I finished reading Struts in Action a few days ago and I'm very glad I did. A colleague had picked it up at work but moved on to another project before he could put it to use so I finally brought it home. I would consider myself pretty much a Struts 1.0 expert, but I really don't have much experience with any of the 1.1 technology or really anything recent in Jakarta-land, although I've been reading and keeping up on it as much as I can. This book did a great job of keeping 1.0 and 1.1 things separate and clearly showing what the differences are. I am not so sure how good a how-to book this one is for those completely unfamiliar with Struts, or at least web frameworks, but my gut feeling is that it would be a good one. I might be biased, as well, because Ted Husted and his website got me out of a lot of jams when I was learning Struts for the first time ;)

