Download or read book Beginning Spring 2 written by Dave Minter and published by Apress. This book was released on 2008-08-31 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will take developers through the first steps of using Spring whilst discussing the relevant technologies that Spring can be integrated with, what to be aware of and how working with Spring makes them easier to use. It focuses on the most useful features of Spring, including persistence and transaction management as well as the complete Spring web tools portfolio, and also introduces 3-tier application design and how to test these designs. Ideal for J2EE beginners, this book provides a broad insight into Spring’s enterprise Java-based technologies, whilst showing how to use Spring correctly.