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Better, Faster, Lighter Java Review by Ray McDermott
simple and homely; not a good technical book
They work on five basic principles which, as another reviewer hints, makes it read a little like Covey and that is bad. Covey is a snakeoil salesman who reinvents his time management systems every three years to sell a new book. This book with its daddy Walton house building and kayaking action man morality tales is all quite patronizing.
The home spun tales seem to be Tate's, so I assume Gehtland does the coding. Unfortunately I don't think he read the book since he does not follow the principles that the book espouses: way too much duplication, not very OO (too many if/else; poor exception handling), unthinking dependencies on implementation (e.g Axis, Lucene).
Hibernate and Spring are powerful tools that help in the real world and there are better places to go and find out about them without all the whining.