Objectives

• Explain the issues associated with complex frameworks such as J2EE and how Spring addresses those issues
• Describe the relationships between Spring and J2EE, AOP, IOC, JDBC, Hibernate, JSF, Struts, JMS and EJBs
• Discuss the challenges to adopting Spring
• Write applications that take advantage of the Spring container and the declarative nature of assembling simple components into applications
• Apply various options for integrating persistence into a Spring application
• Employ Spring's support for transactions
• List and work with various options for integrating view-oriented frameworks for web applications into Spring. Frameworks that are examined include Spring MVC, JSF and Struts
• Integrate JMS into the Spring framework
• Work with and/or implement EJBs using Spring

Audience

• Java Developers
• Object-Oriented Programmers

PreRequisites

• Basic experience in Java development or
• An introductory level Java course

Topics

1. Introduction to the Spring Framework
   • Inversion of control
   • Dependency injection
   • Spring overview
   • Spring application architectures
   • Spring container
     • Managing the container
     • Access to services and resources
     • Application contexts
   • Beans as components
     • Beans and factories
     • XML bean configuration
     • Bean definition and dependencies
     • Bean lifecycle
   • Customization options
     • Post-processors
     • Property editors
2. Spring and Persistence
   • Data access pattern
   • Overview of persistence layer and transactions
   • Spring JDBC
     • Spring JDBC architecture
     • Working with JDBC template
     • Database operations
     • Handling JDBC exceptions
   • Hibernate
     • Spring - Hibernate architecture
     • ORM mapping overview
     • DAO implementation
     • Working with Hibernate DAOs in Spring
     • Hibernate template
3. Spring and Transactions
   • Transaction overview
   • Spring transactions
   • Defining Spring transactions
   • Working with demarcation
   • Managing Spring transactions
4. Spring and Extensibility
   • AOP concepts
   • Spring's AOP framework
   • Interceptor chain
   • Integration with Spring container
   • Working with proxies
5. Spring and the Web
   • Spring/Web framework architecture
   • Spring MVC (optional)
     • Spring MVC architecture
     • Spring MVC components
     • Spring MVC flow
     • Dispatcher and controllers
     • Handlers and mappings
     • Interceptors
   • Spring and Struts (optional)
     • Spring/Struts architecture
     • Integrating Struts into Spring
   • Spring and JSF (optional)
     • Spring/JSF architecture
     • Integrating JSF into Spring
6. Spring and the Enterprise
   • JMS overview
   • Spring/JMS architecture
   • JMS template
   • EJB overview (optional)
   • Using EJBs in Spring (optional)
     • Finding the EJBs using JNDI
     • Using session EJBs from Spring
   • Implementing EJBs (optional)
     • Spring's EJB implementation overview
     • Spring and session EJBs
     • Spring and MDBs

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