What you’ll learn

• Installing the Spring framework and Spring IDE, using the Spring IoC container and the Spring application context.
• Understanding AOP concepts, using classic and new Spring AOP, integrating Spring with AspectJ, and load–time weaving aspects.
• Using Spring to simplify data access (with JDBC, Hibernate, and JPA) and manage transactions programmatically and declaratively.
• Building web applications and portlets with Spring Web MVC and Portlet MVC, and integrating Spring with Struts, JSF, and DWR.
• Understanding the unit testing and integration testing concepts, and Spring’s unit and integration testing support (on JUnit 3.8, JUnit 4, and TestNG).
• Using Spring’s support for remoting technologies (RMI, Hessian, Burlap, and HTTP Invoker), EJB, JMS, JMX, E-mail, scheduling, and scripting languages.
• Understanding security concepts (authentication, authorization, and access control), and securing web applications using Spring Security.
• Managing complex web application page flows using Spring Web Flow, and integrating Spring Web Flow with JSF.
• Exposing contract–last web services using XFire, and developing contract–first web services using Spring Web Services.



Who is this book for?



This book is for Java developers who would like to gain hands–on experience rapidly on Java/Java EE development using the Spring framework. If you are already a developer using Spring in your projects, you can also use this book as a reference, and you’ll find the code examples very useful.

You don’t need much Java EE experience to read this book. However, it assumes that you know the basics of object–oriented programming with Java (e.g., creating a class/interface, implementing an interface, extending a base class, running a main class, setting up your classpath, and so on). It also assumes you have basic knowledge on web and database concepts and know how to create dynamic web pages and query databases with SQL statements.

About The Author


Gary Mak has been a technical architect and application developer on the enterprise Java platform for six years. In his career, Gary has developed a number of Java–based software projects, most of which are core application frameworks and software tools. He enjoys designing and implementing the complex parts of software projects.


Gary is a Sun certified Java programmer and has a master’s degree in computer science. His research interests include object–oriented technology, aspect–oriented technology, design patterns, and software reuse. Gary specializes in building enterprise applications on frameworks including Spring, Hibernate, JPA, Struts, JSF, and Tapestry. He has been using the Spring framework in his projects for four years, since Spring version 1.0. Gary is also an instructor of courses on enterprise Java, Spring, Hibernate, Web Services, and agile development. He has written a series of Spring and Hibernate tutorials as course materials, parts of which are open to the public, and they’re gaining popularity in the Java community. In his spare time, he enjoys playing tennis and watching tennis competitions.

Customer Reviews & Comments
I used this book as a quick reference to Spring 2.5 for use on a recent JSF project, and was thrilled at how easy it was to find exactly the information that I was looking for. With JSF and the application context being my focus, I only read about a third of the book (chapters 1 through 4, 10 and 11). These chapters detailed exactly what I needed to do to get Spring 2.x up and running with JSF, including how to use it instead of the JSF managed bean creation facility, and how to unlock the request/session scopes. The chapter on the advanced features of the Spring container is particularly interesting as it clearly portrays the number of ways Spring can instantiate a bean (viz., using a constructor, a static factory method, an instance factory method, from a static field, from an object property, or a factory bean.) Also noteworthy are the Java equivalents that are provided for each of these instantiation methods, making understanding the differences a no-brainer. There's also a wealth of information on multiple approaches to achieving the same goal (e.g., injecting references using the ref element, using ref attribute of a property element, or using the p schema), with clear indications as to why one might be preferable over the others. Really stretching for a con here - the recipe approach felt a bit contrived and unnecessary. However, the quality of the writing is beyond reproach, and more than made up for any discomfort I had with the topic structure.


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