Building Spring 2 Enterprise Applications [Paperback]

Interface21 (Author), Bram Smeets (Author), Seth Ladd (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1590599187 | ISBN-13: 978-1590599181 | Publication Date: August 27, 2007 | Edition: 1

The open source agile lightweight Spring (meta) Framework 2.x is by far the leading innovative force and “lightning rod” that’s driving today’s Java industry.

Spring has time and time again proven itself in real-world highly scalable enterprise settings such as banks and other financial institutions. These institutions, along with grid and other traditional Java vendors that supports them, are looking at Spring first, and have all but forgotten Java EE/J2EE.

Building Spring 2 Enterprise Applications by Interface21/Spring Foundation team members by lets the reader experience a real-world scalable agile enterprise Java-based application being built from the ground up using the latest as available in the latest Spring 2.x.

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About the Author

Interface21 is a privately held international company made up of consultants who build, use and train for the most popular application framework in the world. Springframework.com is operated by Interface21 Limited, a privately owned company. The developers that brought you the Spring framework also provide training, consulting and support. We also have partnerships in Europe and North America. We partner with companies that value a high quality of service, and have experience with Spring. We also have partnerships with developers who deliver .NET services. We want to be your first partner for enterprise development.

Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Apress; 1 edition (August 27, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1590599187
• ISBN-13: 978-1590599181
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,141,834 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Where's the Beef?, September 1, 2008

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bub hub - See all my reviews

This review is from: Building Spring 2 Enterprise Applications (Paperback)

I expected much more from Interface21 (now SpringSource), the developers of Spring. There is a good discussion on architecture and separation of concerns via dependency injection. There is also a good introduction to Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP). Too much space is dedicated to Spring MVC which is probably the weakest and least popular part of the Spring framework.

Integration with ORMs like Hibernate and iBatis is mentioned in passing, but there are no concrete examples. There is very little in the way of explaining integration with other web tier frameworks such as Struts, WebWork, Tapestry, etc. Given that Spring is supposedly lightweight and not intrusive,integration with other frameworks should be covered in depth. No mention of common issues like trying to inject a Spring bean into a Servlet.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Super introduction to Spring2 Framework, October 27, 2007

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Anon - See all my reviews

This review is from: Building Spring 2 Enterprise Applications (Paperback)

This book does a fantastic job introducing the reader to the main benefits of using Spring2.

For all the key features, such as Dependency Injection, AOP, simplified Data Access, cross cutting concerns such as Transactioning, and templates for easy integration of other popular open source frameworks, the authors first cover the problem space itself, then the easy to understand Spring solutions, than any gotchas or caveats related to coding your specific Spring based solutions.

Excellent book at just the right level of detail.
Simplifies key points without forcing user to slog through the lengthy reference guide, or some of the longer Spring books available.

After reading the book, the authors correctly recommend checking out the open source code which implements Spring framework to get further confidence and knowledge of how the magic works. I have also been pleased with responsiveness of springframework.org's support forum since reading the book.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellently Written, March 15, 2008

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tilis - See all my reviews

This review is from: Building Spring 2 Enterprise Applications (Paperback)

This book was exactly what I was looking for - short (300+ pages), covers several areas in both a concise and easily understandable manner. What I was looking for was a more in-depth explanation of configuring the applicationContext.xml, which I felt the authors covered well. The bonus was an excellent introduction to Spring AOP. I didn't really buy the book for that purpose, but the AOP introduction gave me enough footing to feel like I can begin introducing its concepts into my projects.