Spring Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach: A Problem-solution Approach (Recipes: A Problem-solution Approach) |
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Gary Mak
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Pages: 752 (Paperback)
ISBN: 1590599799
Pub: APRESS
Pub date: 2008-06-16
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 42027
Reader Reviews:
Bang up to date with 147 golden nuggets of information (2/2 people found this helpful)
My prediction is this is destined to be a bestseller. Worth it's weight in gold. Gary Mak has created the best book giving a thorough overview of Spring to date. It's up to date with coverage of Spring 2.5. It stands head and shoulders above any of the other Spring books in the marketplace. Spring in Action 2nd edition, comes second in my opinion for an overview, Pro Spring/Java Development with Spring is third equal. These last two are looking dated though.
For me what distinguished this book from those is you come away armed with the knowledge of how to exploit Spring fully. You don't get a fragmented understanding of the underbelly of Spring and its technologies. You come away with a sense of knowing how to put it all together to utilise Spring commercially.
The book is comprised of 147 examples spanning nineteen chapters. Each chapters introduced a domain subject area and is expanded upon over the chapter. The format follows the layout of "Problem", "Solution", "How it Works". And each chapter wraps up with a "summary".
For me it's a winning formula and I wish all computer books followed this format. It's packed full of useful examples that can be lifted and applied to real world applications. The best way to learn. It's up to date in it's use of the latest Java syntax such as generics and varargs.
The domain examples are quite substantial and the book will make for an excellent reference.
It's unique selling point include:
1) Coverage of XFire in the web services chapter 16. Not mentioned in the introduction!
2) Coverage of Spring Portlet MVC.
3) Excellent coverage of Spring with JSF.
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For anyone wanting to learn Spring I'd recommend this book first, and follow it up with David Whitehurt's E-Book Appfuse Primer published by SourceBeat. This will give you a more meaty full blown example showing how to integrate Spring with a myriad of other technologies. Not quite so up to date as this.
Then follow up with Apress's Spring MVC & Webflow (Ignore the last two chapters on Webflow). Then follow up with Erwin Vervaet's Working with Spring Webflow. (V1 unfortunately. He's got a new book in pipeline by Apress The Definitive Guide to Spring Web Flow that will be V2. Can't wait to see that. But he's another excellent author to learn from. Gives you excellent architectural overview in his first book).
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