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Professional Java Development with the Spring Framework (Paperback)

by Rod Johnson (Author), Juergen Hoeller (Author), Alef Arendsen (Author), Thomas Risberg (Author), Colin Sampaleanu (Author) "The Spring Framework is an open source application framework that aims to make J2EE development easier ..." (more)

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Paperback: 672 pages
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (8 Jul 2005)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0764574833
ISBN-13: 978-0764574832
Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 18.8 x 3.8 cm

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The Spring Framework is a major open source application development framework that makes Java/J2EE(TM) development easier and more productive. This book shows you not only what Spring can do but why, explaining its functionality and motivation to help you use all parts of the framework to develop successful applications.

You will be guided through all the Spring features and see how they form a coherent whole. In turn, this will help you understand the rationale for Spring′s approach, when to use Spring, and how to follow best practices. All this is illustrated with a complete sample application. When you finish the book, you will be well equipped to use Spring effectively in everything from simple Web applications to complex enterprise applications.

What you will learn from this book
∗ The core Inversion of Control container and the concept of Dependency Injection
∗ Spring′s Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) framework and why AOP is important in J2EE development
∗ How to use Spring′s programmatic and declarative transaction management services effectively
∗ Ways to access data using Spring′s JDBC functionality, iBATIS SQL Maps, Hibernate, and other O/R mapping frameworks
∗ Spring services for accessing and implementing EJBs
∗ Spring′s remoting framework

Who this book is for

This book is for Java/J2EE architects and developers who want to gain a deeper knowledge of the Spring Framework and use it effectively.

Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real–world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.

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The Spring Framework is a major open source application development framework that makes Java/J2EE™ development easier and more productive. This book shows you not only what Spring can do but why, explaining its functionality and motivation to help you use all parts of the framework to develop successful applications.

You will be guided through all the Spring features and see how they form a coherent whole. In turn, this will help you understand the rationale for Spring′s approach, when to use Spring, and how to follow best practices. All this is illustrated with a complete sample application. When you finish the book, you will be well equipped to use Spring effectively in everything from simple Web applications to complex enterprise applications.

What you will learn from this book

The core Inversion of Control container and the concept of Dependency Injection
Spring′s Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) framework and why AOP is important in J2EE development
How to use Spring′s programmatic and declarative transaction management services effectively
Ways to access data using Spring′s JDBC functionality, iBATIS SQL Maps, Hibernate, and other O/R mapping frameworks
Spring services for accessing and implementing EJBs
Spring′s remoting framework

Who this book is for

This book is for Java/J2EE architects and developers who want to gain a deeper knowledge of the Spring Framework and use it effectively.

Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real–world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Confusing and difficult to read., 30 Sep 2006

By	Spring User "Spring Time" (London, UK) - See all my reviews

This book is not an easy read...Spring has a steep learning curve but this book doesn't help. Mistakes in the examples, constant overuse of "we will get to this later" and "remember what we did in chapter x" will have you flicking through the book like a maniac. Its not always clear into which contexts (xmls) examples should be placed. Plus you have to read tonnes of "this is why this feature is the best in the world" sales pitch before actually being able to use it. Spring itself is an excellent framework, however this book needs to be worked on a bit. You can mostly get all this information from the Spring Docs on-line or in PDF... save the money or find an alternative.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Essential but difficult reading, 29 May 2008

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This is an essential book and Spring is an amazing framework - Rod is truly 'Rod the God'. However, this is a difficult book which does not explain things simply - it hits you with the facts and doesn't always explain just how useful the feature is. Spring is also very expansive and Rod has a tendency to blow the mind of us mere mortals.

The book is a useful reference but as a tutorial is hard going. The other frustrating thing about this book is the poor index.

"Spring in Action" is a lot more user-friendly and readable while still covering the detail. "Spring - a Developer's Notebook" is a very good book for getting up and running quickly and cutting through the complexity. Really you need all three of these books to learn Spring. It is really worth it though - it saves you a lot of time, coding and bugs in the long run.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A must buy for any Spring developer, 2 Aug 2005

By	S. McArdle (Spain) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

My first introduction to Spring was like many other peoples introduction, through Rods earlier books on J2EE programming. I have always been a fan of Rods writing since working with him for a short while in London on a financial project. During this time he introduced me to the concept of AOP and we had several technical discussions on this and ORM's, specifically hibernate. So when this book was announced I put in my advanced order and waited, and waited, and waited... Well the wait was worth it.

This book is now one of my main reference guides and most of the pages are already dog eared from use. As a consultant I have in recent projects exploited all opportunities to introduce the Spring Framework where I can. This hasn't always been easy as most large organisations seem to resist open source projects in general and new open source projects in particular, opting for expensive COTS products and the perception that they have somebody to hold accountable. But once I get the chance to bring Spring in, there is no looking back, I have even introduced it into one project through stealth after an initial management negative reception under the context of it being just another jar file (not a framework) like all the other jars we use in our project and management then just don't seem to care. The benefits become apparent almost from day zero which then encourages other team members and other teams to Spring (pun intended) to life. This book has opened up some new avenues of Spring use to me through its content, ideas and the newer 1.2 features available. I would recommend and encourage everybody with an interest in the Spring Framework to buy this book and read it from cover to cover. If I had one criticism regarding this book it would the index from which I seem to have difficulty finding what I want.

Great job guys, and I am looking forward to the 1.3 release.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Worst book I have read
This book is very difficult to read. The concepts are not clearly explained. The book is poorly organized.
For a newbie to Spring this book is an absolute no no. Read more

Published 11 months ago by Neraj Sharma

4.0 out of 5 stars Good in places. Still has some unique selling points.
I concur with some of the other comments about this book being hard to read. At least in places. I think the chapter on AOP was awful. Too much incoherent waffle. Read more

Published 15 months ago by Mr. Jeremy Flowers

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