Beginning Pojos: Lightweight Java Web Development Using Plain Old Java Objects in Spring, Hibernate, and Tapestry

If you are just starting to see what the lightweight framework application hubbub is about this is the best introductory book on the subject that I have read. I purchased this book, got distracted by another project and only recently picked it up to read the chapter on Spring. I read the Introduction, became hooked by the authors very natural and readable narrative style and soon I had read the entire book. That is unusual. The author has chosen a unique Technical Conference Application as a test case and described it's development in various light weight frameworks and applications. The examples are bit dated by the use of Eclipse 3.1 but everything with the exception of an older version of SQL Explorer runs with Eclipse 3.2. If you are an experienced Spring - ORM developer your mileage may vary but chances are you will learn some new things. This is a very big little book. Technologies covered in some depth with references are: Eclipse, Spring-MVC, Hibernate, Tomcat, Tapestry-HiveMind, JBoss, SQL Explorer, DynaDTO, Ajax with Tacos, TestNG and AspectJ along with discussions of several patterns and methods of Dependency Injection. The discussion and reasoning behind the use of the techniques is well thought out and insightful. My only caveat is that the author and I belong to the same Java users group. I plan to leverage that personal contact to encourage Brian to write more books.

I am a student just leave college for company in China,in my company, Hibernate+Spring+Tapestry are used,the best thing for me is being familiar with the framework soon.Then I found this book Beginning POJOSWhich is helpful for me.I am enjoying reading it,and I can do my job now. Thank you Brian!Great job!

This book will give you a new perspective on the topic and will outline how to use some interesting tools and technologies. I enjoyed reading and learning from it.

This is a great book. The author provides a simple and fantastic pattern for developing lightweight Java applications, based on software engineering best practices. This provides a nice foundation for delving deeper into the subject matter covered throughout the text. The only criticism I have (a minor one) is I would have liked some more meat regarding the JBoss Business Services topic, this is really just a personal preference. Great job Brian!

Very useful book, it has saved my development team hours of research time.