New Struts2 Book : Feedback Requested

[Jayson Joseph Chacko <ja...@gmail.com>]

Hi Guys,

 I am working on a new Struts2 book titled - "Struts2 Guide for Web
Application Developers".
The target audience is Web application developers starting on Struts2
framework.
I have created some sample chapters and an overall book layout. You can see
it at ,

http://www.struts2.org/free-struts2-book/
I require feedback on the book content/layout and any suggestions for new
topics to be included.
I plan to complete the book after Struts 2.1 is released.

TIA,
Jayson

Re: New Struts2 Book : Feedback Requested

[bhaarat Sharma <bh...@gmail.com>]

please for sanity's sake do not have maven involved like this book did
http://www.apress.com/book/view/1590599039

This book was a disappointment for me.

Also, you should have a completely different chapter on struts2 html
tags.  Forums are filled with questions about s2 html tags and there
doesn't seem to be a book that documents them.  Heck, this above book
doesnt even have a chapter on it.

Also, showing how iBatis can be integrated with S2 would be good.
There are lot of books out there that show integration with hibernate
but none shows it with iBatis.

Good luck!

On Jan 21, 2008 5:21 AM, James Mitchell <jm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Looks to be so .. "Struts2 Guide for Web Application Developers is a
> free Struts2 book made available through http://www.struts2.org. "
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> On Jan 21, 2008 3:15 AM, Alvaro Sanchez-Mariscal
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> > Will it be free?
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> > Alvaro.
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Re: New Struts2 Book : Feedback Requested

[James Mitchell <jm...@gmail.com>]

Looks to be so .. "Struts2 Guide for Web Application Developers is a
free Struts2 book made available through http://www.struts2.org. "


On Jan 21, 2008 3:15 AM, Alvaro Sanchez-Mariscal
<al...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > http://www.struts2.org/free-struts2-book/
>
> Will it be free?
>
> Alvaro.
>
>
> --
> Alvaro Sanchez-Mariscal Arnaiz
> Java EE Architect & Instructor
> alvaro.sanchezmariscal@gmail.com
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Re: New Struts2 Book : Feedback Requested

[Alvaro Sanchez-Mariscal <al...@gmail.com>]

> http://www.struts2.org/free-struts2-book/

Will it be free?

Alvaro.


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Re: New Struts2 Book : Feedback Requested

[Al Sutton <al...@alsutton.com>]

Jayson,

Some comments;

1) Reduce the amount of side bars. At the moment the readability is impaired 
by having two right hand bars reducing the meat of your book to only 2/3rds 
of the width of the page.

2) Put up more than one chapter. If you want comments on your formatting 
then we need to see the whole book.

3) You need more background explanation. The section "Developing Your First 
Struts2 Application" doesn't explain what the files you've given actually 
do. It ends up being more of a "cut, paste, run, sit back and wonder why you 
still wouldn't know how to change it".

4) Improve your English.  The phrase "Following are the files we need in 
struts2demo project and the purpose of each of them is also given." sounds 
like it's come from a badly translated manual.

If you want a good example of a readable book with excellent explanations 
have a look at Ians' "Starting Struts 2" book, I've picked up a couple of 
things from it and have found it easy to read (which reminds me I must go 
and post a review on Amazon).

Al.


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From: "Jayson Joseph Chacko" <ja...@gmail.com>
To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <us...@struts.apache.org>
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Subject: New Struts2 Book : Feedback Requested


> Hi Guys,
>
> I am working on a new Struts2 book titled - "Struts2 Guide for Web
> Application Developers".
> The target audience is Web application developers starting on Struts2
> framework.
> I have created some sample chapters and an overall book layout. You can 
> see
> it at ,
>
> http://www.struts2.org/free-struts2-book/
> I require feedback on the book content/layout and any suggestions for new
> topics to be included.
> I plan to complete the book after Struts 2.1 is released.
>
> TIA,
> Jayson
> 


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