contents
preface
preface to the first edition
acknowledgments
about this book
about the title
about the cover illustration
Part 1 Core Spring
- Springing into action
- What is Spring?
- A Spring jump start
- Understanding dependency injection
- Applying aspect-oriented programming
- Summary
- Basic bean wiring
- Containing your beans
- Creating beans
- Injecting into bean properties
- Autowiring
- Controlling bean creation
- Summary
- Advanced bean wiring
- Declaring parent and child beans
- Applying method injection
- Injecting non-Spring beans
- Registering custom property editors
- Working with Spring’s special beans
- Scripting beans
- Summary
- Advising beans
- Introducing AOP
- Creating classic Spring aspects
- Autoproxying
- Declaring pure-POJO aspects
- Injecting AspectJ aspects
- Summary
Part 2 Enterprise Spring
- Hitting the database
- Learning Spring’s data access philosophy
- Configuring a data source
- Using JDBC with Spring
- Integrating Hibernate with Spring
- Spring and the Java Persistence API
- Spring and iBATIS
- Caching
- Summary
- Managing transactions
- Understanding transactions
- Choosing a transaction manager
- Programming transactions in Spring
- Declaring transactions
- Summary
- Securing Spring
- Introducing Spring Security
- Authenticating users
- Controlling access
- Securing web applications
- View-layer security
- Securing method invocations
- Summary
- Spring and POJO-based remote services
- An overview of Spring remoting
- Working with RMI
- Remoting with Hessian and Burlap
- Using Spring’s HttpInvoker
- Spring and web services
- Summary
- Building contract-first web services in Spring
- Introducing Spring-WS
- Defining the contract (first!)
- Handling messages with service endpoints
- Wiring it all together
- Consuming Spring-WS web services
- Summary
- Spring messaging
- A brief introduction to JMS
- Using JMS with Spring
- Creating message-driven POJOs
- Using message-based RPC
- Summary
- Spring and Enterprise JavaBeans
- Wiring EJBs in Spring
- Developing Spring-enabled EJBs (EJB 2.x)
- Spring and EJB3
- Summary
- Accessing enterprise services
- Wiring objects from JNDI
- Sending email
- Scheduling tasks
- Managing Spring beans with JMX
- Summary
Part 3 Client-side Spring
- Handling web requests
- Getting started with Spring MVC
- Mapping requests to controllers
- Handling requests with controllers
- Handling exceptions
- Summary
- Rendering web views
- Resolving views
- Using JSP templates
- Laying out pages with Tiles
- Working with JSP alternatives
- Generating non-HTML output
- Summary
- Using Spring Web Flow
- Getting started with Spring Web Flow
- Laying the flow groundwork
- Advanced web flow techniques
- Integrating Spring Web Flow with other frameworks
- Summary
- Integrating with other web frameworks
- Using Spring with Struts
- Working Spring into WebWork 2/Struts 2
- Integrating Spring with Tapestry
- Putting a face on Spring with JSF
- Ajax-enabling applications in Spring with DWR
- Summary
appendix A Setting up Spring
appendix B Testing with (and without) Spring
index
web content
- web chapter: Building portlet applications
- appendix C: Spring XML configuration reference
- appendix D: Spring JSP tag library reference
- appendix E: Spring Web Flow definition reference
- appendix F: Customizing Spring configuration
