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Spring in Action, Sixth Edition

Spring in Action, Sixth Edition

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  • Author：Craig Walls
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Summary

The latest version of a bestseller upgraded for Spring 5。3 and Spring Boot 2。4， Spring in Action， Sixth Edition also covers the RSocket specification for reactive networking between applications and delves deep into essential features of Spring Security。

Spring in Action， Sixth Edition guides you through Spring’s core features explained in Craig Walls’ famously clear style。 You’ll roll up your sleeves and build a secure database-backed web app step by step。 Along the way， you’ll explore reactive programming， microservices， service discovery， RESTful APIs， deployment， and expert best practices。

The latest version of a bestseller upgraded for Spring 5。3 and Spring Boot 2。4， Spring in Action， Sixth Edition also covers the RSocket specification for reactive networking between applications and delves deep into essential features of Spring Security。 Whether you’re just discovering Spring or leveling up to Spring 5。3， this Manning classic is your ticket！

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF， Kindle， and ePub formats from Manning Publications。

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Reviews

Chris Austin ，

A decent intro to the Spring ecosystem， though I found that it lacked depth in all of the areas I was hoping it would cover。 Reactor has a chapter but it's sparse。 The WebClient section glossed over exchange。 Nothing at all about autoconfigure and conditionals。 As with many books the first few paragraphs every chapter is flavor text that I skip。 A decent intro to the Spring ecosystem， though I found that it lacked depth in all of the areas I was hoping it would cover。 Reactor has a chapter but it's sparse。 The WebClient section glossed over exchange。 Nothing at all about autoconfigure and conditionals。 As with many books the first few paragraphs every chapter is flavor text that I skip。 。。。more

Claudia V。 ，

Kinda bad！I read the first 3 chapters and a bit of the rest of this book and despite it having 6 editions （I read the 6th one）， it is incredibly sloppy！ Lots of mistakes and omissions， forcing you to go into the code and fix it yourself。 And these errors can be pretty glaring （eg， references to objects of the wrong type， methods that don't exist）。 The explanations are hit or miss， as the author will sometimes introduce a new object that he will not explain。 Some code is introduced， just so it ca Kinda bad！I read the first 3 chapters and a bit of the rest of this book and despite it having 6 editions （I read the 6th one）， it is incredibly sloppy！ Lots of mistakes and omissions， forcing you to go into the code and fix it yourself。 And these errors can be pretty glaring （eg， references to objects of the wrong type， methods that don't exist）。 The explanations are hit or miss， as the author will sometimes introduce a new object that he will not explain。 Some code is introduced， just so it can be thrown away 2 pages later such as in the persistence chapter。 In the same chapter， he will introduce a 'taco dto' that can't be saved to the db because it gets lost in transit while doing work with the 'taco order'。 So the order gets saved， but the dto object doesn't。It seems the author did not bother to proofread his own work， nor did he bother to update the code which has received an update 2 years ago on Github。 It isn't beginner friendly either， so if you're new to Spring or programming in general， I would suggest to avoid。 Very bad for a self proclaimed 'zealous promoter of the Spring framework'！I may open this book again if I need some specific topic from it， but otherwise I will stay away。 What a shame。 。。。more

Łukasz ，

Dobre i łopatologiczne wprowadzenie do Springa， chociaż pierwsza aplikacja wg książki to droga przez mękę。 Brakujący kod， trzeba skakać po książce， nic nie działa， googlujesz， sprawdzasz kod dołączony do przykładu。。。 Eeeh， lektura dla ludzi o mocnych nerwach。 Ale później już jest lekko i przyjemnie ;）

Tomasz Lachowski ，

Many mistales and erros

Shravan ，

The author does a great job in explaining all the core concept of the Spring Framework， even though is really hard to fit all the concepts in a single book， this book has packed most of the concepts with clear cut examples。

Sergey Machulskis ，

Very long and boring overview of Spring。 Didn't like the author's style， he's trying too hard to sound friendly。 The author discusses obvious things for too long and omits explanations of non-obvious things altogether。The book simply has no warnings， best practices， rules of thumb， and tradeoffs。 I think it's a bad sign when you're too confident in the piece of technology。 In sum， the book is too upbeat and confident about Spring to be useful。 Very long and boring overview of Spring。 Didn't like the author's style， he's trying too hard to sound friendly。 The author discusses obvious things for too long and omits explanations of non-obvious things altogether。The book simply has no warnings， best practices， rules of thumb， and tradeoffs。 I think it's a bad sign when you're too confident in the piece of technology。 In sum， the book is too upbeat and confident about Spring to be useful。 。。。more

Santanu Baruah ，

Decent book。 Not enough coverage

Lebo Mametja ，

A comprehensive intro to Spring and how all that magic is done under the hood。 The audiobook came with a PDF that had a few formatting issues but the web version was easier to follow

Mauro Vargas ，

This book has a lot of errors。 It is extremely difficult to follow along the exercises because there are a lot of mistakes in the code examples

Tommaso Cortonesi ，

Buon libro di riferimento per chi si affaccia all'ecosistema Spring。 L'ho trovato godibile。 Buon libro di riferimento per chi si affaccia all'ecosistema Spring。 L'ho trovato godibile。 。。。more

Max ，

A fine book to get into spring fast。 Some things are explained briefly without details。

Alan ，

Despite the popularity of the series， the latest edition i。e。 the 5 edition， disappointed me。 Many of the code snippets in the book are incomplete and have not been redacted。 For me， a beginner to Spring， this book is very difficult to read。

Barbara Krein ，

Many good points in this book。 Not all of them were applicable to my software development experience。

Mark Dechamps ，

This book contains everything you need to know to get a clear understanding of just about everything in Spring。 Even today ， more than 4 years after it was released I got very useful information out of it （concerning spring security this time）。 It is well written ， not boring at all and it earns everyone of my 5 stars！ I highly recommend to read it cover to cover or as reference book。

Ishmael ，

Review is for 4e。Felt like a decent overview of Spring。 I often felt that there was bad pedagogy， though， and I wasn't a big fan of the organizational structure。It was a bit of a slog， and I wasn't super excited to return to it， but by the end， I felt like I had a fairly decent grasp of Spring。I appreciated the authors voice throughout the book。 It made the reading better。 Review is for 4e。Felt like a decent overview of Spring。 I often felt that there was bad pedagogy， though， and I wasn't a big fan of the organizational structure。It was a bit of a slog， and I wasn't super excited to return to it， but by the end， I felt like I had a fairly decent grasp of Spring。I appreciated the authors voice throughout the book。 It made the reading better。 。。。more

Matija Čvrk ，

Essentially， a set of notes and references， strongly suggest having hands on experience， as examples used don't bring the material closer to the reader。In favor to， the material is hard and complex， to write， read， to teach and understand。 The volume is short and is hard to read for less experienced developers。Finally， examples need more background， contrastly， if made to challenge the reader， should be more concrete。 Essentially， a set of notes and references， strongly suggest having hands on experience， as examples used don't bring the material closer to the reader。In favor to， the material is hard and complex， to write， read， to teach and understand。 The volume is short and is hard to read for less experienced developers。Finally， examples need more background， contrastly， if made to challenge the reader， should be more concrete。 。。。more

Andrey Bevilacqua ，

It is a great book。 It teaches from the basics of Spring （start。spring。io） to deploy a Spring Boot application in any cloud solution。

Giorgi Tsiklauri ，

Contains many errors and mistakes。。 I've got half way through， but I'm already really tired with fixing errors， clarifying explanations or amending content just by myself， understanding what the author might have meant by introducing unexplained things or just guessing points around， etc。。 many things are poorly explained and just introduced in a bunch。。 especially Spring Data/JPA/Security or other Spring's web-related things。Book should be more clearly and properly structured， in an incremental Contains many errors and mistakes。。 I've got half way through， but I'm already really tired with fixing errors， clarifying explanations or amending content just by myself， understanding what the author might have meant by introducing unexplained things or just guessing points around， etc。。 many things are poorly explained and just introduced in a bunch。。 especially Spring Data/JPA/Security or other Spring's web-related things。Book should be more clearly and properly structured， in an incremental and consecutive approach。 Book shouldn't contain a material which puts the reader under the confusion， or which is not explained well。 。。。more

Patrick Coakley ，

Spring in Action （5e） has been a somewhat frustrating experience because I actually think that overall， the content is quite good for the topic。 I feel like it does do a pretty good job of going over how a project could apply some of the different features of Spring while doing a decent job of also explaining said features。 The problems mostly lie in the typos and errors， both in the text itself and the sample code repository。 If you're trying to follow along， there are parts that are straight u Spring in Action （5e） has been a somewhat frustrating experience because I actually think that overall， the content is quite good for the topic。 I feel like it does do a pretty good job of going over how a project could apply some of the different features of Spring while doing a decent job of also explaining said features。 The problems mostly lie in the typos and errors， both in the text itself and the sample code repository。 If you're trying to follow along， there are parts that are straight up just not covered in the book but exist in the sample code。 This means that the errata isn't being incorporated into the latest versions， including ebooks， which is disappointing。 The other main issue I have with SiA5 is that it kind of meanders in areas where the author could have just focused on going more in-depth on one particular way of doing something。 I really would like to see the next version focus more on less because I actually like the idea of working on a project throughout the book， it's just too frustrating to do in its current form。 Based on some other reviews of this edition， it's possible that the previous edition had better editing; I may take a look in the future and update this review if that's the case。 。。。more

Cvetomir Denchev ，

I just concluded the 5th edition by one of the famous introductory books to Spring framework。 To be honest， it wasn't what I was looking for currently。 This edition of the book can be read after a year or a year and a half experience working with Spring as the author took a bit more different approach in my humbe opinion with this edition（I compared the contents of the two editions）。 I was looking for a book that would introduce me more to the Spring framework founding principles。 This time the I just concluded the 5th edition by one of the famous introductory books to Spring framework。 To be honest， it wasn't what I was looking for currently。 This edition of the book can be read after a year or a year and a half experience working with Spring as the author took a bit more different approach in my humbe opinion with this edition（I compared the contents of the two editions）。 I was looking for a book that would introduce me more to the Spring framework founding principles。 This time the author focused more on infrastructure and architecture related topics like High availability， fault tolerance， monitoring and other principles used within modern microservice-based web applications that developers are most likely to encounter nowadays。 He focused on the way those principles could be achieved in projects under the Spring Cloud hat。 There's nothing wrong with all of this， actually。 I'll have a look at a few chapters from the fourth edition to fill my gaps。 。。。more

Luis ，

I couldn't find a single online tutorial that adequately explained Spring。 Seriously， none。 They all appear to assume that the reader already knows something about Spring。 Walls doesn't make that assumption。 Walls goes into enough depth to teach the reader how to effectively apply Spring's tools， while explaining what happens under the hood。 If you want to learn how to use Spring and all that it offers， this book is a great choice。 I couldn't find a single online tutorial that adequately explained Spring。 Seriously， none。 They all appear to assume that the reader already knows something about Spring。 Walls doesn't make that assumption。 Walls goes into enough depth to teach the reader how to effectively apply Spring's tools， while explaining what happens under the hood。 If you want to learn how to use Spring and all that it offers， this book is a great choice。 。。。more

Alex Ott ，

Good introduction/overview of Spring framework - covers main parts。There are some errors in the code， plus author pitch Initialzr too often - I believe that we can shred 10-15 pages of repetition of the pieces of pom。xml， etc。

Nikhil ，

The Fifth Edition jumps to spring-boot。 It's good from a high-level perspective with some caveats。There are plenty of errors that didn't make it to the official errata page。Chief among these is a lack of versioning of the sample code。 We see annotations from Chapter 3 on JPA pop up in the chapter 2 code to do with MVC。 Some errors make it hard for people to follow along as they're coding to the book。Also the coverage is somewhat high level。 For example with MVC， although there are explanations， The Fifth Edition jumps to spring-boot。 It's good from a high-level perspective with some caveats。There are plenty of errors that didn't make it to the official errata page。Chief among these is a lack of versioning of the sample code。 We see annotations from Chapter 3 on JPA pop up in the chapter 2 code to do with MVC。 Some errors make it hard for people to follow along as they're coding to the book。Also the coverage is somewhat high level。 For example with MVC， although there are explanations， you still need to dig on your own to grasp the mechanics of @ModelAttribute。So what I'm saying is it's not an all-in-one reference -- in fairness it doesn't claim to be。 Given the breadth of Spring as a topic， it serves as a good introduction。 With plenty of exploration required -- it would have been good if the author could have included hand-off exercises that served as a launchpad for these investigations。 Overall a good book。 。。。more

jampo ，

Good introduction to Spring framework。Explains basic concepts and howto they are used with lots of examples。However its very expressive and long descriptions so nice for reading but not looking up stuff or getting lot of information in short time。

Tauras ，

An insightful book for a beginner such as myself。 Now when I am working with Spring， the logic behind it starts to make sense。

Sergey Yeranosyan ，

Must read for spring developers！

Akash Goel ，

This is a very good reference/guide to Spring if you already have some （very） basic experience with frameworks with DI。 I liked the humor that was kept up in the writing， and that all concepts had accompanying examples with very good explanations。 Several chapters try to implement the new concepts they introduce into an app， but I found the execution here to be a bit less focused。 If the practical implementation was a bit more focused and easier to follow， I would unequivocally rate this as 5 st This is a very good reference/guide to Spring if you already have some （very） basic experience with frameworks with DI。 I liked the humor that was kept up in the writing， and that all concepts had accompanying examples with very good explanations。 Several chapters try to implement the new concepts they introduce into an app， but I found the execution here to be a bit less focused。 If the practical implementation was a bit more focused and easier to follow， I would unequivocally rate this as 5 stars。 。。。more

Victoria ，

boring， a bit outdated now， but essentially good。 It actually took me 1 year to finish it :）

Marius A ，

A nice introduction into Spring framework。 It could have been better if the examples were somewhere available。

Donald Lika ，

This book provides great introduction to Spring 4 framework，It is also good for whom has started learning about the framework，It starts with explaining spring core concepts then it details all spring modules in a progressive wayOverall， I give 5 stars to this book because it explains all important concepts so every reader can understand。

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