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"It doesn't just talk about how to configure and develop with Struts. It's a web application manifesto."
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"The author's approach to making the reader a Struts expert is effective . . . Go from Struts beginner to Struts expert."
Struts in Action is a good book that has some flaws. I had this book pre-ordered on Amazon from the minute I heard about its publication. The lead author Ted Husted is very active in the Struts development community and still manages a great Struts resource site.
I read the book right away and spent a few weeks going over all the examples in the book. My overall feeling is that this is a good book but it suffers from a lot of the same thing that affects other Struts book. These books were published right around the release of Struts 1.1 and so they are on the fence where they talk about Struts 1.0 and 1.1. Since I had used Struts 1.0 before, the sections that described the changes from 1.0 to 1.1 was very helpful.
Like other books, there is some mention of JSTL but not any details. The section on tag libraries is extensive and well written.
I just went through all my Struts books again as I had to teach a 6 week class on Struts. I went through the five Struts books I owned and I settled on 'Programming Jakarta Struts' by Chuck Cavaness as my finalist. Struts in Action is really a good book but I felt the Chuck Cavaness did a better job of acting as a tutorial. So if you only want to buy one Struts book, I would recommend the Chuck Cavaness book. However, if you want more than one, I would highly recommend this book as your second book on Struts. - By Vinit Carpenter
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Struts in Action: Building Web Applications with the Leading Java Framework
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Related Book
Struts: The Complete Reference, 2nd Edition (Complete Reference Series)
