Mastering Jakarta Struts: elementary stuff, contains lots of errors, does not tell you how to implement non-trivial UI. Most is copy-paste from the apache.org documentation. Poorly structured content.
Jakarta-Struts Live: goes deeper into details and offers more advanced stuff. Unfortunately author's way of words (no O'Reilly style sophistication here) and the book's (lack of) structure mean that it is an absolute pain to read! Also, you end up fiddling with lots and lots of "neat" plugins and helper applications (StrutsTestCase etc) for days before you get anywhere in the actual topic.
Programming Jakarta Struts: Perhaps the best structure out of these books. Unfortunately also covers just the basics and contains lots of copy-paste from the apache documentation. It seems that the author could not think of enough to write on Struts, so he blabbers on things such as "unit testing is good" and "performance is important". What is it with the techincal books and their mammoth syndrome? Does every book have to contain all the knowledge of the author? The examples are really irritating - incomplete and you wil not be able to follow them by writing your own application piece by piece, the only way is to get the sources from O'Reilly and compile them all since the code is so coupled. Also lot of the book concentrates on author's proprietary framework.
None of these was a catastrophe though, but all were a bit "so-so"....I have yet to find a _really good_ book.
From: "Kenneth Litwak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Learning the basics Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 11:22:33 -0700
If I'm an experienced developer, but new to Struts, do I need to buy a book to write a basic app, or is there an online tutorial or something like that that is sufficient? One of the things I'd like to figure out is to how to have three radio buttons, and a regular button, and have a different action for each radio button. I can't figure out how to wire that. Thanks.
Ken
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