Pro Spring 2.5
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Editorial Reviews:
The Spring Framework 2.5 release reflects the state of the art in both the Spring Framework and enterprise Java frameworks as a whole. A guidebook to this critical tool is necessary reading for any conscientious Java developer.
— Rob Harrop, author of Pro Spring
The move from so–called heavyweight architectures, such as Enterprise JavaBeans, toward lightweight frameworks, like Spring, has not stopped since Pro Spring was published by Rob Harrop and Jan Machacek in 2005; in fact, it’s picked up pace. The Spring Framework remains the leader in this move and provides a platform on which you can build your own applications and services.
Pro Spring 2.5 covers the new features of Spring 2.5, but moreover, it is focused on the best practices and core standards of contemporary Spring development. As members of the Spring development team at Cake Solutions, the author team brings extensive practical experience gained from working with Spring since version 1.0 and delivering successful systems on top of it.
Learn the approaches that really matter in a professional, enterprise–level environment, so you can apply them to your projects today, safe in the knowledge that they just work.
What You’ll Learn
- Discover how to use Spring’s Inversion of Control (IoC).
- Explore Spring’s excellent aspect–oriented programming (AOP) support, including Spring 2.5’s new @AspectJ feature.
- Find out how to use Spring’s dynamic scripting language features, Spring design patterns, and performance tuning in Spring applications.
- Learn what really works in real–world Spring development.
- Understand Spring’s support for the JDBC framework, Hibernate, the Quartz enterprise scheduler, declarative transaction management, and much more.
- Master Spring’s well–designed MVC framework and add AJAX to your Spring web applications to create flexible, efficient, and manageable applications using the best techniques available.
Who is this book for?
Enterprise Java, J2EE/Java EE developers looking to learn and use the Spring metaframework, the now growing, leading alternative to J2EE/Java EE
About the Apress Pro Series
The Apress Pro series books are practical, professional tutorials to keep you on and moving up the professional ladder.
You have gotten the job, now you need to hone your skills in these tough competitive times. The Apress Pro series expands your skills and expertise in exactly the areas you need. Master the content of a Pro book, and you will always be able to get the job done in a professional development project. Written by experts in their field, Pro series books from Apress give you the hard-won solutions to problems you will face in your professional programming career.
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Spotlight customer reviews:
Customer Rating:
Summary: Quite useful
Comment: "Pro Spring 2.5" is the first and the most comprehensive guide to Spring Framework 2.0 and 2.5. released till now. The book can be thought of as a continuation of "Pro Spring" but it is not as good as its predecessor. "Pro Spring 2.5" is still valuable if you plan to learn about Spring Framework as a whole. It has more than 900 pages and touches many topics related to Spring Framework and other technologies, like Spring WebFlow, DWR, AJAX and many more.
Beside presenting Spring basics, the book nicely covers many new features introduced in Spring 2.0 or Spring 2.5 like: dynamic language support, XML Schema-based configuration, Spring TestContext Framework, load-time weaving ,etc.
On the other side, "Pro Spring 2.5" has a dedicated chapters on JAVA EE 5 but it does not cover JMS or EJB at all!
The book is quite easy to read and understand. It provides a good, overall knowledge of nearly all areas of Spring Framework related topics. The weakest point of the book is sample source, since it has many typos and even compilation problems.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Waste of money, poorly written
Comment: I ignored the reviews and decided to purchase this book anyways. What a mistake. The book is poorly written with incomplete examples riddled with errors. I tried downloading the code samples from the web site to follow along and very few worked. Stick to the "..In Action" series. These are written much better, and more reasonably priced. Lessons learned!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Incomplete, but an excellent introduction
Comment: After trying to wrap my head around the online Spring docs, I was about to give up on the whole thing. Then I bought this book, started at chapter one, and just kept reading until it made sense. There are many typos in the code listings that can bite you if you aren't paying attention, and there is definitely stuff I read in the online Spring docs that wasn't in the book (and I think if I hadn't read the online docs first I might have been more frustrated with this book) but overall I am glad I bought it, and I do recommend it.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Was good for its time
Comment: Back when I was first starting out with Spring I wanted to know more than just "How can I make it do this thing that I need right now".
The industry is abuzz with people who are passionate about "dependency injection", "AOP", and "Spring and Hibernate". Rather than just jumping on the bandwagon and picking up the bare necessities required to make my current project work with these trendy technologies, I picked up the most up-to-date references available and read them from end to end.
I think that the authors have done a reasonable job of covering quite a vast subject.
Where I feel this book differs from some others is the depth to which the configuration options are explained, and the care that the authors take in explaining why you might choose one approach over another (e.g. XmL configuration versus annotation based configuration).
Can anyone honestly say that there was a better reference available at the time this work came out?
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Stephen Souness
Customer Rating:
Summary: not so good
Comment: I was trying to use spring hibernate example from this book.
After few days of search on code it could compile.
But the example is still not running. It is just few lines of code.
Technical Details
Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 005.133
EAN: 9781590599211
ISBN: 1590599217
Label: Apress
Manufacturer: Apress
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 920
Publication Date: 2008-08-15
Publisher: Apress
Studio: Apress
