Professional Jakarta Struts

I see loads of developers complaining about coding practices, OS installation details, etc. - but the bottom line is this - If you want to learn Struts and you have a good JSP background to begin with, this book will get you up to speed quickly and prepare you for a Struts project. From a developers perspective, that is really the most important thing. It delivers on explaining complex things simply, clearly and with a very good flow of information. You can learn Struts from this one book.

I bought other books that let me down on learning Struts. But I found this little gem (perfect for other writers to follow this learning method) and I finally understand and learn, -yes learn-, Struts. Other books like Kick Start Struts are very bad designed for "more dummies" and they obscure things adding other frameworks like Torque!? Thanks Guys!

I have five Struts books and this is the best by far. There is NO fluff in it. It has THE BEST appendices of any Struts book, showing the tag library calls. (It makes a great reference book.) The examples are clean and get right to the point. I liked the style where they show one way to achieve a goal, explain how it can be done better, then show a better way, etc., refining the example as they go. I also liked the short, to-the-point chapters on using Struts with Eclipse, databases, Tiles, etc. This is the only book I've read that made it clear how to use Tiles. There are two down-sides to this book. First, it has an poor index, which is normally the kiss of death on a technical book. Secondly, the example code that is on the web-site is a mess! Those are the reasons I gave this a 4-star instead of a 5-star rating. (Some of the code may be out of date, too, but I have given up expecting a printed book to be current with programming API's that seem to change daily.) On top of all that, the price is right!

Title: Professional Jakarta StrutsEdition: 1st Edition(?)Author: James Goodwill and Richard HightowerCity: Indianapolis, IN 46256Publisher: Wrox Publishers, John Wiley and SonsPublished Date: Winter 2003/2004.5=Well done! This book will be a valuable teaching and reference tool.4=I would recommend this book to someone interested in its topic. 5=A complete reference. I would not need any additional reference on this topic.Write a minimum of three paragraphs describing the different aspects of this book. This is an excellent book on Jakarta Struts. Wrox publishers and the authors had done an excellent job in explaining the concepts of Jakarata struts. the book begins with servlet containers, jsps (upto 2 chapters) and how the struts fitsinto the scheme of things.the book goes into different aspects of the struts, the MVC, and the controller concepts. there are a lot of examples to explain the concepts for people of various expertise and background.the book also shows how to debug in 2 different environments such as eclipse and Jidea. the authors have shown how to create a new application from scratch in the last chapterand that is an excellent way to implement a Jakarta struts application.this book is a great reference book.

When I first started with struts, I read several pieces on the subject, but none of it "jelled" for me...that is up until I read this book.You will need additional reference material after you get into serious development - but, as a "Hello World", this book is great.