Pro Spring

Pro Spring updates the perennial bestseller with the latest that the Spring Framework 4 has to offer. Now in its fourth edition, this popular book is by far the most comprehensive and definitive treatment of Spring available.

With Pro Spring, you’ll learn Spring basics and core topics, and share the authors’ insights and real–world experiences with remoting, Hibernate, and EJB. Beyond the basics, you'll learn how to leverage the Spring Framework to build the various tiers or parts of an enterprise Java application: transactions, web and presentation tiers, deployment, and much more. A full sample application allows you to apply many of the technologies and techniques covered in this book and see how they work together.

The agile, lightweight, open-source Spring Framework continues to be the de facto leading enterprise Java application development framework for today's Java programmers and developers. It works with other leading open-source, agile, and lightweight Java technologies such as Hibernate, Groovy, MyBatis, and more. Spring now works with Java EE and JPA 2 as well.

After reading this definitive book, you'll be armed with the power of Spring to build complex Spring applications, top to bottom.

Clarence Ho is the Senior Java Architect of a HK-based software consultancy firm, SkywideSoft Technology Limited (www.skywidesoft.com). Having been worked in the IT field for over 20 years, Clarence had been the team leader of many in-house application development projects, as well as providing consultancy services on enterprise solutions to clients. Clarence started programming with Java in 2001, and then heavily involved in the design and development of JEE applications with technologies including EJB, Spring Framework, Hibernate, JMS, WS, etc., beginning from 2005. Since then, Clarence had made up his mind in becoming a Java Enterprise Architect. Currently Clarence is working as a consultant for an international finance institution, contributing in various areas including Java EE architectural design, education, provide recommendations on technology solutions as well as application development best practice. When have spare time, Clarence enjoys playing sports (jogging, swimming, soccer, hiking, etc.), reading, movies, hang out with friends, etc.