Since my first time using it in 2004, I have been a big fan of Spring and have used it in almost all my projects. I’m deeply attracted to Spring’s simplicity and reasonableness.
Spring is the simplest and most powerful Java/Java EE application framework I have ever used, and its ability to solve difficult problems in simple ways has made a strong impression on me.
The solutions offered by Spring may not be the best all over the world, but they are the most reasonable ones that I can think of.
Spring addresses most aspects of Java/Java EE application development and offers simple solutions to them.
By using Spring, you will be lead to use industry best practices to design and implement your applications.
The releases of Spring 2.x have added many improvements and new features to the 1.x versions. This book focuses on the latest Spring 2.5 features for building enterprise Java applications.
As a course instructor on programming technologies, I always find that the biggest challenge my students face is how to get their experimental projects running.
Many programming books include code examples, but most only include code fragments, not complete projects.
Most of these books provide complete projects for you to download from their web sites, but they don’t provide a chance for you to build the projects step by step on your own.
I believe that you’ll learn a lot from the project-building process, and that you’ll gain confidence once you have gotten your projects running—this was my inspiration for writing this book.
As active Java developers, we often have to master a new technology or framework. Since we are only developers who use a technology, not students who have to take an exam, we don’t need to keep everything in our mind. We only need an efficient way of making references when necessary.
To benefit experienced readers, and beginner readers who have read this book from cover to cover, I’ve organized each chapter with multiple problem-solution–based recipes.
This way, you’ll be able to easily look up a solution for a particular problem.
The topics in this book are introduced by complete and real-world code examples that you can follow step by step. Instead of abstract descriptions on complex concepts, you will find live examples in this book.
When you start a new project, you can consider copying the code and configuration files from this book, and then modifying them for your needs.
This can save you a great deal of work over creating a project from scratch.
