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The authors are trying to provide some hands-on notes and codes to introduce Spring framework in a template format. The intention is good, the size of the book is good (not like many other books on Spring which are over 500 pages), but the 'glue' to make all disparate information together is missing. Essentially, all these bits of information become separated islands. Even for the basic element, details are not provided for readers to get a clear picture. I understand that authors may want to keep the size of the book small, but it really needs to be detailed enough (but not more than enough)to be any useful for readers.
One other question is what kayaking and biking have anything to do with Spring? Maybe it is metaphor that I could not figure out. One of the authors keeps saying his experience of kayaking and biking, it is annoying.
On the positive side, the book does not do any harmful things to Spring, though it does very little helpful things either.
The book is probably deprecated with new Spring release. So if you really want to keep pace with Spring, look elsewhere.

Other Reviews

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• This book is an excellent start to Spring - don't listen to the others!
• Absolutely dreadful
• Safai Tech Books Online has the original printing