Spring Framework Development

Course Description

The Spring Framework is one of the leading lightweight architectures for creating enterprise-scale applications in Java. This course describes how to use Spring to create Web applications, Web services, middle-tier components, data-access components using JDBC, and messaging components using JMS.

You will also learn how to use Inversion of Control (IoC) and Dependency Injection to minimize dependencies and to achieve Test-Driven Development, and how to use Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) to implement cross-cutting functionality.

Course Duration

4 days

Course Objectives

Following course completion, delegates will know how to:

  • Create and use beans
  • Implement dependency injection
  • Use Aspect-oriented programming with Spring
  • Use Spring data access and transaction APIs
  • Create Spring MVC Web applications
  • Define and use Web services using Spring
  • Use Spring Integration

Course Content

Spring Framework - Essentials
  • Overview of Spring
  • Dependency injection and Inversion of Control (IoC)
  • Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) with Spring
  • Test-Driven Development principles
  • Defining a first application

Using Inversion of Control (IoC)
  • Implementing IoC in Spring
  • Implementing dependency injection via beans and bean factories
  • Spring bean definition profiles and environments

More about Spring Bean Configuration
  • Property editors
  • Type converters
  • Autowiring and component scanning
  • Spring Expression Language
  • Spring unified property management
  • Bean definition profiles
  • Caching

Java-Based Bean Configuration
  • Using the @Configuration annotation
  • Dependency injection in Java-based configuration
  • Using Spring support for XML namespaces in Java-based configuration
  • Accessing properties

Understanding the Application Context Lifecycle
  • Bean factory post processing
  • Bean post processing
  • Implementing @PostConstruct and @PreDestroy methods
  • Understanding dynamic proxies

Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP)
  • Spring AOP architecture
  • Defining pointcuts
  • Defining joinpoints
  • Implementing advice methods
  • Understanding pointcut designators
  • Implementing introductions

Spring Data Access
  • Spring data access concepts
  • JdbcTemplate
  • Spring repositories and application architecture
  • JPA integration
  • Hibernate integration

Spring Transactions
  • Local vs. global transactions
  • Understanding PlatformTransactionManager
  • Declarative transactions
  • @Transactional
  • Advising transactions
  • Roll-backs
  • Bean-specific transactions

Creating Web Applications with Spring Web MVC
  • Overview of MVC
  • Spring MVC implementation
  • Configuring a dispatcher servlet
  • Defining a controller
  • Mapping request parameters
  • Mapping path variables
  • Accessing HTTP cookies, headers, and session state

Going Further with Spring Web MVC
  • Form handing
  • Formatting
  • Validation
  • Java-based MVC configuration
  • Ajax support
  • Asynchronous requests

Spring Web Services
  • Hosting SOAP web services in Spring
  • Implementing RESTful services
  • Using Spring REST annotations
  • Implementing RESTful clients

Spring Integration
  • Overview of Spring Integration
  • Adapters
  • Using Spring Integration as an alternative to Enterprise Service Buses

Going Further with Spring Data
  • Prepared statements
  • Batch updates
  • Stored procedures
  • Handling large objects

Spring Web Security
  • Understanding security issues
  • Using Spring Web security
  • Configuring authentication
  • Accessing security information in JSP pages
  • Securing the application layer

Spring Web Flow
  • Overview of Spring Web Flow
  • Spring Web Flow Definitions
  • Configuring Spring Web Flows
  • Defining steps and transitions
  • Defining views
  • Decision states and action states

Spring Messaging
  • Introduction to Java Message Service (JMS)
  • Spring JMS support
  • Sending and receiving messages

Spring Java Management Extensions (JMX)
  • Introduction to JMX
  • Exporting Spring beans as MBeans
  • Customizing management interfaces

Spring Batch
  • Introduction to Spring Batch
  • Configuring Spring Batch beans
  • Implementing a job
  • Launching a job

Who should attend?

This course is for software programmers that want to learn about the Spring Framework.

Pre-requisites

Delegates should have at least 6 months Java programming experience.