Beginning Spring Framework 2

by Thomas Van de Velde, Bruce Snyder, Christian Dupuis

"Beginning Spring Framework 2" shows beginning Java developers how to build serverside Java applications using the latest 2.0 release of the Spring Framework. The book does not assume any previous knowledge of J2EE in fact, the authors argue that beginners learn more quickly by starting directly with Spring. The authors show readers how to build a working web application using Spring with other open source tools and technologies, all of which can be freely downloaded and installed via the Internet. Each chapter builds a portion of the application. All the Spring concepts and construction techniques are introduced during the design and coding of this application. (With minor adaptation, the resulting code can be re-used by readers in their own working applications.)

500 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2008

Reviews

[Sulava Singha · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book is an average book for beginners since the examples are not so good and they have used obsolete jars. So you really can't practice the examples. For the matter of fact to learn any framework we really need to practice it and have our own examples so concept wise you can read it! but there are lot of better books to learn Spring than this one. Initially when I started this book I was really looking for some examples in Core, MVC and JDBC. The JDBC part is not so well explained in this book and I wanted to learn the xml based dependency injection, even that is not so nicely explained. Anyway it depends on the reader what he/she is looking for. For me this book didn't work so well. I always look for example driven approach where Lab is more and theory is less however nicely explained a more of practical guide. This book is definitely not going to give you a practical overview of the framework.