This book gives the Spring community a fix that'll keep us satisfied .
— Lasse Koskela, JavaRanch Sheriff
Expert Spring MVC and Web Flow provides in-depth coverage of Spring MVC and Spring Web Flow, two highly customizable and powerful web frameworks brought to you by the developers and community of the Spring Framework. Spring MVC is a modern web application framework built upon the Spring Framework, and Spring Web Flow is a new project that compliments Spring MVC for building reusable web controller modules that encapsulate rich page navigation rules. Along with detailed analysis of the code and functionality, plus the first-published coverage of Spring Web Flow, this book includes numerous tips and tricks to help you get the most out of Spring MVC, Spring Web Flow, and web development in general.
Spring MVC and Spring Web Flow are engineered with an important consideration for design patterns and expert object oriented programming techniques. This book explains not only the design decisions of the frameworks, but also how you can apply similar designs and techniques to your own code.
This book takes great care in covering every inch of Spring MVC and Spring Web Flow to give you the complete picture. Along with all the best known features of these frameworks, youll discover some new hidden treasures. Youll also learn how to correctly and safely extend the frameworks to create customized solutions.
From beginner to expert, this book is for anyone who wishes to write robust, modern, and useful web applications with the Spring Framework.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Great book when Spring WebFlow was just being released
The book was great pre-release book, but like most programming books for specific frameworks becomes almost useless within a few months
Rating: - Poorly organized and obsolete
I completely agree with the reviewer who points out how almost chaotically the information is delivered in this book - for the most part. Generally, you need to skip from section to section and back a few times before you can get all the pieces together. That's unacceptable. It's impossible to use this book as a convenient reference since each example generally provides only partial answers, and you have to scan back and forth through the pages to look for the clarification on the missing pieces. ... Read More
Rating: - Material is worthy of a strong 4 stars, but poor editing makes it 3
The book provides really good information and I was able to build out an application after reading it. The only problem is the editing and I hope a 2nd edition is released with fixes and updates for Spring 2.0. There are good PDF presentations out there that give a quick overview and one good tutorial that's a working example. I would google for those and read them alongside with this book.
Rating: - Great fiction
As computer books continue their never ending slide into the abyss, Apress and Manning seem to be leading the way. This book is one of the best works of fiction ever written. From incomplete and non-working examples to the many errors, the publishers would be better served by pulling this tome off the market and starting over. There is nothing "expert" in this text nor is there anything the least bit helpful. Well, ok, I will admit the UML diagrams are nice.
Rating: - Not Good...
Other reviews have mentioned that there are many problems with the examples in this book. I can only reaffirm what they've said.
The other thing that I really didn't like was the disorganized fashion with which the examples were presented. The authors seemed to jump around describing one small section of the problem in great detail, then 3-4 pages later would give you the critical piece of information you needed to understand their example 3 pages before. I am a fan of examples that ... Read More
- Great book when Spring WebFlow was just being released
- Poorly organized and obsolete
- Great fiction
