Jakarta Struts for Dummies

Rating:
Summary: Jakarta Struts for Dummies
Review: I did not think this book was very good. The first two
chapter start out with the introduction and overall
description of Struts and do a good job, but the third
and largest chapter discusses creating a application
using Eclipse. This is by far the
most important chapter but the user gets lost in Eclipse.
There should be another way to present the information. Also
why use Eclipse? It would be better to use notepad, TextPad
or some other simple editor so the user gets the feeling

of everything that must be done to use Struts. A better
editor would be NetBeans if you can not use Notepad or
TextPad. Hence the third chapter and the most important
one is a loss. The fourth, fifth and sixth chapter talk about
Struts MVC (Model, View, Controller) structure. Anyway
I was hopping for a better book. One that I could learn
Struts from easily. If you want to learn Eclipse and Struts
then this is the book for you. If you want to learn Struts
quickly and easily look someplace else.

Rating:
Summary: A Fast Way to Get Started
Review: I like the Dummies books.

OK, so I'm not sophisticated, professional, or even very smart. But so many computer books seem to forget the first twenty pages that explain just what the hell you are trying to do. Perhaps the Dummies books take 40 pages to explain what could have been done in 20, but that's not a problem. I can read fast.

It has often happened that I first read a Dummies book and then once I'm deep into doing something with that language I need to go get a more complete Bible type book. I haven't gotten far enough into Java yet to know if this is true, but my newest task is moving a web site over to Unix (BSD), Postgre, Apache, and Java Servlets to provide server side dynamic pages; I don't have the time to read a Bible on each one of these. This book, along with some other Dummies books is getting me started a lot faster than I thought possible.

Rating:
Summary: A Fast Way to Get Started
Review: I like the Dummies books.

OK, so I'm not sophisticated, professional, or even very smart. But so many computer books seem to forget the first twenty pages that explain just what the hell you are trying to do. Perhaps the Dummies books take 40 pages to explain what could have been done in 20, but that's not a problem. I can read fast.

It has often happened that I first read a Dummies book and then once I'm deep into doing something with that language I need to go get a more complete Bible type book. I haven't gotten far enough into Java yet to know if this is true, but my newest task is moving a web site over to Unix (BSD), Postgre, Apache, and Java Servlets to provide server side dynamic pages; I don't have the time to read a Bible on each one of these. This book, along with some other Dummies books is getting me started a lot faster than I thought possible.

Rating:
Summary: Remarkably good
Review: I was surprised at how clear this book is. I was expecting less from a "for dummies" book. I had to get a struts-based web application up and running in four days flat and I bought both this book and the more highly regarded "Programming Jakarta Struts" by Chuck Cavaness (an O'Reilly book). I used both books, but relied extensively on the example applications in the "for dummies" book. When crunch time came I found myself consistently turning to the "for dummies" book.

Frankly, I thought it was a darn good book.

Rating:
Summary: Good book for learning Struts
Review: This book is the best book for struts I ever have :).
I am not JSP Programmer, I am just a (experienced) PHP Programmer who want to learn about Java Web Tech. I dont like JSP to much, that's why I choose Struts. I got problem learning Struts from other book, but this book gives me straight away lesson about how to develop 'thing' with struts.

Rating:
Summary: Excellent, Well Written and Up to Date
Review: Wow - these 2 authors do an excellent job of introducing a user to Jakarta Struts. I'd recommend a little familiarity with Java and web-apps. Also, you'll need to have the latest version of J2SE - 1.4 or higher (otherwise code won't compile correctly - at least that was my experience).

All the source code is available online.

This book covers Struts version 1.1. Some books only cover Struts 1.0 - be sure to check. Struts 1.1 has many new features - you'll want the latest.

Another bonus - they introduce working with Eclipse as the IDE, and detail how to do so. Eclipse is a powerful alternative to JBuilder, and free.

I'm fairly new to Java (more experience with .NET) and found this book very well written. I highly recommend it.