Who Should Read This Book?

Among the books on Struts currently available, our goal was to write the book that was the most helpful in the least amount of time. This book is packed full of practical examples designed to get the point across quickly. If you're looking for a book that takes a leisure pace or tries to give you exhaustive coverage of every detail, look somewhere else. If you want to pick up the technology quickly and find sample code you can use as the basis for real applications, this book is for you.

If you're using Struts or JSP today, the value of this book is it's kick-start style and how you can work through only the chapters you need. As mentioned, the sample code and companion CD-ROM are of immediate value.

If you're new to the technology or just interested in learning, this book is a good choice as well. Because we cover the technology from a quick-start perspective, you'll find that we try to teach you what you need to know quickly, and don't dwell on material that's unimportant. We feel you can move fastest with this approach.

No matter what your needs are, the breadth of material covered will be useful. In addition to covering Struts itself, we present real-world examples of applications written using other important technologies such as JBoss, Apache Axis, Jakarta Torque, XDoclet, MySQL, and more. Copies of all these products are included on the companion CD-ROM, so you don't have spend all day downloading files.