Spring books are needed?

[ylazez]

greeting everybody
i want you to suggest me some good books of spring
rather that the documentation
thank you.

[mujahed]

Spring in action - manning. written by craig walls is the best book ever written for spring. I have atleast 6 different books for spring from different authors but none of them were ever worth reading except spring in action. You will love the way he takes you through all the concepts.
One very interesting fact about this book is that you get online help from author he has his own forum and most of spring professionals recommend this book. give it a reading.
Next to this book I would say Beginning Spring 2 from Novice to Professional.
All the other books were written in hurry.

[ylazez]

but the last version of spring in action was 2008,right?

[mujahed]

ya thats right. newer version spring 3.0 is awaiting release. you can buy pre-release version from http://www.manning.com/walls4/
are you after spring 2.5 or 3.0 ?
there is lot of difference check spring 3.0 documentation http://static.springsource.org/sprin...eference/html/

[ylazez]

um using spring 3.0.2
any ideas when the new release of manning will be published?

[mujahed]

check the link which i gave you in my earlier reply

[ylazez]

checked it already but can't find any info about the official release date

[mujahed]

Spring is not spring as in season. You are in wring place.
If you are serious children are gonna cry

[kanayo]

Check out this link.

http://apress.com/book/view/9781430224976

The book is based on spring 3.0. I find it quite useful.

[RobertGloverJr]

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are you after spring 2.5 or 3.0 ?
there is lot of difference check spring 3.0 documentation http://static.springsource.org/sprin...eference/html/

What I found startling was Appendix A.2 entitled "Classic Spring MVC". Here is the link: http://static.springsource.org/sprin...sic-spring-mvc. (Both the Spring 3.0.2 and the Spring 3.0.3 reference docs have omitted this section of the Appendix).

Surely there are many shops, my own included, which have 3 or even more years of "Classic Spring MVC applications" already in production that will need to be maintained and enhanced for many years to come.

Another interesting discovery in the new documentation is that it contains references to "the updated Petclinic sample" and yet, oddly, the PetClinic sample seems no longer to be included with the download of Spring. For example, see section 16.2.4.15 at this link: http://static.springsource.org/sprin...html/view.html (The reference documentation assumes the reader has access to the Pet Clinic sample).

Another thing I noticed, which for me signalled the end of an era, is that Spring 3.0.3 is the first release in the history of Spring that does not include dependencies in the download. Maven or Ivy is required to obtain dependencies. Ironically, the newer versions of maven have proved problematic for some shops, my own included, due to a change in the libraries maven uses for firewall configuration.