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.





Customer Reviews
Average Rating:

Rating: - A JSF web developer's perspective
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, ... Read More



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Rating: - Best spring book
well-written-concise book that covers all spring (even lookup, though other reviewer didn't notice).

Its examples are not stupid, they feel real though simple ones.

I like this book much more than the manning one.



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Rating: - Decent Book
This is one of the better Spring 2.0 book in the market. I have been using Spring for few years now but this book still managed to surprise me with few recipes. The only caveat I have is that, that lookup-method technique is not covered (unless I missed it, in which case I apologize). All in all a very decent book.



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Rating: - complete and concise
Congratulations to Gary. He has done what lots of authors tried and failed. This is at the moment the best spring 2.x book available. Well-structured, concise and complete. It builds up excellently and takes you from start to finish. What I enjoy the most about this book is that it shows the necessary steps for integrating spring with other high profile open source frameworks and concepts. It is not dry as a reference manual while doesn't try to be funny which is the trick used by some authors as ... Read More



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