Spring in Action 2E is an expanded, completely updated second edition of the best selling Spring in Action.

Written by Craig Walls, one of Manning's best writers, this book covers the exciting new features of Spring 2.0, which was released in October 2006.

Spring is a lightweight container framework that represents an exciting way to build enterprise components with simple Java objects. By employing dependency injection and AOP, Spring encourages loosely coupled code and enables plain-old Java objects with capabilities that were previously reserved for EJBs. This book is a hands-on, example-driven exploration of the Spring Framework. Combining short code snippets and an ongoing example developed throughout the book, it shows readers how to build simple and efficient J2EE applications, how to solve persistence problems, handle asynchronous messaging, create and consume remote services, build web applications, and integrate with most popular web frameworks. Readers will learn how to use Spring to write simpler, easier to maintain code so they can focus on what really matters-- critical business needs.

Spring in Action, 2E is for Java developers who are looking for ways to build enterprise-grade applications based on simple Java objects, without resorting to more complex and invasive EJBs. Even hard-core EJB users will find this book valuable as Spring in Action, 2E will describe ways to use EJB components alongside Spring. Software architects will also find Spring in Action, 2E useful as they assess and apply lightweight techniques prescribed by Spring. and learn how Spring can be applied at the various layers of enterprise applications.

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Bets overall introduction to Spring - 2009-08-15
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Best overall introduction to Spring 2.0 and higher. Use it with Gary Mak's Spring Recipes. The chapters on Spring Web Services and Spring Security are alone worth the price of admission.

Very good - 2009-10-14
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This is a very good book. It explains everything from basics..
I really enjoyed reading this book.

Wow - a breath of fresh air - 2009-05-26
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Talk about Injection. This book details how to use it to inject services in your requests. The only way to appreciate spring is if you have implemented or been maintaining code the old way and then see Spring in Action. Its great for injecting anything you can think of in the Application Stack. The only thing I did not appreciate or dont see the need is the Spring MVC but thats my take. I think RIA has Spring eating dust there.

Enjoy.

Excellent book on Spring - 2009-10-20
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This book is very excellent! It covers a lot of aspects of Spring and any programmers with decent java skills can learn a lot. I especially like the humorous approach on the knights and Spring Idol. These are great examples to illustrate Spring to the readers. I wish the author covers more on Hibernate, which the author points to "Hibernate in Action"

Easy to read and very complete - 2009-06-18
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I recently opened this book, not from the beginning but from the MVC chapters, and it's pretty amazing, I already had experience with Spring but lacked the MVC features, and I must say reading this book is pretty straight forward, not boring at all, and besides being a good reference of the MVC components it gives a good insight on how Spring works internally which is a good thing. And add to it the portlet MVC and other free online content, it's a good deal. I can't wait to read it all over.
My impressions after finishing it all
I just finished it from start to end, and still believe it's a good book. Although after reading it all now I believe the web and MVC parts are pretty weak compared to the rest of the book. Chapters on BeanFactory & ApplicationContext behavior are great, also AOP is fine, ORM integration, transaction management, security, remoting, messaging, they are all good. But when I arrived again to MVC controller I felt many of them were missing(you can see spring's online documentation and you will see this) also I feel that needs more examples on this and different view technologies specially JSP. But hey I sure they can make the 3rd edition even better, also don't forget the free online content :D

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