Beginning Apache Struts: From Novice to Professional (Beginning: from Novice to Professional) [Paperback]

Arnold Doray (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 24, 2006 | Series: Beginning: from Novice to Professional

Beginning Apache Struts will provide you a working knowledge of Apache Struts 1.2. This book is ideal for you Java programmers who have some JSP familiarity, but little or no prior experience with Servlet technology.

Organized in a condensed tutorial and lab format, the material in this book has been tested in real classroom environments. It takes a step-by-step, hands-on approach to teaching you Struts. The book even previews the next generation of Struts, the Apache Shale. The overall result is that you can quickly apply Struts to your work settings with confidence.

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About the Author

Arnold Doray is Thinksquared's lead software architect and has been developing software professionally for over a decade. He has conducted several developer training courses in the U.K. and Singapore. Arnold holds a bachelor's degree in physics and a master's degree in knowledge engineering.

Product Details

• Paperback: 536 pages
• Publisher: Apress; 1 edition (February 24, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1590596048
• ISBN-13: 978-1590596043
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.1 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #855,832 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars detailed explanation of Struts; with caveats, April 24, 2006

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This review is from: Beginning Apache Struts: From Novice to Professional (Beginning: from Novice to Professional) (Paperback)

Doray gives you a good and very detailed explanation about programming in Apache Struts. He points out upfront that Struts sits roughly midway in functionality between PHP and Ajax, where in going from PHP to Ajax, we are moving in the direction of increasing desktop functionality. This will be useful to some readers, in helping to determine if Struts is a suitable choice for your project.

Plus, the book shows how the powerful Model-View-Controller division of functionality can be done in Struts. If you have never used MVC before, in any context, then learning it here is inherently useful, irrespective of Struts. Also, MVC is an example of a design pattern; perhaps one of the most important. The concept of an abstract design pattern is also of vital importance to a programmer.

There are some minor issues with the text. Another reviewer pointed out that Chapter 2 refers to "WebLogic from IBM". Opps! More seriously, Chapter 4 refers repeatedly to loading code from a CD-ROM. What CD-ROM is this? Did I miss its definition earlier in the book? Or was there a definition?

Another limitation is the restriction to Java 1.4. Increasingly awkward as time goes on, if not right now, because Java 1.5 has been out for over a year. We can expect more Java programmers to migrate to 1.5, and new programmers to start at 1.5. (Or subsequent versions.) One immediate consequence of the restriction to 1.4 is given in Chapter 2, where it advises you to install Tomcat. But you should not use any version higher than 5.0.x, because those use Java 1.5. This ceiling on Tomcat is not desirable either, as new versions of this often come out, and Tomcat has been at 5.5 for some time.

Java 1.5 is essentially a superset of 1.4. It is unclear why the text restricts itself to 1.4. That should be explained in more detail. Better yet would be to remove the restriction.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It is a good book, February 26, 2007

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This review is from: Beginning Apache Struts: From Novice to Professional (Beginning: from Novice to Professional) (Paperback)

I already have used Struts 2 years ago. Now i swithced to RAILS (eeeeeeasy), but a week ago a client has a request for a Struts app: well, i decided it was time to increase my knowledge over this popular framework. I've started to look for something fast-readable that allow me to skip the info i alredy know and that strikes me in the face with pro techniques i never used.
I've found two books very interesting: one is The Struts Survival Guide (not for beginner but full of interesting patterns) and the other is this one.
While this book is not a PRO book, it lets you discover its contents with absolutely no effort: when i looked for a topic i don't know (or remember) i found the info i'm looking for and immediatly i'm able to test it in my application.
I strongly recomand this book, well... i give it 5 stars only to raise the avarage rating (1 star rating is nonsense to me...), maybe the right rating is 4...

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars good book for struts, February 11, 2011

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Mouro (JERSEY CITY, NJ, US) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Beginning Apache Struts: From Novice to Professional (Beginning: from Novice to Professional) (Paperback)

I am very surprised about the bad reviews and low rating this book has, I really like the content of this book and the way it introduces each topic. Sure that there are some typo errors but you can get the correction from the book's site, i don,t see how anybody can give this book one or two stars.