|
Spring Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach: A Problem-solution Approach (Recipes: A Problem-solution Approach) | 
| Author: Gary Mak
Publisher: APRESS
Category: Book
List Price: £30.99
Buy New: £29.44
You Save: £1.55 (5%)
New (32) Used (4) from £24.24
Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 70393
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 752
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.6
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 7 x 1.5
ISBN: 1590599799
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.133
EAN: 9781590599792
ASIN: 1590599799
Publication Date: June 16, 2008
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
|
| Similar Items:
|
| Customer Reviews:
Bang up to date with 147 golden nuggets of information August 3, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review 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.
--
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).
|
|
|
| |
