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Expert Spring MVC and Web Flow
Seth Ladd, Darren Davison, Steven Devijver, Colin Yates Average Rating: 
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2008-08-04I bought this book with the hope of getting a better idea of how I should build the Web Flow flows in my Grails ( [...]) aplication. I know it is my own fault, and that I should have more carefully read the excelllent reviews of this book, but I was a little disappointed to dicover Web Flow was the topic in just two of twelve chapters when it is aproximately 50% of the book's title.
If anyone knows a good source of refference on how to design Web Flow flows so that my web app has a nice natural user experience (e.g. able to use the browser 'back' button having gone though a flow's end state without getting in a mess) then please let me know. I want to aim for the sort of experience I have when using the amazon dot com shopping cart, not the sort of experience I have when using an ERP solution. So far with Web Flow my efforts have tended towards ERP quality :(
2008-06-09The book was great pre-release book, but like most programming books for specific frameworks becomes almost useless within a few months
2008-01-26I completely agree with the reviewer who points out how almost chaotically the information is delivered in this book - for the most part. generaly, you need to skip from section to section and back a few times before you can get all the peices together. That's unacceptible. It's impossable to use this book as a conveinent refference since each example generaly provides only partial answers, and you have to scan back and forth through the pages to look for the clarification on the missing peices. Often, the coverage is quite superficial. The offical Spring refference Guide on the Spring site does not get into too much detail on Spring MVC, leaving out lots of important and intresting details. Nevertheless, much more - and better - information is indeed avaliable on-line today - at no cost. I haven't yet seen a perfect one-stop source for Spring MVC, but this book is definately a waste of money. It may have been okay a couple of years ago when much less info was avaliable online, but certainly not today.
The only part of this book that is very well written is the chapters on Spring Web Flow. Indeed, it appears that the chapters were written by someone other than the authors of the rest of the book. Someone who understood and apprieciated the importance of a very thoughtfully organized FLOW of any sequence of logical steps, be it a software aplication, or a flow of information such as an instructions manual, or a tutorial. That's why Colin Yates, the aparent main contributer to Chapters 11 and 12 (on Spring Web Flow), does a much better job than the rest of the authors. Unfortunately, those Web Flow chapters are largely obsolete today. Some code in the book won't work. You'll imediately see that the classes in the org.springframework.webflow.test package you get with your latest Webflow distribution differ from the ones used in the book's examples. What's even worse is that the flow configuration XML files in the examples aparently use the old/obsolete XML schema. That means you shouldnt use them as examples for your own code. Just compare the code from the latest Spring [on-line] refference Guide and the examples in the book and you will instantly see the difference.
For a very good introduction to Spring Web Flow, see the Spring refference Guide (http://static.springframework.org/spring-webflow/docs/1.0.x/refference/introduction.html) and the artical by the author of Spring Web Flow at http://www.ervacon.com/products/swf/intro/index.html, which is excelllent.
Do not waste money on this book! Honestly. ;)
2007-10-17The book provides really good information and I was able to build out an aplication after reading it. The only problem is the editing and I hope a 2nd edition is released with fixes and updates for Spring 2.0. There are good PDF presentations out there that give a quick overview and one good tutorial that's a working example. I would google for those and read them alongside with this book.
2007-09-27As computer books continue their never ending slide into the abyss, Apress and Manning seem to be leading the way. This book is one of the best works of fiction ever written. From incomplete and non-working examples to the many errors, the publishers would be better served by pulling this tome off the market and starting over. There is nothing "expert" in this text nor is there anything the least bit helpfull. Well, ok, I will admit the UML diagrams are nice.
Avoid this book at all costs.
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| Editorial Review |
Expert Spring MVC and Web Flows shows you how to use the Spring web application development framework, part of the Spring Framework. This book covers Spring's Model-View-Controller (MVC) code packages, HTTP, best practices for web application development, and integration with popular third-party utilities. Also featured is the new Spring Web Flow system, a cutting-edge workflow system introduced in Spring 1.3. The Web Flow system provides the perfect complement to the existing MVC system, rounding out Spring's robust and powerful web development framework.
This book is a must-read for anyone desiring to bridge the gap between the most popular web framework and the most popular application framework. The book pays special attention to existing Apache Struts?based web applications. It explains different options for integrating Struts code to take advantage of the powerful Spring Framework. Authors Seth Ladd and Keith Donald develop a sample application over the course of the book and build on the application as a method for introducing new material. Further, they provide a porting guide detailing how to port a Struts application into Spring MVC.
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