Struts Recipes

by Danilo Gurovich and George Franciscus

This strategy guide helps developers to solve Struts problems and highlights the best practices to ensure that applications are secure, robust, and maintainable. Detailed code listings are designed to save developers time and money by jumping straight to the answer. In addition to a solution, each recipe clearly defines the business problem, provides the necessary background to understand the recipe, and discusses the implications of using the solution,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1932394249
• ISBN13: 9781932394245
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: Manning Publications
• Length: 489 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.4" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

There's no need to re-invent the wheel everytime...

As an experienced programmer I really needed a book that could take me a step further in Struts development. This is a book I keep reading over and over as it contains solutions to real-life problems. Thanks George, for giving us such a gem!

A book for professionals written by professionals...

This book is written the way we think while we are in the middle of one of those everyday problems. To the rescue - "Struts Recipes". If you need to know how to solve that one dogging - gotcha issue, you can look it up and make use of one of the many prescribed recipes. Topics range from building your application in a well structured way to making your application secure and safe. Easy to read and well covered.

Perfect for hands-on people

This book is perfect for people who "learn as they code" (as oppose to those who learn as they read). Each task is well defined with clear problem statement and easy-to-follow implementation steps. Better yet, all implementations are backed by "best practice" -- which means you won't get embarrased at work during code reviews :) This book is also great for developers who know the basics and are now thinking, "what else can I do with Struts?" There are lots to explore... and this book will open the door for you.

Unusual but Effective Approach

In a recipe cook book you start off with what you want to do, bake a cake perhaps. In this book the same philosophy is used to introduce the use of Struts to build business applications. The general rule is for a desirable function to be defined and then there's a recipe to get that task done. One of the desirable tasks so discussed is Alternate Row Colors in a Table. They break this task down into a few standard sections: define the problem Background of why you might want this Recipe Discussion Reference This same treatment is given to a hundred or more tasks. The may not all fit your needs (yet), but this is almost a painless way to learn what the Struts do that he is using to implement the task. This is not a beginners book, you should have some idea about writing in Java, and it would be very helpful to have some background using ANT.

Useful solutions to common Struts issues

This is a no-nonsense well written set of solutions to common Struts issues. It's certainly not an introduction to Struts and doesn't intend to be. This is a reference work for Struts users who are looking for canned solutions to problems like Tomcat security, Internationalization, or bread crumb trails. Each solution has a short description of the problem (with some background supplied), then the solution recipe and a discussion of the solution. This is an easy to use, and read, reference format that works well for situations where you have a loosely organized set of common problems. Check the table of contents to make sure that you are getting solutions to the problems you face. If you find topics that interest you rest assured that they are covered well in the book.