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 A JSF web developer's perspective September 16, 2008
Damodar Chetty (Minnesota, US [www.swengsol.com])
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
I used this book as a quick reference to Spring 2.5 for use on a recent JSF project, and was thrilled at how easy it was to find exactly the information that I was looking for.
With JSF and the application context being my focus, I only read about a third of the book (chapters 1 through 4, 10 and 11).
These chapters detailed exactly what I needed to do to get Spring 2.x up and running with JSF, including how to use it instead of the JSF managed bean creation facility, and how to unlock the request/session scopes.
The chapter on the advanced features of the Spring container is particularly interesting as it clearly portrays the number of ways Spring can instantiate a bean (viz., using a constructor, a static factory method, an instance factory method, from a static field, from an object property, or a factory bean.) Also noteworthy are the Java equivalents that are provided for each of these instantiation methods, making understanding the differences a no-brainer.
There's also a wealth of information on multiple approaches to achieving the same goal (e.g., injecting references using the ref element, using ref attribute of a property element, or using the p schema), with clear indications as to why one might be preferable over the others.
Really stretching for a con here - the recipe approach felt a bit contrived and unnecessary. However, the quality of the writing is beyond reproach, and more than made up for any discomfort I had with the topic structure.
Simple THE BEST October 16, 2008
Abu al-Sous (Arlington Heights, IL United States)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Rarely I write review, however, in this case I will make an exception.
By far this is the best book about Spring you will every read.
VERY easy to read. It is well structured as questions and answers, I am really amazed how detailed it is.
Of course the author(s) did not cover 100% of the Sprint Framework, but by far they have covered it better than anybody else.
For example, AOP, JDBC Templates, Hibernate Templates, JMS Templates, Quartz, Spring WebFlow, Testing, configuring web applications with JPA and Hibernate, Transactions, ...etc have been covered way beyond the basics. So this book along with its code which you can download should get you up and running very quickly.
One thing I wish if it was covered: RUN AS Manager in Spring's Security, and by far that presentation about Security is much more complete than any I have read before.
I give it 5 starts, good job. In the future, I wish the next version will elaborate furthur on Spring Security, and more complex examples on one to many relationships with JBA and Hibernate.
Abu al-Sous
Chicago, IL
complete and concise July 19, 2008
Ramin (VA USA)
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
Congratulations to Gary. He has done what lots of authors tried and failed. This is at the moment the best spring 2.x book available. Well-structured, concise and complete. It builds up excellently and takes you from start to finish. What I enjoy the most about this book is that it shows the necessary steps for integrating spring with other high profile open source frameworks and concepts. It is not dry as a reference manual while doesn't try to be funny which is the trick used by some authors as filler.
Very useful book for learning Spring 2.5 April 11, 2009
Y. Vance (GA USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I am a Java web developer for a few years. Spring Framework is new to me. I bought this book after reading others reviews. I found the best feature of this book is independent examples in each chapter. Spring has lots frameworks and what I need is web application pieces. The book allows me to pick what needs to read. It begins with a new example in a chapter. One main good thing about this book is that its Tip always reminders me of where to find required jars/soruce files from downloaded spring packages without mistakes, so that I would not get lost while following the examples.
If you have some experience in web Java and want to learn Spring Framework, it is a good book I would recommand.
Kathy
Outstanding August 15, 2009
Taruvai Subramaniam (Troy, MI USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is THE book you should own if you are using Spring. It is organized as cookbook. I refer to it all the time. Very thorough and complete. Of course if you want a good introduction you should read Craig Walls book on Spring If you want to use Spring Web Services or Spring Security in a more than elementary way read the respective reference manuals.
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