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Pro Spring

Format: Paperback
Author: Rob Harrop
ReleaseDate: 31 January, 2005
Publisher: Apress
Rating:

Good for all Spring topics except for Spring MVC
I picked it up with only a middling understanding of Spring, and I feel comfortable with almost all of the topics. Pro Spring is, for the most part, an easy book to absorb. However, since my background in servlets and jsp is also quite shallow, I found the chapter on Spring MVC to be the exception. The material here was incomplete, as if the authors had not actually written their own Spring-based webapps. I've been forced to supplement it with web documentation and forum posts (a poor substitute).

Despite this criticism, I heartily recommend Pro Spring to anyone who is either already very proficient in writing servlet-based webapps or has absolutely no interest in doing so. If you're interested in web development and you have some money to spare, this is still a good Spring book as long as its not your only Spring book.

This is not for Spring beginners
. This book is not for programmer who needs more exlanation
They tried to explain everything in shot..

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May be the best Spring book, but has ways to go...
That may be true, but that doesn't mean that it is an excellent book. I've heard that this is the best Spring book out thus far. For starters, the authors rely on textual descriptions far too much. Although their descriptions are good, a picture sometimes would really supplement the concept well. There is also some organizational problems. I want to get moving in Spring, but they often show me Spring concepts that hardly anyone is using. It would have been better if they would have saved some of the esoteric Spring features for a separate chapter instead of intermingling it so much with real-world Spring. Although these authors know their stuff, some parts of the book I have to struggle and re-read over to grasp what they are explaining. Finally, I've found a few errors in this book. However there is no published errata on-line that I could easily find, and after being on the market for over a year, I find that lazy. (Note, I did find a place to submit errors but there was no listed errors. ) In closing, this book has helped me with Spring, and I feel that the book could be excellent if the authors fine tune the book.