Yes. We cover the back-end implementations for both
Struts and Ruby on Rails. Both of these chapters are available as free downloads (just go to
www.manning.com/klein). While these two server side technologies were chosen, because they are the most popular and address the widest audiences, we hope to also supplement them with additional server side technologies. Anyone is welcome to contribute a description for other server side technologies, because we don't have the time or expertise to cover every server-side language. We have also set up a
www.laszloinaction.com website that will feature updates to the book.
The Ruby on Rails chapter is more complete (demonstrates how to support sessioned applications and data paging), simply because RoR is a more terse language. The Struts chapter also demonstrates how to update an existing Struts application to support a Laszlo application by simply updating its
JSP files.
