Rating:  - Good book but the source code does not work!
This is a well written book. I enjoyed the gentle introduction to spring. I was surprised with the several problems I had with the downloaded code. The code does not work and is not orgainized by chapters. I hope the second edition comes with working code.
Rating: - Good Content, But Editor Should Be Fired
This book did exactly what I wanted it to do: gave me a good understanding of the nuts and bolts of development using the Spring Framework. It gave me an appreciation for the capabilities of the framework, and enough knowledge that I can comfortably create a Spring-based application.
As many other reviewers have mentioned, this book is riddled with errors. I am comfortable enough with my Java knowledge that I was able to read over a mistake and think "hey, that's not right." If I were less experienced, I imagine the errors would really make things confusing, and I would probably be less forgiving.
If you consider yourself to have a solid understanding of Java, and are willing to accept the imperfections of the proofreaders and editors, then go ahead and read this book; it will still give you a good understanding of the Spring Framework.
Rating:  - Solid coverage of the Spring Framework
Although Spring has moved forward with other add-ons, this book is a must read to "get your feet wet" with the core concepts / components of the Spring Framework. In fact, most, in not all of the Spring functionality you will use will be found in this book.
Rating:  - Not the best!
I should have believed the negative reviews. Did they even try their source? They couldn't have.
The explanations are fair, but the poor quality of the source examples makes you wonder.
Rating:  - Spring out of Action
This book is poorly edited and horribly designed. The author couldn't even write a good/complete example. Go to there website now and see that their example isn't even fully implemented. They even had to rewrite the example because they "learned" some stuff about Spring since writting the book. I thought you had to know something about Spring to write a whole book and then you can't even write a short example? Not a good place to start to learn about Spring. To give credit where its due, the first three chapters weren't bad, but they had nothing to do about Spring.
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