Good, but in need of an update.

This book is an excellent introduction into the Jakarta Struts technology, BUT you need to be aware that it is dated. It covers the basics of the technology well and tries to get you into the first coding examples quickly and that is where you run into problems.

The book is written against versions of Struts and Eclipse that are quite old now (Struts 1.1 and Eclipse 2.1). The Eclipse environment has changed significantly and many of the Struts tag libraries described in the book have changed (they have been renamed, moved or incorporated into other libraries). This means that you cannot get the examples in the book to run without a significant amount of changes.

It is a shame because the book is well written and clear but unless the author does a major update or you are willing to hunt for, and use old versions of the software you might be better off finding something more up-to-date.

Other Reviews

• Good basic Java book
• Perfect book to begin learning struts!
• Was disappointed in this book
• Good, but in need of an update.
• First starting, then it gets cold