Spring in Action

I really liked the book but I think a book like this should be written considering how quickly technology evolves. My suggestion is that the author should electronically update the exercises (the book should point to a website that can be updated) so readers can implement them with the newest version of Spring. I had a problem executing some of the tasks of the project because the book (sadly) is based on an outdated version of Spring.

What a great Spring book!!! I have several, but if I had found this one first, I could have saved both money and shelf space... it's one of those rare technical books that makes you want to keep reading... a real page turner. Spring is a notoriously difficult topic and though many books about Spring start out promising, they eventually just give up on making the material easy to comprehend and settle into the tech paper lingo full of assumptions about the readers tech back ground. Not this book! It takes you by the hand and don't introduce stuff until you are ready for it. Highly recommended!

I have read other books from Manning that have been remarkably informative and well planned. This book does not come close in terms of quality. You will NOT be able to follow along with the book's examples on your own; the code listed in the book will NOT work as-is.As a brief example illustrating the extent of the problems, the portion of the project from Chapter 3 that demonstrates JDBC templates for database persistence requires an implementation of the Converter interface to take Strings passed in from the html forms and turn them into data types that the business logic uses. The class in question is present in the source code downloadable from the publisher's website, but not only is absent from the source code listings in the textbook, the concept itself of Converters does not appear in the text before that point. If you do not already understand what the solution would look like--and I certainly didn't, that being one of the reasons why I bought the book in the first place--you are forced to download the source code and meticulously comb through it side by side with your own project to even be able to guess at what would fix your errors.It is clear that no one even bothered to check the book to see if such issues would arise, as the error messages plastered across the screen would have been immediately evident if they had. As a result, I look forward to finishing this text like I look forward to my next dentist appointment to having fillings done: I will be glad it's over and better off for having done it, but the experience will be utterly painful and made worse by the fact that it could have been completely prevented. I would look elsewhere to gain your knowledge of Spring.

I really enjoyed this book. I was learning Spring from scratch and the pace was nice.

I just recently purchased this book and have completed the first three chapters.Bad rating because there are lots of typos, code usually will not compile without fixing lots of stuff and the author clearly didn't try the examples himself, at least when he says, "fire it up", I now expect it all to come crashing down. Source code downloaded from online doesn't match the examples in the text.I am giving 2 stars instead of 1 because despite the frustrating experience, I feel like I already know a lot more about Spring than I did before starting the book. With some minor thoughtfulness from the author and/or editor, this could have been a great book.

The book is lacking in information to begin with. The author describes the form of implementing Spring in an application, but does almost nothing to describe the actual impact of any individual statement. This is left to the reader to either intuit or consume the Spring documentation. If I was looking to learn Spring through their documentation, I would not have gone to the trouble of ordering a book meant for instruction. This all compounded by the artifacts of previous iterations of this book. It is clear the book was not rewritten from a blank screen and this is fine. Iteration is a fundamental part of modern software design and is just as applicable to the writing of textbooks. The problem is the carelessness with which the book was updated. Old class names, file paths, and God knows what else have been left to utterly confuse the reader.If you want to learn Spring, keep looking this is not the book you're looking for.Edit: I just read the 5 star reviews. I don't know why they are so complementary (maybe they have some personal connection to the author), but they are fully at odds with the reality of this product.

This book is awful because the author bringing a lot of mistakes and bugs in code. The code in book does not match the author's github. Anyway code is not working, and like his saying "fire it up". What??? Your code is not working, what do you wanna me to fire up? I want to return my money!

I've tried three times of starting with this book and the examples (while good in thought) just don't work or missing stuff. I gave up and went to Udemy to get a course. I have "Pro Spring 5" sitting on my desk and haven't looked at it yet, but this book just gathers dust now. Don't bother wasting your money on this book, if you get it for free, maybe, maybe, but otherwise, look elsewhere.

Really things in this book are in ACTION, I didn’t like it very much because it’s a lot of practice and little theory, or better yet it doesn’t have deep explanations.

Muy buen libro, lo recomiendo si quieren aprender sobre el framework de spring. Llegó en excelente estado y muy bien protegido.

This book contains so many errors, it's nearly impossible to follow along with the examples (missing code for method calls, random class names that appear out of nowhere that are meant to be something else, etc). Many of these errors have been pointed out over a year ago from the previous edition to the author, and yet he has done nothing to fix them. Just google "spring in action fifth edition forum" and you will see the numerous complaints this book has received on the publisher's forum. I'm returning this, what a waste of money

Explica o framework Spring com exemplos.Ótimo material para se conhecer este fantástico framework

Llego en excelentes condiciones. Los ebook ya los obtuve, y estoy repasando el contenido