Struts Recipes [Paperback]

George Franciscus (Author), Danilo Gurovich (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 15, 2004

This strategy guide helps developers to solve Struts problems and highlights the best practices to ensure that applications are secure, robust, and maintainable. Detailed code listings are designed to save developers time and money by jumping straight to the answer. In addition to a solution, each recipe clearly defines the business problem, provides the necessary background to understand the recipe, and discusses the implications of using the solution, and recipes reveal every layer of the model view controller (2) design pattern. Detailed descriptions are also provided for using basic and extended tag libraries (including Struts-Layout), using Ant with Struts, validation, security, and complex problem solving. All of the recipes contained in the book have been used and implemented in enterprise level applications so that they can be used with confidence.
Recipes include:
* How to automate your projects using Ant builds
* Cross validate your forms with a pluggable validator
* Unit testing your apps for function, performance, and coverage
* Make your applications secure
* How to effectively deal with exceptions
* Generate alternate view using PDF and XSL
* Refine your UI with Struts-Layout
* How do design a layered Struts application
* Understand the ins and out of the Tiles Controller
* Use a database in your message-resource
* Integration with Hibernate
* Use a Struts plug-in to cache resources
*Extend the iterate tag to alternate row colors
* Use the SSL extension library
* Learn about the undocumented Validator constants
* Create a wizard
.... and much more!

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About the Author

<div><b>George Franciscus</b> is an independent consultant at Nexcel.ca, providing technical and management consulting services. He has experience in a diverse range of technologies, including Java, J2EE, Domino, relational databases, and mainframe technologies and is the coauthor of <i>Struts In Action</i>. He lives in Toronto, Ontario. <b>Danilo Gurovich</b> is the manager of web development at LowerMyBills.com. He has designed and implemented Struts-based applications in high traffic commerce, enterprise application integration monitoring and controlling, and business process management. His non-Java experience extends to GUI Design, Human Factors, and Graphics. He lives in Northridge, California.<br></div>

Gurovich is a Manager of Web Engineering at an eCommerce Company.

Product Details

• Paperback: 489 pages
• Publisher: Manning Publications (July 15, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1932394249
• ISBN-13: 978-1932394245
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 7.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,512,476 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Unusual but Effective Approach, February 9, 2005

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John Matlock "Gunny" (Winnemucca, NV) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Struts Recipes (Paperback)

In a recipe cook book you start off with what you want to do, bake a cake perhaps. In this book the same philosophy is used to introduce the use of Struts to build business applications.

The general rule is for a desirable function to be defined and then there's a recipe to get that task done.

One of the desirable tasks so discussed is Alternate Row Colors in a Table. They break this task down into a few standard sections:

define the problem
Background of why you might want this Recipe
Discussion
Reference

This same treatment is given to a hundred or more tasks. The may not all fit your needs (yet), but this is almost a painless way to learn what the Struts do that he is using to implement the task.

This is not a beginners book, you should have some idea about writing in Java, and it would be very helpful to have some background using ANT.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Useful solutions to common Struts issues, January 9, 2005

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Jack D. Herrington "engineer and author" (Silicon Valley, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Struts Recipes (Paperback)

This is a no-nonsense well written set of solutions to common Struts issues. It's certainly not an introduction to Struts and doesn't intend to be. This is a reference work for Struts users who are looking for canned solutions to problems like Tomcat security, Internationalization, or bread crumb trails. Each solution has a short description of the problem (with some background supplied), then the solution recipe and a discussion of the solution.

This is an easy to use, and read, reference format that works well for situations where you have a loosely organized set of common problems. Check the table of contents to make sure that you are getting solutions to the problems you face. If you find topics that interest you rest assured that they are covered well in the book.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Go get it..., January 31, 2007

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Dror Guzman (New York, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Struts Recipes (Paperback)

WOW!

I read some good reviews about this book in this forum and decided to give it a chance. This book is best for working with Struts. You can learn everything you need to know quite simply and quickly and then use the book later as a reference. There's no question about it, the book does an excellent job of describing the various elements of the struts framework. The explanations are clear, simple and concise!

Bottom line: Highly Recommended