Book: The Modern Equivalent of Wrox Spring

Question

I liked the 2005 book, Professional Java Development Using the Spring Framework, by Johnson. What will be the equivalent of 2008-9 in terms of quality and clarity of the book provided?

Essentially looking for a book for someone new to Spring, I still think the 2005 book is somewhat important, but since then much has changed in the Spring world.

Answer 1

Today, the best of them is the Pro Spring series and the Spring Action series. I can especially recommend the first.

edit: It seems that Pro Spring spans Spring 2.5, but Spring in action is still stuck in 2.0 days

Answer 2

"Spring Recipes" (~ 1/3- ), . Spring 3.0 , 2.5.

UPDATE: . , Spring .

Answer 3

Depending on your timelines, you can wait until Spring 3.0 (I believe this is inevitable, since 3.0 M3 is missing ). Apress seems to have a related book .