Very long and boring overview of Spring.

Didn't like the author's style, he's trying too hard to sound friendly. The author discusses obvious things for too long and omits explanations of non-obvious things altogether.

The book simply has no warnings, best practices, rules of thumb, and tradeoffs. I think it's a bad sign when you're too confident in the piece of technology. In sum, the book is too upbeat and confident about Spring to be useful.