I took a brief look at the book, so my review of it might not be totally correct.
I found Programming Jakarta Struts a more (for advanced) users book. Half of the book is a copy of the documentation, which I found annoying. I personally, being an author, like to see books that explain things from the ground up, giving explanations of the internals, since what better way to really understand something, than to know how and why it works this way. Ilya -----Original Message----- From: Robert S. Sfeir To: Struts Users Mailing List Sent: 1/8/03 12:38 PM Subject: Re: Wanted a Good Struts Book hands down Programming Jakarta Struts is the best book out there right now. Covers the latest version. What I like about it most is that it goes into the best way of extracting the model/view before it even discusses using it with Struts. So you end up with examples that are Struts independent which you then implement with Struts. This gives you the ability to go to a different framework (not sure why you'd want to do that), or reuse your code for a different approach to your app. R On Wednesday, January 8, 2003, at 02:19 PM, Ron Day wrote: > No-one seems to mention "Struts Kick Start" from Sams Publishing. > > For a good practical book with lots of examples, > and a great section on the Struts tagLibs, its hard to beat. > > I have it on my shelf next to Chuck and Ted's books. > > I agree that there are omissions and errors in Mastering Jakarta > Struts. > In their hurry to get it out "first" the publishers did not do a > thorough > job on QC or Peer reviews. The section on taglibs is far inferior to > the one > in the "Kick Start" > > FYI, The Tomcat Kick Start book is also excellent. I am really liking > that > whole series.... > > Ron > > -----Original Message----- > From: Vincent Stoessel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 12:48 PM > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: Re: Wanted a Good Struts Book > > > mech wrote: >> Avoid "Mastering Jakarta Struts". It was on sale at Amazon, so I took >> it >> (at that time all newer (more) up-to-date books weren't available >> yet). >> Actually for a simple application it's okay, but I got the impression >> that it's not really "complete". It's somewhere stuck in between >> Struts >> 1.0 and 1.1. I guess it's fine, if you don't mind to read the Struts >> docu whenever you exceed the scope of the book. >> And the taglibs, only mentioned in the appendix... Well just written >> down what you could find in the documentation. Hardly any examples for >> tag usage (except those cases you could figure out yourself because >> obvious) > > > > I would disagree on that point. All the taglibs have > 1. a definition of every attribute. > 2. working example of the tag. > 3. example of what the rendered html result will look like. > > There may be errors as mech said, but I have not run across one yet. > I have Chuck and ted's books as well. Weighing in as the thinnist book > of the bunch , I still use it as a tag reference. Having said that I > love ted's book a lot, it is stuffed with a lot of excellent > information.A lot of question that are asked frequently on this list > are answered in this book. Chuck's book I have not had a chance to > really evaluate it fully but I liked what I have seen so far. > -- > Vincent Stoessel > Linux Systems Developer > vincent xaymaca.com > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
