This course enables the experienced Java developer to use the Spring Application Framework to manage objects in a lightweight "IoC" (inversion-of-control) container; to create simple and complex Web applications; 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 and MVC modules, with a lighter (but by no means dismissive) touch on 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 students build Web applications that use the Spring MVC framework to rationalize their designs into coherent request/response cycles. They use Spring command objects to manage HTML forms and their data, and connect these to the validation framework. 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. Course covers the same basic material but has a few less code exercises and follows a more aggressive, three-day timeline.

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
• Servlets programming
• JSP
• Basic knowledge of XML