Practical Apache Struts 2 Web 2.0 Projects
by
Ian Roughley
Apress
1 edition
November 2007
338 pages
Reviewed by Jeanne Boyarsky, February 2008
(7 of 10)
"Practical Apache Struts2 Web 2.0 Projects" walks you through developing an app in Struts2. It includes use cases, iterations, a build process and some unit tests.
A number of other reviews correctly point out this book is not for beginners. You should be familiar with MVC before starting out. This was ok as I wasn't expecting an "intro to struts 2" book based on the title. The author includes a section on Hibernate bare essentials to get readers with different experience on the same page.
I found there to be a good balance between how Struts 2.0 works and implementing common things you might actually want to do in practice. While the book does cover Web 2.0 a bit, this is more of an extra buzzword in the title. The last two chapters are really the Web 2.0 part -- RSS and AJAX.
The end left me a little off balance. There was a whole chapter of introduction. The end was the AJAX chapter and the immediately dumped you in the index. A bit of conclusion, or at least a blank page, would have been nice.
Overall, the book was fine. It is good for a "recipes of common tasks" type book once you have read a bit about Struts 2.0.
(7 of 10)
