Spring In Action

by Craig Walls (Author), Craig Walls (Author), Ryan Breidenbach (Author)

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  Paperback
  2005

  $3.25

  A guide to the lightweight container framework that presents an exciting alternative to EJB J2EE offers Java developers a very powerful enterprise framework. But portions of J2EE can be complicated--specifically Enterprise JavaBeans. By shouldering the burden of J2EE's complexities and providing the developer with a much simple abstraction, Spring makes developing J2EE application significantly simpler. It also provides a viable alternative to EJB, providing many of the same features offered by EJB, but without EJB's complexities. Written for enterprise Java developers who have become disillusioned with the complexity and bulk involved with EJB development, Spring in Action demonstrates how the Spring framework can make coupled code easy to manage, understand, reuse, and unit-test. Spring's employment of inversion control and aspect-oriented programming techniques to encourage loosely coupled code is explained, providing programmers with the ability to use JavaBeans with the power and enterprise services only previously available in the heavier Enterprise JavaBeans. Even hard-core EJB fanatics may find some value in this book as the next specification of EJB will more closely resemble Spring than the current EJB specification. Software architects will find Spring in Action valuable in assessing and applying the lightweight techniques prescribed by Spring.

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  Paperback
  2007

  $3.25

  Craig Walls, one of Manning's best writers, has produced a much expanded

  and completely updated edition to cover the exciting new features of the justreleased

  Spring 2.0. The book is a hands-on, example-driven exploration of the

  Spring framework. Combining short code snippets and an ongoing example

  developed throughout the book, it shows readers how to build simple and efficient

  J2EE applications, how to solve persistence problems, handle asynchronous

  messaging, create and consume remote services, build web applications,

  and integrate with most popular web frameworks. Readers will learn how to use

  Spring to write simpler, easier to maintain code so they can focus on what

  really matters critical business needs.