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Spring in Action Review by Raymond W. Champion III
So far, so good
When I first tried to learn about Sring it was very painful to get through the first chapter. Maybe it was because I was too inexperienced about java and web development in general. Now that my career depends on me learning this material I settled down and started trying to understand what Spring is about. I also tried several online tutorials on Spring to get me familiar with the how Spring is setup in IDE.
With that said, I was able to learn about dependency injection and AOP in the first chapter. The author actually does try to hold your hand and walk you through a rather inverted concept. He does use a "Hello World" example in as simple a manner as possible with Spring, to demonstrate some very basic concepts of Spring. The next code example on the Knights of the Round Table actually solidified my learning even more. One will have to do the code and do some thinking for yourself to get it to compile on your IDE. Painful yes, but it forces you to really understand what is going on.
Don't expect Spring concepts to jump out at you. It is a very different way of thinking than what you are used to.
I may re-evaluste my review later as I am just starting Chapter 3.