is only one example on the beginning and one the end ... complex... At the present there is so many products on the market what we(as developers) have to study that fast learning curve is essential.
I have read a lot of books about EJB last time...and may be I was lucky that I got good books<BR...excelent combinantion
and I was immediately able to write EJB and run the code on JBOSS and WEBlogic what are more complex as the Struts I think... as well Head First EJB from Kathy Sierra and Bates was excelent from pedagogical point of view ...for certification as well Rod Johnson J2EE Design and Development... It is not easy to write a good book.One think is be perfect software architect and another good teacher...
It could be improved if autor in the next edition
will add more pictures with workflow -arrows with sequence numbers and working code in Example.war s for every chapter.
I wouldn't call it "being spoon fed " but "time saving" and time is money....
This way he can make really valuable book.
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