Book recommendations?

[Janne Mattila]

Any good books for a Spring newbie to read? Are there any good books covering Spring 2.0, and if not, is reading the older books (and which ones?) still useful?

[Herman Schelti]

hi Janne,

there aren't any books on Spring 2.0 (yet), but have a look at http://www.springframework.org/documentation.

There's a step-by-step tutorial that's a bit old but still good.
And Spring 1.2-code will still work with Spring2.0
(well at least in my applications).

You can then move on to the reference documentation for 2.0, which is pretty good.

If you want a book to begin with: Pro Spring (Apress).

I used all of these 3 when I learned Spring by adding Spring an existing webapplication(easier use of JDBC, defining transactions and using AOP for logging)

Herman