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Spring in Action (In Action series)
Craig Walls, Ryan Breidenbach Average Rating: 
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2008-12-25The Spring Framework comes with some good doccumentation, 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 isnt in the free doccumentation, which is a bit more detailled 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 The biggest issue at the time of the writing of this review is that the book is outdated: The examples may still work, but e.g. Spring MVC has some substatial simplifications in Spring 2.5, and Spring 3.0 is not far off, either, so I'd wait for the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.
2008-12-14I bought this primarly to know about Dependency Injection and the book explains it clearly and in a easy to understand way with test cases and code snippets.
2008-12-08I bought this book because my Java teacher told me so. I usualy read a lot of reviews before buy some technical book. This one wasnt 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 intergration but the chapter begins with "Imagine that before you had ever heard of Spring, you had already developped the RoadRantz aplication using JSF in the web layer." Well, is easy to see that I didnt developped the "RoadRantz" aplication 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.
2008-10-22Overall, Spring in Action (SIA) is an excelllent book, well worth buying. Here are my impressions after having studied (in a group) severeal 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 consepts 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 excelllent Code" by Pete Goodliffe (Publisher: No Starch Press), which, by the way, is another emminently readable, usefull book. This is in stark contrast with the book "eclispe Distilled" by David Carlson (Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional). While the content quality of "eclispe 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 "eclispe 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, excellls in this respect.
- The basics are covered very well -- Dependency Injection and AOP, solving persistance 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 excelllent tutorial that's worth studing and owning -- SIA is not emminently suitable as a refference. But for that we can always go to the ubiquitious online Spring API.
2008-10-17I'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 actualy use Spring. The code I downloaded from the book's web site is largely incoherent and undoccumented.
I did manage to find severeal online tutorials that have been a lot more help. I recomend finding one that you like before attemting to wade past the first four chapters.
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