“Spring In Action” - A review
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Spring in Action Craig Walls, Ryan Breidenbach Manning 2005 |
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This is the second book I read on Spring, after Spring Live (you can read my review here, but I’ll post an updated version in this blog soon). “Spring In Action” is a really good book, which adopt a different approach from Spring Live: while the latter is more practical and simple, “Spring in Action” is a complete reference manual that covers nearly every aspect of Spring. This doesn’t mean it is complicate: every explanation is clear and there are a lot of code examples. I particularly appreciated its well-planned table of contents: the first part explains clearly what “Inversion of Control” and AOP mean and how Spring makes them possible. The second part is about “Spring in the business layer”, explaining how you can write services and Daos, and how you can simply implement transaction management and service remoting. Finally, the third part talks about the Web layer covering Spring MVC as well as other technologies and frameworks. Furthermore, chapter 11 covers application security using Acegi. The style is always simple and enjoyable, and the length (about 400 pages) allows you to read it in a few days. Overall an excellent resource for any developer interested in using Spring in his project. You can download some sample chapters here. |
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