Spring a Developer's Notebook

by Bruce Tate, Justin Gehtland, Bruce A. Tate, et al.

Since development first began on Spring in 2003, there's been a constant buzz about it in Java development publications and corporate IT departments. The reason is clear: Spring is a lightweight Java... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0596009100
• ISBN13: 9780596009106
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.0" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

This book is an excellent start to Spring - don't listen to the others!

I got the first edition of this book in late 2006, and spent 2 days working through it, while at the same time building up a test Spring application. Anyone here who says they can't get the code running or even compiling is showing their general incompetence as a developer, as opposed to the quality of the book. From start to finish, I did not have an issue with getting the examples working - and this was all done without an internet connection. The so called litany of errors is all a load of hot air. If you are the sort of developer who likes to copy and paste code and *pretend* that you know a topic, then you should not get this book OR any of the other books in this series. On the other hand, if you are a competent developer who has used open source Java projects before, then you will not have a problem. That is, if you can think for yourself there will not be a problem. The book is excellent for covering all the topics you need to know to get up and running with Spring - annotations, transactions, ORM ibatis/Hibernate mappings, mail, Spring MVC and a great description of exactly what Inversion of Control/Dependency Injection actually is. Two thumbs up!

Only way to learn fast

Yes I agree with the other reviewers but not 100%.I also accept those errors which probably Author/Orielly can come up with errata.I will say if you want to learn spring and need a book like 10 minutes guide then you should have this book. It is not really as bad as other reviewers mentioned.I think Tate did the right job but forgot to get help of good proof readers. I do have other books ,but im tried when they explain all the concepts for MVC and I saw a book which tries to explain Dependency Injection too verbose and sometime confusing.In this book you will see the code based approach to explain everything.Thats what a programmer wants. Have this to get kick start and keep Java Development with Spring Framework as a bible.

Answer's the "What can Spring do for me?" question...

I liked this book. It provides you with all the information necessary - without any useless filler - to write an application using the Spring Framework. It's like the ubiquitous "Hello, World" application on steroids. The authors do a good job at covering quite a number of different technologies, designs, frameworks, and patterns that can/do/should/could make use of the Spring framework. The book spends a lot of time balancing between the 50,000 foot description and details in source code - and does so surprisingly well, a credit to the authors. I did find myself on Google looking up information on technologies that were unfamiliar to me. The source code available for download includes the IDEA .ipr files (or it did when I downloaded it), so if you're using IDEA, the sample code is just that much easier to load up and go through. You're not going to be a "expert" after reading this book, but it is a great way to introduce yourself to the Spring Framework.