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Summary: A correction - RTFM
Review: A quick correction to someone's review below:1. This is a Wiley book, so its no surprise you can't find the code for it at the Wrox site.
2. And the code for the Wrox book *is* available at their site. Moral: Put brain in gear before engaging mouth ...
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: After using struts to design a system, my team found that the book didn't offer any additional insights. This is a good book for someone just starting out with struts, but anyone experienced in its usage had best wait for the O'Reilly book or the Ted Husted's book. Leela
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Summary: not an appropriate title
Review: Good book for learning not for mastering though. I was in lot of confusion trying to get struts working for me, until I read this book.
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Summary: not an appropriate title
Review: Good book for learning not for mastering though. I was in lot of confusion trying to get struts working for me, until I read this book.
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Summary: Solid stuff
Review: Good solid Struts advice in this book. Much better written than the docs and more useful. I like the well rounded approach to the topic in this book..refresher on servlets/JSP, Struts framework architecture, good practical tips on error handling, etc. and a complete application to see how it fits together, and tag ref. I liked this approach a little bit better than the one Cavaness took on theserverside.com (his author bio said this will be either a Que or O'Reilly book, not sure). His first two chapters are even more basic, covering a lot of elementary Web programming concepts. Only gave it 4 stars because it doesn't cover DynaActionForms, even though they aren't strictly necessary and it does cover ActionForms. Still great stuff and written at the right level. I don't feel talked down to or lectured at. I definitely recommend this book.
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Summary: Great resource
Review: Having only the documentation that comes with Struts, I found this book to be extremely helpful. I, an experienced J2EE developer, have been haphazardly desciphering Struts parttime for the past several months. In one week I skimmed through the book, worked the entire Employee Directory example and have a new found understanding of Struts. I still have a ways to go, but this book was an efficient way to learn the basics.
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Summary: not good book ... and Acrobat eBook Rea
Review: Hello,
then I bought this book, I was advanced Struts user. I don't get many tips from this book. It is have benefit, if you start with Struts
But I bought e-Book with Acrobat eBook Reader software. This soft not tested and it crashes always, then you run. ...
I strog recommend don't buy e-version of this book.
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Summary: Not sure what others are smoking...
Review: Hey, I am not sure if the reviewers with low stars count really gave this book a chance. The book was easy to follow. The examples were simple, but who needs complicated onces when trying to learn Struts.
I dont think the title is deserving and thats where the 4 stars comes. I dont think I mastered Struts, but I did get a great knowledge on how to implement projects using Struts but I am sure not all the features of 1.1 were discussed.
In regard to the outline, I have to say that this book coverage was properly outlined where the material was increasing in complexity without getting lost. But, it was one chapter building on top of another.
There is this one chapter - Chapter 10 Debugging Struts Applications - that the author decided to show you how to run Tomcat locally and I am not sure what he was smoking then.
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Summary: Not sure what others are smoking...
Review: Hey, I am not sure if the reviewers with low stars count really gave this book a chance. The book was easy to follow. The examples were simple, but who needs complicated onces when trying to learn Struts.
I dont think the title is deserving and thats where the 4 stars comes. I dont think I mastered Struts, but I did get a great knowledge on how to implement projects using Struts but I am sure not all the features of 1.1 were discussed.
In regard to the outline, I have to say that this book coverage was properly outlined where the material was increasing in complexity without getting lost. But, it was one chapter building on top of another.
There is this one chapter - Chapter 10 Debugging Struts Applications - that the author decided to show you how to run Tomcat locally and I am not sure what he was smoking then.
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Summary: Very good for a beginnig
Review: Hi,
I recently read this book and I recommend it for a beginned that has never worked with such a framewok. This book does not cover all the Jakarta Struts topic, but to begin with it is excellent. I also recommend to download on theServerSite web site a pdf book on this framework.
Max Pellizzaro
http://www.maxpellizzaro.com
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