From: "Jesse Alexander (KXT)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Struts Users Mailing List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: Learning the basics Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 08:29:02 +0200
Have you looked at "Struts in Action" by Ted Husted <http://www.manning.com/husted>.
The "in Action" books are now one of my preferred collection of books.
You can check it out at half the price (ebook) which will be "refunded" when
you also buy the printed version from them. Their eShop works good.
Also new (I have not yet looked at it) from Manning: "Struts Recipes" <http://www.manning.com/catalog/view.php?book=franciscus>. This one is not for Struts-Beginners!
Happy Reading Alexander
-----Original Message----- From: Janne Mattila [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2004 8:19 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Learning the basics
I did not notice any book recommendations in answers to your question, and frankly, I am not surprised. For learning a new technology I prefer a good, well-written and well-structured book to harvesting scattered web pages to critical pieces of information. Unfortunately, I have read three books and can not recommend any of those to you:
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 > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
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