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Summary: Straight to the point.
Review: The best book on Struts so far. I really like this book. I bought it last week and completed my first Struts prototype today. It covered all the current Struts topics in a clear and concise manner, without the unnecessary fluff I often see. Thanks Mr. Goodwill.
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Summary: Good to get you started
Review: The book is clearly written. Not much API discussion, but it walks you through a simple stock price lookup example. Most chapters build on this theme - adding errors, database and so on.After about a week, you'll be ready for the next book. But at least you will be able to get a struts database application going.
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Summary: Need Info. for LINUX and Unix
Review: The book should include the materials for Linux and Unix platform.
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Summary: Struts for Beginner
Review: The good thing about this book is it does make it easier and simple to understand Struts. Due to its simplicity, I think the title should be changed to "Beginning Struts" instead of "Mastering". The bad thing about this book is it has lots and lots of repetition of codes, as similar codes printed again and again, and the last four chapters that acts as reference for the tag libraries have lots of attributes with the same explainations repeated again and again. Gee..Thus I said it's good for beginner as u'll never get lost. As you flipped over the pages, you'll feel like hey..I've read something similar to this..well, coz it's repeated dude.
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Summary: Not worth the money
Review: This book does not provide anything that you could not find on the internet. I though this book will give me inside to some information that is not publicly available however it does not. As an introduction it is OK.
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Summary: excellent
Review: this book is excellent when it comes to teaching struts. I finished chapter 3(building your first web app using struts) in no time. Make sure you're familiar on how to setup Tomcat etc before proceeding since the book assumes you have these knowledges. In short, you should familiarize yourself with Servlets and JSPs before implementing struts.
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Summary: Great Beginner book
Review: This book is great for someone that is new to Jakarta Struts. I enjoyed how it took the time to explain the taglibs, although there is a mistake in the <bean:write> tag that cost me a few hours. All in all a good beginner's book, but if you want to go further and deeper, I'd go for Struts in Action to really get into the back end.
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Summary: Great Beginner book
Review: This book is great for someone that is new to Jakarta Struts. I enjoyed how it took the time to explain the taglibs, although there is a mistake in the tag that cost me a few hours.All in all a good beginner's book, but if you want to go further and deeper, I'd go for Struts in Action to really get into the back end.
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Summary: Wouldn't pass for a "Learn in 24 Hours..." book
Review: This book is in a word, awful. In attempting to learn, let alone master, the use of Struts this book is as useful as a paperweight. While I am an experienced J2EE developer I do not know the ins and outs of Struts. Unfortunately I made the choice to this book to correct that shortcoming. The technical errors in this book, in the text and the examples, cost me hours of time on a personal project. I eventually had to use the Struts documentation to figure out where the problems were. That isn't a bad thing, it is a sad statement on the book. But it wasn't all bad - the page numbers match the table of contents. At least the bottom of the barrell for Struts books has been reached and can only improve from here. Save your money and look for another source of Struts information.
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Summary: Too much cut and paste - other Struts books are better.
Review: This book was a big disappointment. I purchased this book in hopes of supplementing the information found on Apache's Jakarta Struts page. I shouldn't have bothered. Much of the information in the book is either wrong or poorly written. Many times the author will spend two paragraphs describing a concept or class, then say in the next paragraph, "Now that you have seen what X can do and understand how to use it, let's see how we can ...." Unfortunately, the two paragraphs haven't explained the concept, nor shown us what it can do, or described even how it fits with the rest of the framework. The writing was even worse in some parts. Some sections were cut-and-paste text, and blatantly incorrect. A coworker of mine independently came to the same conclusion about this book and returned his copy. I only wish I had done the same. I suggest Programming Jakarta Struts or Struts in Action. Both of those books are far superior to this one. Use Apache's website for many good resources - you'll save the cost of this book if you start there first.
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