| Overview
While the look and feel of an enterprise web application is
certainly important, developers usually find themselves spending
far too much time on the front-end presentation before they can get
to coding the good stuff--the business logic at the heart of the
program. Jakarta Struts addresses this issue by combining Java
Servlets, Java ServerPages (JSP), custom tags, and messaging
resources (like Java Message Service) into a unified, re-usable
framework. The result is a cooperative, synergistic platform that's
efficient and suitable for independent developers, large
development teams, and everyone in between. The Struts Framework
has become a highly popular open source project, but there's still
woefully little documentation on the technology. What does exist is
far too basic and lacks critical information for developers like
you writing today's complex web applications. The revised and
expanded Programming Jakarta Struts, 2nd Edition covers
everything the successful earlier edition did--including an
overview of the concepts involved in writing web applications;
installation and configuration instructions for getting Struts up
and running; a thorough discussion of how Struts implements the
Model-View-Controller (MVC) design paradigm (known as the Model 2
approach) and how to interface with that pattern in your own
applications; Logging, Validation, and Exception Handling with
Struts; using Tiles; writing internationalization and localization
code using Struts; and practical, real-world best practices for web
applications--as well as plenty more: now fully up to date with
Struts 1.1, this edition covers the latest material on tag
libraries and the new JavaServerFaces (JSF) APIs and even includes
all-new chapters on JSF, JSTL/EL, and security. With each
enterprise system he s developed, author Chuck Cavaness has spent
many grueling hours learning invaluable lessons about Struts and
figuring out the dos and the don'ts of building web applications.
He saves you time and headaches by sharing that invaluable
real-world experience here, with his realistic, practical, here's
how to do it approach to using the Struts Framework to its fullest
potential.
Editorial ReviewsProduct Description While the look and feel of an enterprise web application is certainly important, developers usually find themselves spending far too much time on the front-end presentation before they can get to coding the good stuff--the business logic at the heart of the program. Jakarta Struts addresses this issue by combining Java Servlets, Java ServerPages (JSP), custom tags, and messaging resources (like Java Message Service) into a unified, re-usable framework. The result is a cooperative, synergistic platform that's efficient and suitable for independent developers, large development teams, and everyone in between. The Struts Framework has become a highly popular open source project, but there's still woefully little documentation on the technology. What does exist is far too basic and lacks critical information for developers like you writing today's complex web applications. The revised and expanded Programming Jakarta Struts, 2nd Edition covers everything the successful earlier edition did--including an overview of the concepts involved in writing web applications; installation and configuration instructions for getting Struts up and running; a thorough discussion of how Struts implements the Model-View-Controller (MVC) design paradigm (known as the Model 2 approach) and how to interface with that pattern in your own applications; Logging, Validation, and Exception Handling with Struts; using Tiles; writing internationalization and localization code using Struts; and practical, real-world best practices for web applications--as well as plenty more: now fully up to date with Struts 1.1, this edition covers the latest material on tag libraries and the new JavaServerFaces (JSF) APIs and even includes all-new chapters on JSF, JSTL/EL, and security. With each enterprise system he s developed, author Chuck Cavaness has spent many grueling hours learning invaluable lessons about Struts and figuring out the dos and the don'ts of building web applications. He saves you time and headaches by sharing that invaluable real-world experience here, with his realistic, practical, here's how to do it approach to using the Struts Framework to its fullest potential. | Amazon.com ReviewIf you've adopted Java as your organizational language, you're probably using, or planning to use, some sort of multitier design to maximize maintainability while making your data store accessible to as many applications as possible. The Jakarta engine ranks as the interface server of choice in that environment, and the Jakarta Struts Framework 1.1 makes it far easier to implement multitier information systems. Programming Jakarta Struts is the best how-to documentation around--in print or on the Internet--on the subject of using Struts to their greatest potential. Chuck Cavaness's book is comprehensive, detailed, critical of its subject where appropriate, and generally invaluable to anyone implementing the Model-View-Controller (MVC) design pattern in Java with the assistance of Struts. Thankfully, Cavaness opens with an overview of the MVC pattern with a focus on how you're meant to implement it under Struts. For anyone thinking that implementing MVC sounds like more trouble than it's worth, this clarifies why such design usually pays off in the long run. After that, it's into the particulars, which include code listings (lots of them, delightfully commented) and crystal-clear block diagrams that show the flow of messages among objects. There are also many database schema charts that show how the authors structure data in the storefront and shopping cart application that spans the whole of this volume. --David Wall Topics covered: The Jakarta Struts Framework 1.1 and how to use it to implement the Model-View-Controller (MVC) software design pattern. All the important features of Struts 1.1 get attention, including exception handling, the validation framework, internationalization, logging, and templating with the Tiles framework. |
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Reader Reviews From Amazon (Ranked by 'Helpfulness') Average Customer Rating: based on 77 reviews. Best (but FEW YEARS AGO!), 2009-03-08 Reviewer rating: Outdated, but it was one of the best about Struts. But I gave it 4 stars because it was really my fav. | Good content... but a-whole-lotta-"shoulds", 2008-03-24 Reviewer rating: The book provides a good, basic foundation for working with Jakarta Struts from 1.1 and on. From beginner to advanced developer you'll get a good overview of what Struts is, does and some little details about the inner workings that you will benefit from knowing. Clear, concise examples make it a wonderful intro and reference.
However... the downside to the book is that the author constantly talks about and goes too in-depth into the "shoulds" of development (i.e. separating business layer from presentation, MVC etc. etc. etc.). This is not a topic for the book and results in a lot of things that could have trimmed the book down (and the cost). There's just a whole lot that he didn't need to get into that made reading it a bit of a bore at times (since it's all standard stuff everyone already knows).
Great book... just be ready to skip a bunch of sections in it. | Not very good, 2008-03-21 Reviewer rating: i've just joined a new company using struts. i am a java programmer of more than 5 years but completely new to struts, this is the book i was given by my boss but i cant understand it. My main problem is that there are no good examples to follow as if the writter assumes you know struts already. In one word, disjointed. | Not a tutorial - Don't buy if you want to learn struts, 2006-08-10 Reviewer rating: This book should not be viewed as a tutorial. If you know nothing about struts and you want to learn, do not buy this book. You will only confuse yourself.
It makes a great reference once you already know how to use struts, but you cannot learn struts from this book - at least how to code an app.
Simply put, the author does not write this as a tutorial. It does have a running example but it is not a learning book. | Thorough Review, 2006-06-21 Reviewer rating: The previous book I had on Struts did a poor job of... well, everything. It is called "The Struts Framework" and the main reason I bought it was because it was a manageable 150 pages long. (Am I the only one tired of several hundred page tech books?)
This bably logs in at around 400 pages and does a far better job of explaining what Struts is all about - both fundamentally and specifically. I read the first few introductory chapters and then just checked out the areas I was intrested in. The concepts were presented clearly and the corresponding examples weren't overly complex.
Probably the biggest downside to this book is that it covers Struts 1.1, and today Struts is at 1.2.9, which means 1.3 can't be far away. (Man, writing tech books and then keeping them up-to-date has got to be one tough job!) |
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