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, and recipes reveal every layer of the model view controller (2) design pattern. Detailed descriptions are also provided for using basic and extended tag libraries (including Struts-Layout), using Ant with Struts, validation, security, and complex problem solving. All of the recipes contained in the book have been used and implemented in enterprise level applications so that they can be used with confidence.
Recipes include:
* How to automate your projects using Ant builds
* Cross validate your forms with a pluggable validator
* Unit testing your apps for function, performance, and coverage
* Make your applications secure
* How to effectively deal with exceptions
* Generate alternate view using PDF and XSL
* Refine your UI with Struts-Layout
* How do design a layered Struts application
* Understand the ins and out of the Tiles Controller
* Use a database in your message-resource
* Integration with Hibernate
* Use a Struts plug-in to cache resources
* Extend the iterate tag to alternate row colors
* Use the SSL extension library
* Learn about the undocumented Validator constants
* Create a wizard
.... and much more!
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Go get it...
WOW!
I read some good reviews about this book in this forum and decided to give it a chance. This book is best for working with Struts. You can learn everything you need to know quite simply and quickly and then use the book later as a reference. There's no question about it, the book does an excellent job of describing the various elements of the struts framework. The explanations are clear, simple and concise!
Bottom line: Highly Recommended
Rating: - Many errors
I am clearly in the minority here, as all other reviewers gave this book a very high rating. Although I don't feel that I got my money's worth, obviously a fair number of people are satisfied with the book.
I was unhappy with the large number of errors and typos in the book. Tech books from all publishers tend to have a lot of typos, but Struts Recipes has even more than most.
For example, on page 183 a recipe begins this way: "For the purposes of this recipe, the underlying ... Read More
Rating: - 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!
Rating: - Solve real-life business problems
During my project developing my e-commerce web site, I keep this book by my side. It has tremendous useful strategies which helps to solve real-life business problems.
The book is written in very organized manner. Define the task, Explain the background, provide solution and recommend the best practice. It is easy to read and the topics in the book are well covered.
It is truly a 'must-have' for building solid business applications.
Rating: - A "must-have" for any serious-minded Struts programmer
J2EE consultant and Struts authority George Franciscus and web engineer Danilo Gurovich present Struts Recipes, a programming guide written especially for developers and architects who need to craft secure, robust, and maintainable applications, particularly for business or commercial use. Chapters instruct the reader in how to unit test an application for function, performance, and coverage; how to make an application secure; how to integrate with Hibernate; dealing with exceptions; generating alternative ... Read More
- Go get it...
- Many errors
