Spring in Action [Paperback]

Craig Walls (Author), Ryan Breidenbach (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 23, 2007

Spring in Action 2E is an expanded, completely updated second edition of the best selling Spring in Action. Written by Craig Walls, one of Manning's best writers, this book covers the exciting new features of Spring 2.0, which was released in October 2006.

Spring is a lightweight container framework that represents an exciting way to build enterprise components with simple Java objects. By employing dependency injection and AOP, Spring encourages loosely coupled code and enables plain-old Java objects with capabilities that were previously reserved for EJBs. This book is a hands-on, example-driven exploration of the Spring Framework. Combining short code snippets and an ongoing example developed throughout the book, it shows readers how to build simple and efficient J2EE applications, how to solve persistence problems, handle asynchronous messaging, create and consume remote services, build web applications, and integrate with most popular web frameworks. Readers will learn how to use Spring to write simpler, easier to maintain code so they can focus on what really matters-- critical business needs.

Spring in Action, 2E is for Java developers who are looking for ways to build enterprise-grade applications based on simple Java objects, without resorting to more complex and invasive EJBs. Even hard-core EJB users will find this book valuable as Spring in Action, 2E will describe ways to use EJB components alongside Spring. Software architects will also find Spring in Action, 2E useful as they assess and apply lightweight techniques prescribed by Spring. and learn how Spring can be applied at the various layers of enterprise applications.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Craig Walls is a professional software developer with over 15 years of experience in several industries, including telecommunications, finance, retail, and education. He's currently the software developer at SpringSource. He is the author of Spring in Action and XDoclet in Action (published by Manning) and is an avid proponent of Spring, open-source, and agile development. He's a popular author and a frequent speaker at user groups and conferences. Craig lives in Plano, Texas.

Breidenbach has developed Java web applications for the past five years.

Product Details

• Paperback: 650 pages
• Publisher: Manning Publications; Second Edition edition (August 23, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1933988134
• ISBN-13: 978-1933988139
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (44 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #63,653 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good Attempt - Needs work, March 11, 2008

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Mr. Mark A. Glass "javageek" (Poughkeepsie, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Spring in Action (Paperback)

I purchased this book to learn Spring. I was looking for a book that would plainly explain the reason for Spring, its benefit as a framework and provide clear examples of how to implement Spring in my projects.

The authors do a satisfactory job explaining the need for Spring, it's history and its impact on alleviating code-dependencies. The examples are simple and easy to understand, overall. The authors fail, however, to clearly demonstrate how Spring is implemented. The examples are verbose with partial file listings. For example, I would like to know more about the framework context. The authors show snippets of XML code but do not show entire files or adequately explain how the files are related to the framework. The source code example is incomplete. Its missing dependencies and there is no explanation what they may be. I spent 30 mins searching then gave up.

"Spring in Action" discusses implementing Spring with Struts, iBatis, Hibernate and some other frameworks in a failrly detailed manner.

Overall I would say the book is OK but not concise.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Applause, July 7, 2010

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Ortega y Gasset - See all my reviews

This review is from: Spring in Action (Paperback)

(Sorry for my english, I'm spanish)

After reading not just a few scientific books, I must say that I find a real pleasure to learn with this one.

It has the perfect pace while going into depth. Also, it has lots of short and easy to understand examples.

It's so well written, I mean, a decent journalist in the culture section of a newspaper would like to have some of Craig Walls skills.

I don't want to reveal much of the content, but I must say that many of the examples are thouhgt with a lot of imagination, sense of humor and pedadogy. I've found myself laughing a few sometimes with those examples... what a great way to learn.

Good job Craig.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Don't buy this book - Get the 3rd Edition!!, May 3, 2011

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J. Braun (New England, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Spring in Action (Paperback)

While this is a pretty good book with a few irritations (of which no technical book lacks) you should not buy this book unless you have legacy code to support. The 3rd edition is just being released as I speak. I bought the 2nd edition not knowing that the new edition was in the wings. I won't die but I wish I had known.