Professional Java for Web Applications

I love how the author builds up the proper knowledge with each chapter building off the previous. More importantly (at least for me), I really like how he starts with the fundamentals (Java servlets) and then later slowly starts swapping each piece out for a spring component, giving you a better understanding of what Spring actually does for you under the hood. This is the best book for Spring MVC that I've found for learning it at a beginner and intermediate level.The only problem I have with the book is I wish the author expanded and covered the whole Spring framework with the exact same approach If he ever does or writes an updated version of this book I will certainly be picking up a copy.

Aunque me da la impresión de que está un poco desactualizado, este libro me ha salvado el culo en mi trabajo, ya que tenía que hacer un ERP en Java y yo solo sabia programar en Java estandart edition. Está bien explicado, y gracias al libro hice el ERP.

It covers what I was looking for, in a concise and pragmatic way. And what I like most is that it treats Java 8.

Good Book for professionals with good Explanation , Authors says that he has not covered all parts but trust me guys this book has everything you need to be a Java Web Developer .Spring MVC , Spring Security , JPA Hibernate , Servlet , JSP , Web Services , Spring validation .. All Explained in professional way . (Actual Production like Code ) .. Examples , Exercise are way beyond expectation.Definitely go for it .

It's the first programming book that I rate with 5 starts and it's worth every each of them. Eventhough I've only covered three chapters and skimmed through the rest of the book, I can tell that its author managed to come up with a perfect merge of "How? and Why?" of creating scalable action-based applications in Java. JSF and EJBs are not covered, but so they shouldn't (except maybe for Stateless EJBs).My advice - disregard most of the negative comments complaining about necessity of installing IntelliJ IDEA or code not compiling under another IDE. Book gives enough to do everything manually using any other IDE (I tried Eclipse Java EE IDE and Netbeans 7.3).The only thing author could consider including in his following edition is coverage of a templating mechanism for the views. Author mentioned some of them on p. 75: Velocity, Tiles, SiteMesh and the like, but I would recommend Thymeleaf (http://www.thymeleaf.org/) - it lets developers do their job and designers theirs.Other then that - excellent book!