This course enables the experienced Java developer to use the Spring Application Framework to manage objects in a lightweight "IoC" (inversion-of-control) container, and to manage persistent objects using Spring's support for DAOs and transaction control. Spring is a far-reaching framework that aims to facilitate all sorts of Java development, including every level of multi-tier distributed systems. Here we focus on the Core module, and add overviews of web applications and persistence through DAO and ORM modules.

The Core module gives the developer declarative control over object creation and assembly; this is useful for any tier of any Java application. So is Spring's validation framework, and so we study these things in a mix of standalone (J2SE) applications and Web applications deployed to the Tomcat server/container. Then we connect our applications to persistent stores and study the DAO and ORM modules, to better understand JDBC and Hibernate persistence models and declarative transaction control.

To serve a range of audiences who are interested in different parts of the Spring framework and who have different backgrounds, we're maintaining three variants. This Course adds more coverage of the Web module (“Spring MVC”), making for a more aggressive schedule in the three days. Another course (4 days) has the additional exercises and more relaxed pace found in this course, and adds several chapters for those interested in Spring MVC for web applications.

A bridge module is also available that illustrates how Spring's persistence module compliments the Hibernate ORM framework; this brief presentation can easily be added to the end of the class and works especially well to cap off a week of training using this course and our Hibernate course.

Java Training Prerequisites

• Java programming is excellent preparation. ·
• Basic knowledge of XML