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Spring: A Developer's Notebook Review by Anthony Bull
This book is an excellent start to Spring - don't listen to the others!
I got the first edition of this book in late 2006, and spent 2 days working through it, while at the same time building up a test Spring application.
Anyone here who says they can't get the code running or even compiling is showing their general incompetence as a developer, as opposed to the quality of the book.
From start to finish, I did not have an issue with getting the examples working - and this was all done without an internet connection. The so called litany of errors is all a load of hot air.
If you are the sort of developer who likes to copy and paste code and *pretend* that you know a topic, then you should not get this book OR any of the other books in this series.
On the other hand, if you are a competent developer who has used open source Java projects before, then you will not have a problem. That is, if you can think for yourself there will not be a problem.
The book is excellent for covering all the topics you need to know to get up and running with Spring - annotations, transactions, ORM ibatis/Hibernate mappings, mail, Spring MVC and a great description of exactly what Inversion of Control/Dependency Injection actually is. Two thumbs up!