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Strut your stuff with this completely up-to-date guide
Struts guru James Holmes has completely revised and updated his definitive, bestselling Struts volume. You will get soup-to-nuts coverage of Struts 1.3, the latest version of the framework used to create flexible, high-performance web applications. The book features insider tips, tricks, and techniques to make Struts applications sizzle.
Start-to-Finish Coverage of Every Aspect of Struts 1.3
Build next-generation Java-based Web applications using Struts and the comprehensive information contained in this authoritative volume. Written by James Holmes, a committer on the Struts project, and fully updated to include the latest features of Struts 1.3, Struts: The Complete Reference is really three books in one: an in-depth tutorial, a broad reference, and an advanced developer's guide.
Learn to write high-performance Struts applications and internationalize, test, and secure them. Plus, get in-depth coverage of Tiles, Validator, the Struts tag libraries, the Struts configuration files, and AJAX. Throughout, you'll find real-world examples, cutting-edge techniques, and insider tricks that will make your Struts applications sizzle.
James Holmes is a leading Java Web development authority. He is a committer on the Struts project, and the creator of the most popular Struts tool, the Struts Console. Holmes is the author of the first edition of Struts: The Complete Reference and the co-author of JavaServer Faces: The Complete Reference and The Art of Java.
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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great book, light on db access methods,
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This review is from: Struts: The Complete Reference (Osborne Complete Reference Series) (Paperback)
From the perspective of someone who already has a few books on Struts, this book has proved useful. It has a chapter on using modules, with Tiles and the Struts Validator - the first book I've seen that does so. It also talks about the JSTL and its comparison to the standard Struts tag library, which it also has a good reference on. As this book probably went to press before JSP 2.0 was finalized, it wasn't noted - the Struts EL tag library is not required with Tomcat 5.I have only one real con, and one niggle. There is no mention of database access, not even a coment on best practices. The tutorial/sample app uses hard coded values, with a comment that a real app would use a database. The niggle is that it notes 'Covers Struts 1.2' on the cover, but I couldn't find anything inside the book that suggested what 1.2 has over 1.1. If you have some older books on Struts, or already use Struts but want to see what the hype is about with Modules and the JSTL, then this is a great book. I'd prefer to give it 4.5 stars, as the lack of data access notes bothers me a bit. Other than that, it's a great book.
15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Justifies the name "Complete Reference"..nothing more!,
By Andy Menon "Andy Menon" (Westborough, MA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Struts: The Complete Reference (Osborne Complete Reference Series) (Paperback)
I primarily bought this book for 2 reasons. One, after having seen other good reviews on this site about this book and two, to get to know more about the tag libraries used in Struts applications. Unfortunately, what i find is that this book has succeeded in putting the long "not so user-friendly" tag library documentation available elsewhere, and that run endless down browser windows into a book form. In my opinion, Struts as a technology centered around MVC is not so very difficult for a seasoned Software Developer to understand. What this book fails to explain is the usefulness of tag libraries in building the " CODE-FREE VIEW" component of a Struts-based application using tag libraries. Once i got into the chapters about tag-libraries, the pulse with which the book takes off with, begins to die twice as fast. The author(s) make(s) (a) very feeble effort in linking "variable scopes in JSP" and their connection to tag libraries. Now, i 've kept this book aside just to serve as a reference to a tag and/or its properties. In a nutshell, it's back to building traditional JSP views for me.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Good Introduction,
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This review is from: Struts: The Complete Reference (Osborne Complete Reference Series) (Paperback)
The book is a good beginners intro to the subject. After reading the first few chapters, you will be equipped and itching to move on to one of the more detailed text that aren't as friendly - like Struts in Action - that will give you the skills to actually build something useful.
You should also spend a little time getting a grounding in custom tags before you get involved with trying to learn Struts -you will get much better insight into what is going on behind the scenes - because that's essentially what the Struts framework is really all about.
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