http://javageek.org/2005/07/29/spring_framework_not_only_for_web_apps.html When I was looking at alternative frameworks for a project I have in my head, I looked at the obvious ones: Struts and JSF. I decided on JSF because as it comes from Sun, it is more likely that it will become the standard in the near future. However, I ... en Guillermo Castro Fri, 29 Jul 2005 22:00:58 GMT Pebble (http://pebble.sourceforge.net) http://backend.userland.com/rss http://javageek.org/2005/07/29/spring_framework_not_only_for_web_apps.html#comment1122674458577 Regarding the book, i have all Spring books around and this book by Craig is ok. But the goto-guy here is the one from Rob by Apress. But nevertheless it was also fun to read, my only concerns was that this book is just too thin to explain Spring in a descent way and that there was a fundamental error in the JDO section (mentioned that in the Spring maillist some months ago). But this book also pushed Spring into the public eyes because Manning is quite a big publisher. So in any way a great effort and i am looking forward to see more stuff from the Spring-Portlet project, some days ago i looked into the API. Marc Logemann http://javageek.org/2005/07/29/spring_framework_not_only_for_web_apps.html#comments http://javageek.org/2005/07/29/spring_framework_not_only_for_web_apps.html#comment1122674458577 Fri, 29 Jul 2005 22:00:58 GMT http://javageek.org/2005/07/29/spring_framework_not_only_for_web_apps.html#comment1122658084311 Yeah. It seems most people wrongly assume that Spring is just another web framework (me included). Great book, btw. I'm in chapter 4 so far, but the examples are very clear and the information very easy to digest. JavaGeek http://javageek.org/2005/07/29/spring_framework_not_only_for_web_apps.html#comments http://javageek.org/2005/07/29/spring_framework_not_only_for_web_apps.html#comment1122658084311 Fri, 29 Jul 2005 17:28:04 GMT http://javageek.org/2005/07/29/spring_framework_not_only_for_web_apps.html#comment1122647427830 I'm glad that you caught on. While Spring has a very nice Web MVC framework (and soon a very nice Portlet MVC framework), you don't have to use those if you don't want. In fact, Spring's web framework is actually just another framework that happens to be built on top of the core Spring framework. Choosing JSF is not a bad choice (not my favorite, but still not bad). The good news is that you can still use JSF with Spring, letting Spring manage your JSF managed beans or at least letting JSF inject beans from Spring into your JSF managed beans. Craig Walls http://javageek.org/2005/07/29/spring_framework_not_only_for_web_apps.html#comments http://javageek.org/2005/07/29/spring_framework_not_only_for_web_apps.html#comment1122647427830 Fri, 29 Jul 2005 14:30:27 GMT