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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.

Average Customer Rating:

A Poorly Written Spring Book

Customer Rating:

This is the worst Spring book I have read so far. The other books I have read on Spring are Spring in Action 2nd Edition and Spring Recipes. If you want to learn Spring, Spring in Action 2nd Edition is more readable and easier to understand. If you need a Spring reference book, Spring Recipes is far more comprehensive. There are also many information gaps in this book, readers will need to consult SpringSource documentation from time to time when reading this book. E.g., in chapter 17 Spring MVC, there is no description as where to put the context definitions (by default, if the DispactcherServlet is named xyz in web.xml, Spring will look for the associated context definition file at /WEB-INF/xyz-servlet.xml). Either accidentally or deliberately, the authors seems to shy away from covering Spring's support for non-SE Java EE technologies such as JNDI, JMS, JPA, JSF, EJB2, or EJB3 annotations such as @Resource. The only EE technologies covered are JTA (via Spring transaction management) and Servlet (via Spring MVC). Even with many information gaps and many subjects not covered, the book is still bloated to over 900 pages with a lot of confusing and useless text. I definitely won't buy Pro Spring 3.0 from the same authors.

Ok Book...	Customer Rating:
I was really looking for help with Spring Web Services and Security. This book was very light on both subjects. Good overall knowledge but not a get down and dirty book. Nohacks