Practical Apache Struts2 Web 2.0 Projects (Practical Projects) [Paperback]

Ian Roughley (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1590599039 | ISBN-13: 978-1590599037 | Publication Date: November 19, 2007 | Edition: 1

Practical Apache Struts 2 Web 2.0 Projects will be one of the first books to cover the agile, lightweight open source Apache Struts 2 Web Framework, an essentially new and improved Struts platform that should meet today’s more agile Java development needs.

Apache Struts remains the most popular framework for building Java-driven web sites, despite continued challenges from competitive frameworks and APIs like JavaServer Faces (JSF), Wicket, Grails, and more. The new features incorporated into Struts 2 will help this powerful framework to maintain its #1 position for the foreseeable future.

Additionally, this book will be the only one with a practical, Web 2.0 projects-oriented approach, most useful to today’s more common integrated Java Web application stack development covering both the Web and Presentation-tiers.

This book was written by Ian Roughley, a professional Struts developer and expert, who is one of the earliest adopters of Struts 2 in his everyday practice.

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About the Author

Ian Roughley is an Apache Struts 2 user and developer, and has been developing Java Web applications for years using Struts Web technology.

Product Details

• Paperback: 360 pages
• Publisher: Apress; 1 edition (November 19, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1590599039
• ISBN-13: 978-1590599037
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #653,938 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Much better than expected..., January 25, 2008

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Eric D. Nielsen (Watertown, MA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Practical Apache Struts2 Web 2.0 Projects (Practical Projects) (Paperback)

I was extremely disappointed in the authors other struts 2 book; and was planning to avoid this one, but all the other stuts 2 books kept slipping their date, so I picked this one up on a whim.

I'm rather surprised by the negative reviews people are giving it, as I found it a very useful book. Yes the title is a little hokey and the content only pays lip-service to Web 2.0 aspects. I have been working on my own personal projects in Struts 2 for a few months so I wasn't a complete novice coming into the book, and I lurk on both the users and developer mailing lists. I felt the material was well laid out and followed a natural progression. The book doesn't really cover MVC theory nor how it applies to any of the "Action" frameworks, so its not really a book for people with no prior experience in those areas.

The other limitation I found was the book just ends. There was no real wrap up or conclusion. Basically he finishes developing the last use case of this sample application and on the facing page is the index. To me this was the only place that felt rushed.

The book doesn't cover a fair bit of the annotation based configuration opposed to XML and a few of the more established plugins however that are a few places where it might not be "future-proof" given the works that's going on now merging/combining several of the convention-over-configuration plugins into a single unified one for struts 2.1

17 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Definitively, not a good book, December 26, 2007

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Raul Luna Rodriguez (Valladolid, Spain) - See all my reviews
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I am starting to program in struts, and definitively this is not the book I was looking for. First, it talks about Ruby on Rails so good that I'm thinking if I should move to that instead keeping studying Struts. Second, the first example have soooo many assumptions that it is impossible fo follow. Thrid, the rest of the book appear to be complex as if you already were a master of struts 1.

I discourage this book.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars sprinkling of useful information, January 20, 2008

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Matthew B. Payne "matt_p11" (Willow Grove, PA United States) - See all my reviews
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Like others said its not for beginners. However, that doesn't make it a bad book. If you are looking for guide for going to struts 1 to 2, this book is not it. With that said, if you are a webwork developer or already have a handle on the Struts 2 basics this book does provide some nice samples. It provides a nice sampling of how to integrate with some of the plugins that have been added over the last year. (zero config, wild cards in configuration, gwt, hibernate, spring, security). You may already be an accomplished struts 2 development however, their may be some things to take away from this to add to one's cookbook.