Spring is one of the most popular and widely-used framework for building Java enterprise applications. Demand for Spring-related skills in Java job posting has also been increasing over the past few years. As a Java developer, you probably do not want to miss the chances. The shortest and fastest way to arm yourself is digging into a good Spring book. Here’s a list of options for you:

• • Spring MVC: Beginner's Guide
  • Getting started with Spring Framework
  • Spring in Action (3rd Edition)
  • Spring in Practice
  • Pro Spring 3
  • Spring Integration in Action
  • Spring Batch in Action
  • Spring Web Services 2 Cookbook

 

1. Spring MVC: Beginner's Guide

Author: Amuthan G

Publisher: Packt Publishing

Published Date: June 25, 2014

Paperback: 347 pages

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Content Coverage:

• Chapter 1: Configuring a Spring Development Environment
• Chapter 2: Spring MVC Architecture - Architecting Your Web Store
• Chapter 3: Control Your Store with Controllers
• Chapter 4: Working with Spring Tag Libraries
• Chapter 5: Working with View Resolvers
• Chapter 6: Intercept Your Store with Interceptor
• Chapter 7: Validate Your Products with a Validator
• Chapter 8: Give REST to Your Application with Ajax
• Chapter 9: Apache Tiles and Spring Web Flow in Action
• Chapter 10: Testing Your Application
• Appendix A: Using the Gradle Build Tool

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2. Getting started with Spring Framework

Author: J. Sharma, Ashish Sarin

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Published Date: December 10^th 2012

Paperback: 324 pages

Content Coverage:

• • Chapter 1: Spring Framework basics
  • Chapter 2: Configuring beans
  • Chapter 3: Dependency injection
  • Chapter 4: Customizing beans and bean definitions
  • Chapter 5: Annotation-driven development with Spring
  • Chapter 6: Database interaction using Spring
  • Chapter 7: Messaging, emailing, asynchronous method execution, and caching using Spring
  • Chapter 8: Aspect-oriented programming  
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3. Spring in Action (3rd Edition)

Author: Craig Walls

Publisher: Manning Publications

Published Date: June 29^th 2011

Paperback: 424 pages

Content Coverage:

• • PART 1: CORE SPRING:
    • Springing into action
    • Wiring beans
    • Minimizing XML configuration in Spring
    • Aspect-oriented Spring

 

• • PART 2: SPRING APPLICATION ESSENTIALS
    • Hitting the database
    • Managing transactions
    • Building web applications with Spring MVC
    • Working with Spring Web Flow
    • Securing Spring

 

• • PART 3: INTEGRATING SPRING
    • Working with remote services
    • Giving Spring some REST
    • Messaging in Spring
    • Managing Spring beans with JMX
    • Odds and ends

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4. Spring in Practice

Author: Willie Wheeler, Joshua White

Publisher: Manning Publications

Published Date: May 16^th 2013

Paperback: 560 pages

Content Coverage:

• • Introducing Spring: the dependency injection container.
  • Data persistence, ORM, and transactions.
  • Building web applications with Spring Web MVC.
  • Basic web forms.
  • Enhancing Spring MVC applications with Web Flow.
  • Authenticating users.
  • Authorizing user requests.
  • Communicating with users and customers.
  • Creating a rich-text comment engine.
  • Integration testing.
  • Building a configuration management database.
  • Building an article-delivery engine.
  • Enterprise integration.
  • Creating a Spring-based “site-up” framework.

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5. Pro Spring 3

Author: Clarence Ho, Rob Harrop

Publisher: Apress

Published Date: April 18^th 2012

Paperback: 944 pages

Content Coverage:

• • Introducing Spring
  • Getting Started
  • Introducing the Sample Application
  • Introducing IoC and DI in Spring
  • Spring Configuration in Detail
  • Introducing Spring AOP
  • More Spring AOP and Annotations
  • Spring JDBC Support
  • Using Hibernate in Spring
  • Data Access in Spring with JPA 2
  • Using MyBatis in Spring
  • Designing and Implementing Spring-Based Applications
  • Transaction Management
  • Validation with Type Conversion and Formatting
  • Task Scheduling in Spring
  • Using Spring Remoting
  • Web Applications with Spring
  • Spring Web Flow and JSF
  • Spring Testing
  • Spring Projects: Batch, Integration, Roo
  • Sample Application in Detail
  • Scripting Support in Spring
  • Spring Application Monitoring
  • SpringSource Tool Suite (Spring IDE)

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6. Spring Integration in Action

Author: Mark Fisher, Jonas Partner, Marius Bogoevici, Iwein Fuld

Publisher: Manning Publications

Published Date: September 26^th 2012

Paperback: 368 pages

Content Coverage:

• • Part 1: Background

1. • • Introduction to Spring Integration.
     • Enterprise integration fundamentals.

• • Part 2: Messaging

1. • • Messages and channels.
     • Message Endpoints.
     • Getting down to business.
     • Go beyond sequential processing: routing and filtering.
     • Splitting and aggregating messages.

• • Part 3: Integrating Systems

1. • • Handling messages with XML payloads.
     • Spring Integration and the Java Message Service.
     • Email-based integration.
     • Filesystem integration.
     • Spring Integration and web services.
     • Chatting and tweeting.

• • Part 4: Advanced Topics

1. • • Monitoring and Management.
     • Managing scheduling and concurrency.
     • Batch applications and enterprise integration.
     • Scaling messaging applications with OSGi.
     • Testing

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7. Spring Batch in Action

Author: Arnaud Cogoluegnes, Thierry Templier, Gary Gregory, Olivier Bazoud

Publisher: Manning Publications

Published Date: October 07^th 2011

Paperback: 504 pages

Content Coverage:

• • PART 1: BACKGROUND

1. • • Introducing Spring Batch
     • Spring Batch concepts

• • PART 2: CORE SPRING BATCH

1. • • Batch configuration
     • Running batch jobs
     • Reading data
     • Writing data
     • Processing data
     • Implementing bulletproof jobs
     • Transaction management

• • PART 3: ADVANCED SPRING BATCH

1. • • Controlling execution
     • Enterprise integration
     • Monitoring jobs
     • Scaling and parallel processing
     • Testing batch applications

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8. Spring Web Services 2 Cookbook

Author: Hamidreza Sattari, Shameer Kunjumohamed

Publisher: Packt Publishing

Published Date: February 20^th 2012

Paperback: 322 pages

Content Coverage:

• • Chapter 1: Building SOAP Web-Services.
  • Chapter 2: Building Clients for SOAP Web-Services.
  • Chapter 3: Testing and Monitoring Web-Services.
  • Chapter 4: Exception/SOAP Fault Handling.
  • Chapter 5: Logging and Tracing of SOAP Messages.
  • Chapter 6: Marshalling and Object-XML Mapping (OXM)
  • Chapter 7: Securing SOAP Web-Services using XWSS Library.
  • Chapter 8: Securing SOAP Web-Services using WSS4J Library.
  • Chapter 9: RESTful Web-Services.
  • Chapter 10: Spring Remoting.

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