Pro Spring 2.5 (ISBN 1590599217) Book Reviews 1-5 Sorted By Most Recent, at VeryWellSaid.com

not so good

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.

(Review Data Last Updated: 2009-01-02 08:33:38 EST)

12-05-08

1\1

Disappointing

I found this book to be rather confusing. The relevant parts for my needs seem to be as inadequately expressed as the same material on the Spring web site. I was hoping to find a book that provided clarity instead of more confusion. The best use of this book would be as a source of different perspectives on specific topics you're reading about in another book.

(Review Data Last Updated: 2008-12-17 08:43:24 EST)

10-18-08

6\6

A Poorly Written Spring Book

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.

(Review Data Last Updated: 2008-12-07 05:30:38 EST)

10-18-08

4\4

A Poorly Written Spring Book

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).

I definitely won't buy Pro Spring 3.0 from the same authors.

(Review Data Last Updated: 2008-11-08 06:25:47 EST)

09-22-08

1\7

Ok Book...