This book is an excellent start to Spring - don't listen to the others!
I got the first edition of this book in late 2006, and spent 2 days working through it, while at the same time building up a test Spring application.
Anyone here who says they can't get the code running or even compiling is showing their general incompetence as a developer, as opposed to the quality of the book.
From start to finish, I did not have an issue with getting the examples working - and this was all done without an internet connection. The so called litany of errors is all a load of hot air.
If you are the sort of developer who likes to copy and paste code and *pretend* that you know a topic, then you should not get this book OR any of the other books in this series.
On the other hand, if you are a competent developer who has used open source Java projects before, then you will not have a problem. That is, if you can think for yourself there will not be a problem.
The book is excellent for covering all the topics you need to know to get up and running with Spring - annotations, transactions, ORM ibatis/Hibernate mappings, mail, Spring MVC and a great description of exactly what Inversion of Control/Dependency Injection actually is. Two thumbs up!
Do NOT buy this book
I read 14 pages and more than half of codes have errors or typos.
I doubt if author understand th contents. He keeps in describing the feeling about programming. he does not explain about what it means, or how it works. Do not buy this book, it is waste of your money and time.
Absolutely dreadful
(Yes, I have the updated version.)
This book was a complete waste of money. I was left feeling strongly that the authors understand neither Spring itself nor the "heavyweight" technologies which they compare it against; many of the statements made about EJB or Struts are simply false.
The book does an exceptionally poor job of explaining how the Spring framework should be used. The examples are not at all clear, and the text often appears to be meaningless. I find it hard to believe this book was reviewed at all.
Safai Tech Books Online has the original printing
After reading these reviews I wasn't going to buy a hard copy of this book not knowing which version I would get. Since I have access to Safari Text Books Online, I thought that this is where it would be easiest for O'Reilly to incorporate the fixes. Sadly, no. You have to click between the page you're on and the errata page (which, if printed, would take 8 pages) to manually incorporate the fixes.
Only way to learn fast
Yes I agree with the other reviewers but not 100%.I also accept those errors which probably Author/Orielly can come up with errata.I will say if you want to learn spring and need a book like 10 minutes guide then you should have this book.
It is not really as bad as other reviewers mentioned.I think Tate did the right job but forgot to get help of good proof readers.
I do have other books ,but im tried when they explain all the concepts for MVC and I saw a book which tries to explain Dependency Injection too verbose and sometime confusing.In this book you will see the code based approach to explain everything.Thats what a programmer wants.
Have this to get kick start and keep Java Development with Spring Framework as a bible.
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