Spring Framework

This book is definitely helped me to learn Spring-related technologies such as Spring-JDBC, MyBatis, AOP, Security, Transaction Management, JMX Monitoring, Messaging, Drools, and Web services. The content is very code intensive, lot of breadth and depth, and step-by-step examples are provided. The messaging chapter contains lot of depth like MDP, EJB (MDB) integration with Spring, JMSTemplate class, how to use JMS namespace etc. This book also has some good stuff related to Velocity and Freemarker, which can be used to integrate with the Ajax and Spring-MVC frameworks. Cons: -It's a 600 page book, difficult to carry from home to office. -Content might have divided in two volumes instead of one book. -Spring Batch integration chapter covers file-to-file integration. Good to include database integration. Overall, my final rating is FOUR.

I have been working with Spring and Java EE related technologies for quite some time and I purchased this book to learn advanced Spring topics. This book helped me to understand the Spring security, Spring transactions, AOP, MyBatis, REST and SOAP-based web services, Messaging and Drools implementation. In my opinion some of the advanced topics were nicely illustrated in this book. My current project has decided to use Messaging and Drools rule engine technologies with Spring. This book helped me to understand these and I am able implement these in my project. I use this book to learn Drools integration with Spring, How to use complex Java collections in Drools, change sets and Drools RMA implementation. We use Weblogic application server for messaging, the step-by-step configurations provided in messaging chapter helped me to configure queues to implement message driven pojo's. The structure of the book is very much step-by-step throughout and text reads good. Several code examples are provided in each chapter and content is very code intensive. The best part of this book is step-by-step examples, various possible implementation solutions (in this book author used Case1, Case 2, etc.), summary sections provided at the end of each chapter and last chapter summarizes the complete spring framework namespaces, templates and annotations. Yes, I would like to keep this book in my shelf.

Too much code example, concept level explainat ion is missing for some of important topics. This book is definitely good if you already know Spring, or atleast have some other spring book which talks at spring concept.

This book starts ok and the chapters contained look like they should give a great introduction to using Spring. Unfortunately, it fails miserably. Many steps are missing in this "step by step approach". The descriptions within are lacking and there is nothing in the book related to setting up an IDE to write code using the examples. I guess you are supposed to write the code with a plain text editor and use the java compiler manually. Except, no one really does that. One chapter explaining a setup would have helped. As an example of steps missing. In the section on using Spring in web environment (which really should be the bulk since that is how it is mostly used), there is an example of using plain JSP. Except the JSP code given requires JSTL. The book clearly states for Case 1, JSP without JSTL. But no example code. No description of what it should do. You are left guessing The WAR file shows 8 files in it. Example code is given for 3 of them with a reference back to 1 if you can find it. There is just too much missing from this book to be of value.

The fact that this is one of the top-ranking books on Amazon for Spring is indicative of a broader necrosis in Java-centric technical writing and (in my opinion) the failings of the technology as a whole. In this text we have what appears to be someone's lecture outlines from a CS class, with no explanation, error-ridden code, and no context. Even by following the code examples by rote one cannot drive any useful information from this text because it's never clear WHY things work the way it suggests they do. An example from near the beginning of the text: "@Qualifier This annotation can be applied to classes, methods, fields, constructors and parameters of a bean class to allow for great control in using the correct reference types. The following example demonstrates the use of the @Qualifier annotation. In this example, the @Qualifier annotation is applied to the member of a class." Followed by a single code example of a partial class, wherein the @Qualifier annotation is tossed onto one of the class's members, with no explanation as to why or what the annotation is actually doing there. Horrendous. This is a very poor book and I would strongly recommend avoiding it.

I think is a good book with clear and basics examples. a downside is that we need send a email to get a copy of the sources. Maybe it need a complete big example. the book is very practical and useful.

This is an all-out to the point practical references how you can just pick up on a certain are of Spring Framework and get going. I am big fan of more hands on and less jargon when it comes to programming. And I find this book is more pertinent to my test. Not only this book is hands-on but also its examples are very easy to grasp and practical. The example figures are very intuitive and depict a clear representation of the concepts. One thing I would request to author is to mavenize examples. At the end I would recommend this book as a good reference for an entry level programmer as well as experts.

This book is a totally developer's book. Around 90% of the book contains nothing but sample source code. There is no insight into Spring architecture or any real world scenarios. To make matters worse, in the Kindle version of this book I bought, the font for source code is same as the font for the main text, which makes it a hard read. Having said this, I must admit that for $10, this is a good buy. It has lots of samples that you can copy paste and play around with. The book covers many of the capabilities of Spring and will serve well as a good starting point (or even a quick refresher).

Ho cominciato la lettura, il libro è basato su esempi semplici che spiegano bene la funzionalità speigata. Il font è ben leggibile così come i listati

O livro é bem completo é muito prático, o autor vai direto ao ponto, explica o principal e já parte pra implementação, livro muito bom recomendo!

what is the use of @Qualifier annotation? in Page 40 author use @Qualifier annotation. @Qualifier("stockDAO") private StockQuotoDAO stockQuotoDAO; in page41 applicationContext.xml He didn't specify the bean with the name stockDAO. if beginners follow this book definitely they will get error an confusion. Srinivas, please correct the error and republish. thanks

Thank you. Great examples.

Dieses Buch reißt alle Bereiche von Spring an und vermittelt anhand von vollständigen und leicht verständlichen Beispielen ein solides Grundwissen. Das Buch ist leicht zu lesen und kann auch zum Nachschlagen verwendet werden.