[STRUTS BOOK] Mastering Jakarta Struts

["Galbreath, Mark" <Ga...@tessco.com>]

Just got James' "Mastering Jakarta Struts" (Wiley 2002) last night from
Amazon.  Scanning through it, the layout and coverage looks very good.  If I
have one criticism at this time, it's that anyone wanting to "master Jakarta
Struts" already knows about web applications and servlet containers.  There
was no need to spend the first 60 pages of the book on those subjects
(especially the Tomcat-specific stuff).
 
Chuck and Ted: yours are preordered.  ;-)
 
Mark

Re: [STRUTS BOOK]

[Ted Husted <hu...@apache.org>]

The Introduction was one of the trickier parts of the book for us. The 
publisher kept saying the original first chapter wasn't the beginning. 
We were starting with Struts, but they wanted to start sooner than that. 
They also wanted a hands-on Struts example in the first chapter. I had 
no idea how to do all that in a single first chapter. Then George 
Franciscus came to the rescue with a very tightly written introductory 
chapter. It covers the basics of the underlying technologies and then 
leaps right into a working Struts application!

The "trick" George came up for the example was to include the prebuilt
classes in the download. That way, we didn't have to get into the build
issues before showing people what it is "like" to develop in Struts.

In fact, the new "Enabling Technologies" section of the Struts User
guide grew out of the work we did with our own chapter 1. Of course, 
ours has more text than hyperlinks (but that's what you have to do in 
print).

We'll be posting the Tiles and Validator chapters as our book examples 
Real Soon Now. Of course, Cedric and David drafted those. We decided to 
post these two since Tiles and Validator and the least documented parts 
of the framework right now. As example chapters, we will be able to keep 
them up indefinitely.

-Ted.


Galbreath, Mark wrote:

 > Just got James' "Mastering Jakarta Struts" (Wiley 2002) last night from
 > Amazon.  Scanning through it, the layout and coverage looks very 
good.  If I
 > have one criticism at this time, it's that anyone wanting to "master 
Jakarta
 > Struts" already knows about web applications and servlet containers. 
  There
 > was no need to spend the first 60 pages of the book on those subjects
 > (especially the Tomcat-specific stuff).
 >
 > Chuck and Ted: yours are preordered.  ;-)
 >
 > Mark
 >
 >

-- 
Ted Husted, Husted dot Com, Fairport NY US
co-author, Java Web Development with Struts
Order it today:
<http://husted.com/struts/book.html>



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