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Summary: best in it's class
Review: Easy to read, clearly laid out and good for reference or an introductory text.That's all I really look for in a technical book --b
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Summary: Good & Worthful book
Review: Hi this is the best book for struts.the author tries to explain all topics in easy way so that a beginer to struts can understand.good chapters on tag libraries.
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Summary: Good for beginners, great for day-to-day
Review: I found this book to be a good introduction to the Struts framework and now use it as a day-to-day reference. I also found the book to have more coverage of areas of Struts that some of the other books didn't have, like a chapter on testing and security.
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Summary: Excellent Book
Review: I knew little of Struts before buying this book, and I had to program Struts with an already started application in struts, I needed to understand many things a previous (and very proficient in struts) programmer had done, I didn't understand many things and most books I found didn't clear my doubts.
This book covered EVERY single doubt I had, I was amazed of how practical it was for me to use
I RECOMEND IT!
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Summary: top notch - hands down the best struts book
Review: I reviewed several Struts book before choosing this one. there are several books to pick from and hands down this book has the most up to date coverage. most of the other books only cover struts 1.0 with some of coverage of 1.1. this book has a clearer tutorial teaching style and many others jump around too much. this book is also a great reference. I often have to ask the members of my team to give me the book back since they always use it for looking stuff up.
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Summary: solid tutorial, excellent reference
Review: If you're just getting started with Struts (like I was) this book has a very solid tutorial. I have also found the reference sections invaluable in day to day coding. Thanks for the Struts Console to James.
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Summary: Not Worth It -- In Spades
Review: Just got this, and it's basically a reprint of the pages you'll find on the Jakarta Struts/Tiles websites. For $50 you'd be doing better to just dump the webpages to the printer yourself.
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Summary: Good Introduction
Review: The book is a good beginners intro to the subject. After reading the first few chapters, you will be equipped and itching to move on to one of the more detailed text that aren't as friendly - like Struts in Action - that will give you the skills to actually build something useful.
You should also spend a little time getting a grounding in custom tags before you get involved with trying to learn Struts -you will get much better insight into what is going on behind the scenes - because that's essentially what the Struts framework is really all about.
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Summary: Lacks Depth, Found Printing Mistakes
Review: The book starts with good introduction to Struts basics but lacks depth and explanation. In addition to that I found some printing mistakes in some of the examples in LookupDispathAction and MappingDispatchAction classes. I saw such mistakes somewhere else also in the book. The Tiles chapter does not cover some of the basic things, which someone new to Tiles should know.
Overall I do not think I would recommend this book for struts. I liked the book Struts in Action: Building Web Applications with the Leading Java Framework by Ted Husted and Struts authors, which covers the nitty gritties on every struts topic and is more thorough.
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Summary: for beginners only
Review: this book covers the basics of struts, the validator package, and tiles. However, once you learn the basic concepts of struts, the single mini hr example (ie, "hello world") is not enough for you to be able to write a real world app. You need to go somewhere else. This book is for beginners only. For 50$, I think you're money would be better spent on other books.
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