After much anticipation, the book is now available, both from SAMS (with $8 overnight shipping!!), and Amazon. Readers are already beginning to comment:
From: Ron Day [mailto:ronday@ronday.cc]
Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 10:55 AM
To: Struts Users Mailing List
Subject: RE: [ANNOUNCE] Shameless Plug: Struts Kick Start now available for shipping at Amazon
I'd like to second what Kevin has said.
I have bought and read every book on Struts, in the order that they were published. I got Kick Start this Wednesday. (Sams sent it overnight for $8.). My three favorite books are Chuck's, Ted's and Kick Start. All three are different, have the personalities and interests of the authors, and offer three perspectives on Struts development and best practices. I would be very hard-pressed to choose just one, but since I love tech books that isn't an issue for me. All three are intermediate to advanced texts (for more intro material, look at "Mastering Struts" ). If I had to give one reason for buying Kick Start, I would say "for the excellent chapters on Struts Tags". The other books do not dwell on the Tags, while KickStart has a detailed chapter on each library.
Ron
Kevin's posted a weblog entry on the O'Reilly site on "Selling Open Source to Management" - here's the URL:
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/2287