What turned me off on the last edition of Spring in Action book was the example with Knights and Minstrels, etc. Once I saw that, I simply stopped reading. Is that still in there? Why not create examples that applicable to something other than an academic exercise?
I've always thought it would make sense to have a book that described how to build a PRODUCTION ready application, not some contrived example either. Rod Johnson's Expert One On One
J2EE book does a good job at it. I had an old book on
Struts called Profoessional Jakarta Struts. The whole book was about how to make an application where you'd key in a ticker symbol and it would return a quote. The quote would only come back for certain hard-coded Strings. You've got to be kidding me.
A second question would be: Are they realling deprecating all the controller classes in favor of annotations? I looked at Spring about a year ago, and I thought going from Struts to Spring didn't seem bad if I went the route of FormControllers, etc. The last I heard was that this is going away.
I do appreciate all your efforts though, and will definitely examine your next edition.