Spring in Action | 
 enlarge | Authors: Craig Walls, Ryan Breidenbach
Publisher: Manning Publications
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Edition: 2
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Pages: 650
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.3 x 1.7
ISBN: 1933988134
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.13
EAN: 9781933988139
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Publication Date: August 16, 2007
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Product Description
Spring in Action 2E is an expanded, completely updated second edition of the best selling Spring in Action. Written by Craig Walls, one of Manning's best writers, this book covers the exciting new features of Spring 2.0, which was released in October 2006. Spring is a lightweight container framework that represents an exciting way to build enterprise components with simple Java objects. By employing dependency injection and AOP, Spring encourages loosely coupled code and enables plain-old Java objects with capabilities that were previously reserved for EJBs. This book is a hands-on, example-driven exploration of the Spring Framework. Combining short code snippets and an ongoing example developed throughout the book, it shows readers how to build simple and efficient J2EE applications, how to solve persistence problems, handle asynchronous messaging, create and consume remote services, build web applications, and integrate with most popular web frameworks. Readers will learn how to use Spring to write simpler, easier to maintain code so they can focus on what really matters-- critical business needs. Spring in Action, 2E is for Java developers who are looking for ways to build enterprise-grade applications based on simple Java objects, without resorting to more complex and invasive EJBs. Even hard-core EJB users will find this book valuable as Spring in Action, 2E will describe ways to use EJB components alongside Spring. Software architects will also find Spring in Action, 2E useful as they assess and apply lightweight techniques prescribed by Spring. and learn how Spring can be applied at the various layers of enterprise applications.
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Spring in Action December 25, 2008
The Spring Framework comes with some good documentation, so what does this book offer beyond that? The examples in this book are a bit more fleshed out (though not to the point where you have pages with nothing but code samples), and there are some forays beyond the core Spring Framework (e.g. Spring Security and Spring Modules). It's well written but don't expect to find much that isn't in the free documentation, which is a bit more detailed in general. The biggest issue at the time of the writing of this review is that the book is outdated: The examples may still work, but e.g. Spring MVC has some substantial simplifications in Spring 2.5, and Spring 3.0 is not far off, either, so I'd wait for the 2nd edition of this book.
 Nice book December 14, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this primarily to know about Dependency Injection and the book explains it clearly and in a easy to understand way with test cases and code snippets.
 This book is good, but it could be better. December 8, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this book because my Java teacher told me so. I usually read a lot of reviews before buy some technical book. This one wasn't the case.
This book is good, a very funny reading, but you must to read most part of it if you want to jump some pages and get a chunk of material in the middle pages. I was searching for Spring and JSF integration but the chapter begins with "Imagine that before you had ever heard of Spring, you had already developed the RoadRantz application using JSF in the web layer." Well, is easy to see that I didn't developed the "RoadRantz" application because I just want to look at JSF and Spring working together.
This book is not good for quick consult. You must read it all. That's why I wrote "it could be better" if the author just give a single example for each chapter instead wire all book's examples up.
An excellent book with a lot going for it! October 22, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Overall, Spring in Action (SIA) is an excellent book, well worth buying. Here are my impressions after having studied (in a group) several portions of the book a little while ago:
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Pros are:
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- SIA contains many memorable source code examples that help the concepts stick in one's mind.
- Very much in the tradition of books from Manning publishers, the print quality is pleasing, and the book lays flat nicely for easy reading. In this aspect, it's right up there with the book "Code Craft: The Practice of Writing Excellent Code" by Pete Goodliffe (Publisher: No Starch Press), which, by the way, is another eminently readable, useful book. This is in stark contrast with the book "Eclipse Distilled" by David Carlson (Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional). While the content quality of "Eclipse Distilled" is very good, the print quality is poor (I'm all for printing on recycled paper, but not on shoddy recycled paper) and the binding inferior -- Try keeping the book "Eclipse Distilled" lying open on a flat surface, and it'll spring [sic - no pun intended in connection with the book I'm reviewing] shut like a steel trap; so much easy reading :-( But SIA is not like that at all and, in sum, excels in this respect.
- The basics are covered very well -- Dependency Injection and AOP, solving persistence problems, handling asynchronous messaging -- It's all in here!
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Cons are:
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- In more places than I care to count, SIA tends to have a rambling style.
- Hand-in-hand with the rambling style -- while an excellent tutorial that's worth studying and owning -- SIA is not eminently suitable as a reference. But for that we can always go to the ubiquitous online Spring API.
 Find examples elsewhere. October 17, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I've managed to get through the first six chapters in two weeks. Although the writing style is readable for a technical book there is a glaring lack of examples other than dangling code snippets that show how to actually use Spring. The code I downloaded from the book's web site is largely incoherent and undocumented.
I did manage to find several online tutorials that have been a lot more help. I recommend finding one that you like before attempting to wade past the first four chapters.
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