Since this book is written in German, this description is written in German as well.

Dieses Buch ist speziell für Entwickler mit Grundkenntnissen in Java und objektorientierter Programmierung geschrieben.

Als Einsteiger werden Sie sich von den vielen Möglichkeiten die Spring bietet schlichtweg erschlagen fühlen. Dieses Buch führt Sie Schritt für Schritt mit möglichst einfachen und sehr vielen Beispielen an das Wesentliche, so dass die vielen Vorteile, die das Framework mit sich bringt, auch für Ihre Anwendungen nutzbar werden.

Das Buch geht intensiv auf die Grundlagen von Spring ein: "Dependency Injection" und der "Aspektorientierten Programmierung". Sie werden im Kapitel "Persistenz" merken, wie einfach es ist, flexibel Daten zu speichern. Im Kapitel "Web Technologien" zeigt Ihnen dieses Buch, wie Sie Spring bei der professionellen Entwicklung von Webapplikationen unterstützt. Sie lernen mit Hilfe von Spring testgetrieben zu programmieren und ganz nebenbei eigenen Sie sich gute Programmierpraktiken an

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Ervacon has published the first book dedicated entirely to Spring Web Flow: Working with Spring Web Flow.

This book by Spring Web Flow project founder Erwin Vervaet, covers Spring Web Flow in detail by explaining its motivation and feature set, as well as providing practical guidance for using the framework to develop web applications successfully in a number of environments.

From the publisher:

"Spring is a fresh breeze blowing over the Java landscape. Based on the principles of dependency injection, interface-oriented design, and aspect-oriented programming, Spring combines enterprise application power with the simplicity of plain-old Java objects (POJOs).

In this second edition, Spring in Action has been completely updated to cover the exciting new features of Spring 2.0. The book begins by introducing you to the core concepts of Spring and then quickly launches into a hands-on exploration of the framework. Combining short code snippets and an ongoing example developed throughout the book, it shows you how to build simple and efficient J2EE applications. You will see how to solve persistence problems, handle asynchronous messaging, create and consume remote services, build web applications, and integrate with most popular web frameworks. You will learn how to use Spring to write simpler, easier to maintain code so that you can focus on what really matters--your critical business needs."

This is a German book about the Spring framework. Therefore the rest of the description will also be in German. Das Buch bietet eine umfassende Einführung in das Spring-Framework und behandelt u.a.:

• Dependency Injection
• Aspektorientierte Programmierung
• Transaktionen
• Persistenz (JDBC, iBATIS, Hibernate, JPA)
• Verteilte Anwendungen (RMI, SOAP, HTTP, EJB)
• Spring Web Framework
• Integration in Struts und JSF
• Acegi-Sicherheitsframework
• Spring Web Flow

Die 2. Auflage wurde vollständig überarbeitet und auf die Version 2.0 von Spring aktualisiert. Sie enthält neue Kapitel zur Java Persistence API (JPA), zu EJB 3, Spring Java Config und zu Spring Web Services sowie einen Überblick über Spring OSGi. Der Leser ist nach dem Studium des Buches in der Lage, eigene Anwendungen mit Spring zu entwickeln. Als Vorbild wird im Buch schrittweise eine Beispielanwendung entwickelt.  

From Amazon: Agile Java™ Development With Spring, Hibernate and Eclipse is a book about robust technologies and effective methods which help bring simplicity back into the world of enterprise Java development. The three key technologies covered in this book, the Spring Framework, Hibernate and Eclipse, help reduce the complexity of enterprise Java development significantly. Furthermore, these technologies enable plain old Java objects (POJOs) to be deployed in light-weight containers versus heavy-handed remote objects that require heavy EJB containers. This book also extensively covers technologies such as Ant, JUnit, JSP tag libraries and touches upon other areas such as such logging, GUI based debugging, monitoring using JMX, job scheduling, emailing, and more. Also, Extreme Programming (XP), Agile Model Driven Development (AMDD) and refactoring are methods that can expedite the software development projects by reducing the amount of up front requirements and design; hence these methods are embedded throughout the book but with just enough details and examples to not sidetrack the focus of this book. In addition, this book contains well separated, subjective material (opinion sidebars), comic illustrations, tips and tricks, all of which provide real-world and practical perspectives on relevant topics. Last but not least, this book demonstrates the complete lifecycle by building and following a sample application, chapter-by-chapter, starting from conceptualization to production using the technology and processes covered in this book. In summary, by using the technologies and methods covered in this book, the reader will be able to effectively develop enterprise-class Java applications, in an agile manner!

This is the first French-language book on the Spring Framework, and includes material on both Spring 1.2 and Spring 2.0.

 Expert Spring MVC and Web Flow provides in-depth coverage of Spring MVC and Spring Web Flow. 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, you’ll discover some new hidden treasures. You’ll also learn how to correctly and safely extend the frameworks to create customized solutions.

From the Editorial Review: 

This in-depth, authoritative book-written by the lead developers of the Spring Framework-describes common types of problems faced by Java developers and then shows how Spring can help solve them.

Covering the complete spectrum of Java development, the book introduces well-known techniques (such as design patterns) to solve problems as well as new and innovative approaches that can be used in conjunction with other popular open source technologies like Hibernate and Velocity.

Since development first began on Spring in 2003, there's been a
constant buzz about it in Java development publications and corporate
IT departments. The reason is clear: Spring is a lightweight Java
framework in a world of complex heavyweight architectures that take
forever to implement. Spring is like a breath of fresh air to
overworked developers.

In Spring, you can make an object secure, remote, or transactional, with a couple
of lines of configuration instead of embedded code. The resulting application is
simple and clean. In Spring, you can work less and go home early, because you can
strip away a whole lot of the redundant code that you tend to see in
most J2EE applications. You won't be nearly as burdened with
meaningless detail. In Spring, you can change your mind without the
consequences bleeding through your entire application. You'll adapt
much more quickly than you ever could before.  Spring: A
Developer's Notebook offers a quick dive into the new Spring framework,
designed to let you get hands-on as quickly as you like. If you don't
want to bother with a lot of theory, this book is definitely for you.
You'll work through one example after another. Along the way, you'll
discover the energy and promise of the Spring framework. This practical
guide features ten code-intensive labs that'll rapidly get you up to
speed.

You'll learn how to do the following, and more:

• install the Spring Framework
• set up the development environment
• use Spring with other open source Java tools such as Tomcat, Struts, and Hibernate
• master AOP and transactions
• utilize ORM solutions

 
As with all titles in the Developer's Notebook series, this no-nonsense
book skips all the boring prose and cuts right to the chase. It's an
approach that forces you to get your hands dirty by working through one
instructional example after another-examples that speak to you instead
of at you.

Written for enterprise Java developers who have become disillusioned
with the complexity and bulk  involved with EJB development, this
programming tool 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.