The Stripes Book Blog

Stripes-Quickstart is an Ant script that speeds up the process of creating a new Stripes project. Here is a summary of its features:

• Creates the project directory structure
• Downloads and copies the appropriate JAR files
• Generates a basic web.xml file
• Generates an action bean, a layout, and a simple page as a starting point
• Supports JSP/JSTL and FreeMarker
• Creates an Ant build.xml file for compiling and packaging the web application
• Creates a run target to run the web application in Jetty
• Creates an xml file that you can use to run the web application in Tomcat
• Creates ready-to-import Eclipse and NetBeans projects

Tonight I arrived home from work and my copy of the Stripes book was there waiting for me. Joy! It felt great to hold in my hands the result of all that hard work. Of course, I'm biased when I say that I think the book came out pretty nice. I'm looking forward to seeing reviews from readers. So far, the comments have been very positive, and I really appreciate that.

Meanwhile, I'm working on a Stripes-Quickstart project that will help new users get started with Stripes, and will also save time when creating a new Stripes project. Stay tuned.

At my workplace, we're looking into adding autocomplete fields into our Stripes web application. YUI is interesting to us because it not only has an autocomplete feature, it also includes some nice UI widgets that we may want to use, and of course also provides AJAX support. This weekend, I experimented with integrating YUI AutoComplete with Stripes, and I thought I'd share the results here.

The Stripes book is now complete and available! The PDF has been updated at The Pragmatic Programmers, and the book is now available in print version, at PragProg as well as Amazon and other bookstores worldwide. I sincerely hope that you enjoy reading this book as much as I enjoyed writing it!

Rick Smith has written a new Stripes article over on DevX. Great work Rick!

Stripes-Reload now reloads the JSTL resource bundle.

Last night, Daniel Steinberg and Jackie Carter of The Pragmatic Programmers did a telephone interview with me about the Stripes framework and book. The podcast is available here.

I've updated Stripes-Reload with a few bug fixes and a newly added feature of reloading the changes made to parent classes. Enjoy!

The Stripes Book is getting close to the final version. I have some copy-editing-related reviewing to do. Then, the copy-editor does a final pass. After typesetting, it's off to the printer's!

Stripes-Reload is a plugin for Stripes 1.5 that reloads modifications made to your Action Beans, Type Converters, Formatters, and Resource Bundles without having to restart your server.

It was pointed out to me that it's not as clear as it should be, which version of Stripes is covered in the book.

Thanks to Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas, The Pragmatic Programmers, the Stripes book is now back online with a shiny new cover!

The Stripes book is temporarily "off-line" as the cover is being changed. I really like the new cover! The kite is light, simple and fun, just like Stripes. If you don't see the options to buy the book here, please try again a little later. It should be back sometime today.

The Stripes beta-book is now available! Get it while it's hot!

Funny coincidence, I was trying things out in Rails and was having trouble getting more than one submit button working in the same form. The coincidence part is that I also saw a posting about Struts2, and it turns out they don't have a good solution either. In Stripes, it's clean and simple.