This book is a must for anyone using Stripes, novice or pro. The author has done a great job of explaining the basics as well as the details of Stripes’ amazing features while showing how to build a reallife application. A novice developer can get up to speed fast, keeping with Stripes’ pragmatic approach to development: “It doesn’t have to be hard.” As the chapters progress, you will gain thorough knowledge of all the Stripes features.