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I bought this on the power and helpfulness of the 1.5 Tiger notebook which saved me time. Alas, this notebook does not measure up... yet. This is not meant to imply that Spring does not, but this notebook does not do Spring justice.

While this book eludes to the power of Spring the poor examples in Chapter 2 leave me wondering. Like other I buy these books to SAVE me time, not waste it. Alas, the first printing of this book has been a gargantuan waste of time. Thus, the book fails.

Things it needs to do is build more slowly on the examples while demonstrating which pieces refer to one another in the config files. Also the errors are more than plentiful.

Personally I use this books to guide me through the waters of building a similar app. But this book cant even get your through their own example app easily. <sigh>

Yes, I would be DELIGHTED to receive a second printing of this when available. I'll even revise this post.