Beginning Spring 2 - From Novice to Professional

Contents at a Glance

Contents

About the Author

About the Technical Reviewer

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Who This Book Is For

How This Book Is Structured

Downloading the Code

Contacting the Author

An Introduction to Spring

Frameworks

Inversion of Control ( IOC)

An Agile Framework

Aspect- Oriented Programming ( AOP)

Libraries

Spring and Web Applications

Documentation

Other Tools

Conclusion

Presenting the Sample Application

Rationale

Architecture of the Sample Application

Specification

Maven

Configuration Files

Tests

The Web Application

Conclusion

The Heart of Spring: Inversion of Control

Benefits and Disadvantages of DI

Coupling

The Need for a Framework

The Container

XML Configuration

XML Schema – Based Configuration

Annotation- Based Configuration

Conclusion

Data Access

Persistence Frameworks

DAOs

Templates and Support Classes

Plain Old JDBC

Hibernate

Conclusion

The Service Layer, Transaction Management, and AOP

Implementing Services in Spring

Transactions

Aspect- Oriented Programming ( AOP)

Conclusion

Web Applications

The Model View Controller Pattern

Managing Contexts

Spring MVC

Spring Web Flow

Forms and Binding

Views

Filters

Conclusion

Security

Securing the Web Components

Making Security Decisions

Securing the Service Layer

Conclusion

Sending E-mail

Using the Mail Sender

Sending Plain Text

Sending Formatted HTML

Including Inline Images and Attachments

Conclusion

Remoting

Remoting Mechanisms

Conclusion

Testing

Unit Testing

Integration Testing

Web Testing

Regression Testing

Conclusion

The Spring IDE Plug-in for Eclipse

Installing the Plug- in

Managing Bean Configurations

Managing Spring Web Flow Configuration

Using File- Creation Wizards

Conclusion

Index