John Wiley & Sons 2005 (672 p.)
ISBN: 0764574833
Written by the lead developers of the Spring Framework, this authoritative guide shows you not only what spring can do but why, explaining its functionality and motivation to help you use all parts of the framework to develop successful applications.
This book covers all major parts of the Spring framework, explaining the framework's functionality and motivation. It aims to equip you to implement advanced applications using Spring.
You will learnWhat Spring offers. Spring has a large feature set: We guide you through the features and show how they form a coherent whole.
Why Spring does what it does. We discuss the motivation behind many Spring features and the rationale for Spring's approach.
When to use Spring features, and about best practices when using Spring.
This book assumes a working knowledge of core features such as JDBC. Chapters related to J2EE topics such as EJB and JMS assume a basic grounding in those areas. However, we provide suggestions on further reading at appropriate points, so don't worry too much now if you're not sure your knowledge is deep enough.