Struts: The Complete Reference, 2nd Edition 2nd Edition

I primarily bought this book for 2 reasons. One, after having seen other good reviews on this site about this book and two, to get to know more about the tag libraries used in Struts applications. Unfortunately, what i find is that this book has succeeded in putting the long "not so user-friendly" tag library documentation available elsewhere, and that run endless down browser windows into a book form. In my opinion, Struts as a technology centered around MVC is not so very difficult for a seasoned Software Developer to understand. What this book fails to explain is the usefulness of tag libraries in building the " CODE-FREE VIEW" component of a Struts-based application using tag libraries. Once i got into the chapters about tag-libraries, the pulse with which the book takes off with, begins to die twice as fast. The author(s) make(s) (a) very feeble effort in linking "variable scopes in JSP" and their connection to tag libraries. Now, i 've kept this book aside just to serve as a reference to a tag and/or its properties. In a nutshell, it's back to building traditional JSP views for me.

I highly recommend this book, and will buy this authors Struts 2 book when it comes out.After having completed some introductory Java programming work, I decided to dive into struts as I wanted to implement the MVC pattern in Java. This book helped me to achieve that without further referencing other material.Everything I needed was in this book. The first couple of chapters outline the Struts framework using a basic (but not Hello World) example followed by an elaboration of the Model, View and Controller. The rest of the book simply builds on this example to demonstrate features. I only read the first few chapters and used the rest as a reference (I don't need Tiles for example).The book is sparse in some ways, but it is all there. I had some tricky problems I wanted to solve and all the required information was in this book - although I did need to meditate on some of the examples to figure things out. Having said that some previous experience with JSP is useful.Recommended, looking forward to October 24.

If you're still developing struts applications, stop. If you're maintaining them, stick to the documentation. This book was probably useful at one point but the struts console site is gone. So are many of the links and references, as struts has more or less vanished.

I have not read it all yet, butit is what I was looking for when it comes to learning Java-strut.

I was very disappointed in this book, and will probably not buy another from this publisher (McGraw Hill/Osborne). This volume contains no expository material of any value. Most of the technical content consists of trivial examples of Struts usage. The author provides very little insight into effective use of Struts.BTW, Herb Schildt is the editor, ant that would have been enough to keep me from ordering this book.

You won't be disappointed. Lot of details. That's very important!Very clear. Many examples and explanations.Requires background because it's not a basic book.

Great book, great seller

I was referred to this book when I first started working on Stuts. It's a great primer and reference.

I bought this book having decided to use Struts as the development framework for a project and have been pretty disappointed. Although it is good enough introductory book on Struts it isn't much of a reference manual and is far from "complete." It misses some pretty basic information (the scope of form beans for example is never really explained, and "The Struts Tag Libraries" part lacks some critical information, such as the various rules for parameters used in each tag). Many of the examples are way too simplistic - there isn't any discussion on database connectivity either with JDBC or with a persistence framework, and so on. Read it as a leg up but be prepared for the fact that you will out grow it pretty quickly - I rarely refer to my copy and I only bought it a month ago...

Das Buch mag zwar ein Nachschlagewerk für Struts sein, das bekomme ich aber billiger auf der Struts Homepage. Die Beispiele sind absolut primitiv und - genauso wie die Attribut-Tabellen - überwiegend durch Copy & Paste entstanden.Was fehlt sind sinnige Beispiele, die vor allem auch die Verbindungen zwischen den Struts-Tags und den FormBeans beschreiben (z.B. was muss ich in der FormBean treiben, damit ich die Werte einer Multibox bekomme - ohne mich endlos durch Entwickler-Foren zu googlen um solche Details herauszufinden). Genau darauf basiert ja Struts und genau darin bestünde der Mehrwert eines Buches.Das Layout ist auch alles andere als augenfällig, man erkennt Hauptüberschriften erst auf den zweiten Blick, es gibt zwar Unterschiede in den Schriftgraden, aber irgenwie wirkt das Seitenbild wie ein Einheitsbrei, der dem Auge wenig wirkliche Orientierungpunkte bietet, um schnell an die gewünschte Information zu kommen.Vom Inhalt her 2 Sterne, Aufmachung/Layout 0 Sterne

Der Autor bietet einen guten Überblick über die Materie, vor allem über die Funktionalität von Struts (inkl. einiger wichtiger/interessanter Erweiterungen wie: Validator, Security, Internationalisierung). Besonders hilfreich ist der Abschnitt mit der Struts Taglib Referenz.Leider fehlt ein bisschen der Bezug zur praktischen Anwendung: Installation und Aufbau einer Webapp wird praktisch nicht erklärt; die Konfiguration ist im Stil der Taglib Referenz aufgebaut (mit wenig Beispielen). Der Praxisbezug wird z.B. mit "Programming Jakarta Struts" von O'Reilly besser hergestellt, mit den beiden Werken ausgestattet ist man für Struts bestens gerüstet.P.S.: die Taglib Referenz von Validator ist nicht mehr ganz aktuell - ab version 1.2 haben die Methoden andere Signaturen.

This is a great book. I knew a little about struts by working with an existing implementation. This book helped me to understand what had already been done, and to move forward with new struts implementations.

It's a nice book, all are necessary info. Really a complete reference.