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I have browsed Amazon for books about Spring and they are either: old (ca. 2005) or they get bad reviews. What are the best source for learning Spring in 2012? Are the books from 2005 still useful? I have been doing Java for almost 3 years now and I have tried Java EE 6 if that influences the answer.
The books you’ll find are likely to be Spring 2.5 or older; Spring 3 hasn’t been out that long.
But the things you need to know for Spring 3 were there in version 2.5. Any book will suffice if you’re learning it for the first time.
I don’t know what books you’ve seen or what the reviews have been like, but “Spring in Action” is in its 3rd edition. It’s a pretty good book. I think “Pro Spring” is good. Rob Harrop is one of the smart young developers at Spring Source who’s been around since the beginning. He wrote a fine book, in my opinion.
The web is the only place that has a chance to be up-to-date.
Java EE is immaterial here.