Struts Controller UML diagrams

Bookshelf	Last update : 01/07/2004	back to HOME PAGE

These days, it seems that most of the good books are published by Manning ... It's also good to see that programmers all over the world - americans, europeans and australians - collaborate to write these books.

Effective Java, Joshua Block (Addison Wesley/Sun), the secret tricks and best practices by one of the author of the language that should read by any java programmer.
Bitter Java, Bruce A. Tate (Manning), a very useful collection of anti-patterns in java: servlet programming, multithread, caching, programming hygiene.
Java Development with Ant, Erik Hatcher and Steve Loughran (Manning), it's good to know what ant is able to do even if you (will) use Maven!

Design Patterns, The Gang of Four, the bible.
Core J2EE Design Patterns (Sun, 2nd edition), a catalog of patterns classified by Tiers (Presentation, Business and Integration), all J2EE Developers should be familiar with the patterns and the vocabulary described in this book.
Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code, Martin Fowler (Addison Wesley), what to do if your code smells!
Extreme Programming Applied, Ken Auer, Roy Miller (Addison Wesley), an overall of principles recommanded by the Agile methods. You will definitely improve the quality of your code (and make your customer happy) if you apply Unit Testing, Refactoring, Continuous Integration, Coding Standard, Collective Code Ownership, Simple Design and Pair Programming (or very frequent Code Review)!
Junit in Action,Vincent Massol with Ted Husted, a good Junit cookbook, some examples in this book are not trivial though.

Struts in Action, Ted N. Husted, Cedric Dumoulin, George Franciscus, David Winterfeldt, Jean-Michel Garnier (Manning), one of many books published about Struts! I have contributed to this book by giving an UML Sequence diagram (p.48).
Art of Java Web Development, Neal Ford (Manning), a very good introduction to Web frameworks: Struts, Tapestry, Velocity, Cocoon, InternetBeans and WebWork.
Hibernate in Action, Christian Bauer and Gavin King (Manning), this book describes a very promising persistence layer framework. Forget EJB CMP or any in-house persistence layer you could write!


For any comments / suggestions :Jean-Michel Garnier