Pro JSF and Ajax by Jonas Jacobi and John R. Fallows

Read On: 8/17/09
Rating: 7 /10

Pros:

• I liked this summary of other applications and which component of MVC they target: Examples of frameworks are Struts (an open source controller framework);
  TopLink and Hibernate (model frameworks); and Tiles, Tapestry, XUL, and ADF UIX (so-
  called view frameworks).

Cons:

• Can be hard to read
  

Questions:

• Why do so many frameworks model navigation these days?
  

Comparing Web Frameworks: Struts, Spring MVC, Webwork, Tapestry & JSF

Read on: 08/17/2009
Rating: 2/10

Way outdated, by the time I got my hands on it. No fault of the authors it was made in 2005.

Pros:

• Concise

Cons:

• Its just a bunch of slides
  

Beginning Spring 2 by Dave Minter

Read On: 8/17/09
Rating: 8/10

Pros:

• Very good introduction to Spring
• Clear explanation of IoC and dependency injection
• Made a strong case for using Spring for all applications

Cons

• Would of liked more Spring annotation examples.
  
• The database example could of been expanded. In particular I wasn't sure what the purpose of the DAO's were.
  
• I would of liked a more detail on Spring MVC