Professional Java Development with the Spring Framework

If you are looking for a definitive reference manual, and a guide on Spring 1.2 this book is it. Look no further.This book has significant depth, and it will teach you, clarify or answer almost any question on any area of the current Spring relase (1.2).It has a very thorough coverage of Spring MVC, Acegi, AOP, Persistance, Spring JDBC. It will make those still unconvinced about the Spring much more comfortable about using it.Why I then gave it 4 and not 5 stars.I would expect that authors of this book who happen to be an authors of the framework itself would go an extra mile and describe some major new features that are available but awaiting Spring 1.3 (like Spring WebFlow) release; I would expect them to be less skimpy on some major "hot off the press" features that are part of the Spring 1.2.2 such as transactional annotations.(Yes, they are brand new, but these guys knew they were coming. They implemented them.) That would completely differentiate this otherwise excellent book from the other books on the same subject.Hard core Spring users who lived by so far by the reference manual available on the Spring's web site, and by support forumswill not find much new in this book.The other book on this subject that I own and recommend is "Spring in Action".

Very incomplete information and examples, the missing pieces being crucial. Overall, poorly and inaccurately written. The authors jump into details before giving the reader the context into which the details should fit. The examples are three-line snippets that fail miserable in showing how to put all the pieces together. Lots of features covered in very short sections that never explain how to use the framework to build a system from beginning to end. Only confused me and wasted my time. I'm at the point of giving up on Spring.

A couple of years ago, this was a great introduction to the Spring Framework. Now it's a decent set of out-of-date pointers.It's great background reading. Buy it if you can get it cheap, since there are more-modern (i.e., better for the now) books.This book is simply a casualty of Spring's success: There's *so* much being integrated into the framework, and the framework's getting better at such a rapid pace.

excellent

this book does not give you a spead start-up... nop, you had already to know whats this spring is all about to get this book... I recommend highly this book, but be aware to get all the programmer to programmer series before reading this book to understand everything that need to be undestood to use Spring...

condition the book is very good when i received. paper quality and product as they mention in description of the book is same. And i received the book before delivery time.

This is the book I had been waiting for, taking off where Pro Spring by Harrop & Machacek left me. It is typical in that it gives short examples on the key Spring functionality, but it adds the Acegi Security System for Spring add-on module.The primary advantage of this book is that it not only explains the Spring functionality, but also explains some of the decisions behind the various implementation options and, most importantly, gives best practice information and specific decision points to assist developers in choosing the right option for the situation.The sample web application that finishes up the book is a re-write of the one in Rod Johnson's Expert One-on-One J2EE Design and Development. A good choice as it allows one to see not only how the framework has grown and matured, but that the architecture is maintainable.Unlike other Wrox 'book by committee' offerings, this one is well organized, tight, and has a common writing style; probably a result of the team working together for so long.Definitely a must have for intermediate Spring Developers!That said, I have two caveats: 1. The book is not an introduction to Spring. If you are new to the framework, I recommend Pro Spring. Then get this one. 2. The book doesn't describe the architectural 'whys'. For that, I recommend Rod Johnson's Expert One-on-One offerings.

I bought this book reading the good reviews and with hope that I will get the needed knowledge about Spring framework. Although in some modules (IOC, AOP) the book is quite good and explains well the concepts, it lacks the concrete examples. The method used to explain the most complicated concepts makes them hard to understand without any other source of information.I found a lot of unnecessary information while the book lacks the necessary explanations sometimes.

This is an essential book and Spring is an amazing framework - Rod is truly 'Rod the God'. However, this is a difficult book which does not explain things simply - it hits you with the facts and doesn't always explain just how useful the feature is. Spring is also very expansive and Rod has a tendency to blow the mind of us mere mortals.The book is a useful reference but as a tutorial is hard going. The other frustrating thing about this book is the poor index."Spring in Action" is a lot more user-friendly and readable while still covering the detail. "Spring - a Developer's Notebook" is a very good book for getting up and running quickly and cutting through the complexity. Really you need all three of these books to learn Spring. It is really worth it though - it saves you a lot of time, coding and bugs in the long run.

Wenn man mit Spring arbeitet, das ist DAS Buch. Muss man gelesen haben.Ich denke, da ist alles drin, sogar die ganze Klassenhierarchien von den verschiedenen Modulen.Ist ein Muss für Leute, die mit Spring arbeiten.