A step-by-step pragmatic approach to web application development using Spring MVC, with relevant screenshots and concise explanations. This book is aimed at helping Java developers who want to teach themselves Spring MVC, even if they have no previous experience with Spring MVC. It would be helpful to have a bit of familiarity with basic servlet programming concepts, but no prior experience is required.
A pretty good tutorial about Spring MVC and how to do stuff with it. There is a number of small mistakes and inconsistencies, but nothing hugely unsurmontable if you understand what you're doing. A bit more depth would have been appreciated at some points (for instance the injection mechanisms).
If you want to learn to program web as it should be, using the MVC pattern, there is nothing better to do with Spring MVC. And this book will help.
It is a guide for beginners, for those unfamiliar with Spring MVC. It is very good writing, well explained, and each step is explained what happened.
You will learn to do from a MVC simple application to implement REST. You will also learn to use templates with Apache Tiles, using integrated into Spring unit tests.
You must know something of web java as Servlet and JSP. Everything else Spring MVC will help.