Beginning Spring 2: From Novice to Professional (Beginning: From Novice to Professional) [Paperback]

Dave Minter (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 18, 2007 | ISBN-10: 1590596854 | ISBN-13: 978-1590596852 | Edition: 1

The Spring Framework continues to make a remarkable rise in popularity since its conception in 2002. Many users have found the new agile lightweight, open source Spring Framework 2.x ideal for building complex enterprise or Java Enterprise Edition (EE)-based applications in their environments.

Building Spring 2 Enterprise Applications takes developers through the first steps of using Spring whilst discussing the relevant technologies that Spring can be integrated with, what to be aware of and how working with Spring makes them easier to use. This book focuses on the most useful features of Spring, including persistence and transaction management as well as the complete Spring web tools portfolio, and also introduces 3-tier application design and how to test these designs.

Additionally, this book provides a broad insight into Spring’s enterprise Java-based technologies, whilst showing how to use Spring correctly in applications which lowers the enterprise Java learning curve. Using less complex alternatives wherever possible, this book describes how Spring can make Java developers more productive in often complicated enterprise environments.

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About the Author

Dave Minter has adored computers since he was small enough to play in the boxes they came in. He built his first PC from discarded, faulty, and obsolete components, and considers that to be the foundation of his career as an integration consultant. Dave is based in London, where he helps large and small companies build systems that "just work." He co-authored Building Portals with the Java Portlet API and Pro Hibernate 3.

Product Details

• Paperback: 271 pages
• Publisher: Apress; 1 edition (December 18, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1590596854
• ISBN-13: 978-1590596852
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #978,526 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not appropriate for Beginners, March 28, 2008

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J. Robinson "java evangelist" (Laurel, MD USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Beginning Spring 2: From Novice to Professional (Beginning: From Novice to Professional) (Paperback)

How can this be the first & only Spring authorized book?

When I brought this book I was totally new to Spring but I needed to learn it since our project was mandated to use it. Even after reading the first three chapters (which the author states is required reading), I still couldn't quite get it. First, the author spends too much time in chapters 1 and 2 singing the praises of Spring and doesn't even present a standard "Hello World" solution. Finally in chapter 3 he does start getting into code but its rather convoluted and is only meant to show how/why the Spring Framework saves time versus doing things the usual way.

I finally gave up and went and purchased the "Spring in Action" book by Craig Walls which is excellent for the beginner and even presents a relevent & simple code example from the get-go in Chapter 1. The Walls book is what the beginner needs ad explains every concept from both a historical and relevant use point-of-view.

Now that I've been using Spring for a while, I can say that Minter's book is appropriate only if you already know the fundamentals and want to use it for quick reference (which I do) in its later chapters. But don't buy it expecting any "hand-holding" on your journey to master the Spring Framework.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not so "Beginning", November 20, 2008

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E. Nathaniel - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Beginning Spring 2: From Novice to Professional (Beginning: From Novice to Professional) (Paperback)

I agree with the first commenter. The author shows small snippets of code here and there right after his explanation. But those code are just... snippets.

Do not expect a tutorial-style build a simple project from scratch type of book. The best thing you can do is to download the code example and pray if you can run it.

I understand that Spring isn't a framework specifically for web-app (thus no Hello World example), but let's face it, how many projects are using Spring and not web-app related?

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Terrible Book, March 4, 2009

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hacktorious "hacktorious" (VA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Beginning Spring 2: From Novice to Professional (Beginning: From Novice to Professional) (Paperback)

This is the worst book I have ever spent money on. I completely agree with the first two reviews. Don't waste your time or money on this book. Get Spring in Action, or a different one.