Java Tuts

Monday, October 7, 2013

Understanding Virtual Host Concept in Tomcat

http://www.ramkitech.com/2012/02/understanding-virtual-host-concept-in.html

other references
http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/virtual-hosting-howto.html#Assumptions

Friday, September 13, 2013

Top 5 Books on Spring Framework and Spring MVC

Here is my list of top 5 books to learn Spring MVC and Spring framework.

Expert Spring MVC and Web Flow

Expert Spring MVC and Web Flow by Seth Ladd, Darren Davison, Steven Devijver, Colin Yates is one of my favorite book on Spring MVC and arguably one of the best book in Spring MVC. It covers both Spring MVC and web flow in depth and explains each concept with simple explanation. I highly recommend this book to any beginner which is learning Spring MVC framework. There chapter on Spring fundamentals is also one of the best way to learn dependency injection and inversion of control in Spring and I myself learned DI and IOC from that chapter. This is the Spring book I recommend to any Java web developer who is familiar with Java web technology or any MVC framework like Struts. Only missing point is that this book only covers Spring MVC and web flow and does not cover whole Spring framework. Also, in my opinion there chapter on Spring Fundamentals is one of the best way to start with Spring framework.

Spring Recipes – A problem solution approach

list of books to learn spring framework in Java

This is another good book on Spring Framework which I like most. This book is collection of Spring recipes or How to do in Spring Framework. In every Spring recipes you learn some new concept and it also helps to learn Spring fundamental e.g. there recipes help me to learn when to use ApplicationContext and BeanFactory and Constructor vs Setter Injection. Key highlight of this book is, It’s problem solution approach. Since it’s teaching style is different than any conventional book, it’s a good supplement along with Spring documentation. This books also provide excellent coverage of many spring technologies e.g. Spring Security, Spring JDBC, Spring and EJB, JMX, Email and have a chapter on scripting as well. If you like books on problem solution approach than you will enjoy reading Spring Recipes, not the best book on Spring but still a good one and will definitely made to any list of top 10 books on Spring framework.

Professional Java Development with the Spring Framework

best book to learn spring mvc and spring

Main highlight of this book is that one of it’s author is Rod Johnson, who is also created Spring framework. So you get his view on Spring and How spring should be used used, what are best practices to follow on Spring e.g. When to use Setter Injection and Constructor Injection. This book provide good coverage of Spring framework including Spring core, Spring MVC, Spring ORM support etc. Also examples in this book is easy to understand and it also focus on Unit tests which is good practice. Though I don’t rate this book too high, like if your focus is Spring MVC than Expert Spring MVC and Web flow is the best Spring book to follow. If you are looking an overview on Spring features, than Spring Documentation is best book to read. As I said positive point of this book is knowing Spring from author Rod Johnson himself. Once you have basic knowledge of Spring framework, you can read this book to get authors view.

Pro Spring 3.0

top book on spring framework for Java developer

Pro Spring is one of the best book to learn Spring Framework from start. This book is massive and tries to cover most of the Spring concept e.g. Spring fundamentals, JDBC Support, Transaction support, Spring AOP, Spring Web MVC, Spring Testing etc. Good point about this book is that it’s conventional and easy to read, it explains concept, followed with good example, which is good way to learn. What is worrying is sheer size, I haven’t completed this book till date and only refer with some topic. Good point is that this book covers Spring 3.1 which is the latest stable version. As I said this is one of the most comprehensive book on Spring framework and any one who wants to learn Spring framework by following just one book, Pro Spring 3.0 is a good choice.

Spring Documentation

Spring framework documentation is located on Springsource website, here is the link for Spring documentation for Spring framework 3.1 in HTML format http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/3.1.0.M2/spring-framework-reference/html/. Though this is not a book, Spring tutorials and Spring documentation are another two source of learning Spring framework, which I highly recommend. Main reason for that is they are free and highly comprehensive and has lot of examples to support various concept and feature. Also one of the best part of reference documentation is that they are updated with the latest Spring release available. Updating books with every new version of Spring is rather difficult than updating documentation. Spring documentation combine with any Spring book is best way to learn Spring framework. For learning Spring MVC, you can combine Spring documentation with earlier spring book, Expert Spring MVC and Web Flow.

Spring in Action

Lots of my readers suggested Spring in Action from manning, as one of the best book to learn Spring. Seems like a worth reading book. I have seen it's content briefly and it does cover both Spring and Spring MVC. So if you are looking for common book for complete Spring framework, Spring in Action is another one.

These are some of the best books to learn Spring framework and Spring MVC. Spring documentation is special because of update and new releases of Spring Framework. Given popularity of Spring Framework for new Java development work, every Java developer should make effort to learn Spring framework.