Part 1 Core Spring

Chapter 1 Springing into action: Simplifying Java development; Containing your beans; Surveying the Spring landscape; What’s new in Spring; Summary
Chapter 2 Wiring beans: Declaring beans; Injecting into bean properties; Wiring with expressions; Summary
Chapter 3 Minimizing XML configuration in Spring: Automatically wiring bean properties; Wiring with annotations; Automatically discovering beans; Using Spring’s Java-based configuration; Summary
Chapter 4 Aspect-oriented Spring: What’s aspect-oriented programming?; Selecting join points with pointcuts; Declaring aspects in XML; Annotating aspects2; Injecting AspectJ aspects; Summary

Part 2 Spring application essentials

Chapter 5 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; Summary
Chapter 6 Managing transactions: Understanding transactions; Choosing a transaction manager; Programming transactions in Spring; Declaring transactions; Summary
Chapter 7 Building web applications with Spring MVC: Getting started with Spring MVC; Writing a basic controller; Handling controller input; Processing forms; Handling file uploads; Summary
Chapter 8 Working with Spring Web Flow: Installing Spring Web Flow; The components of a flow; Putting it all together: the pizza flow; Securing web flows; Summary
Chapter 9 Securing Spring: Introducing Spring Security; Securing web requests; Securing view-level elements; Authenticating users; Securing methods; Summary

Chapter 10 Working with remote services: An overview of Spring remoting; Working with RMI; Exposing remote services with Hessian and Burlap; Using Spring’s HttpInvoker; Publishing and consuming web services; Summary
Chapter 11 Giving Spring some REST: Getting REST; Writing resource-oriented controllers; Representing resources; Writing REST clients; Submitting RESTful forms; Summary
Chapter 12 Messaging in Spring: A brief introduction to JMS; Setting up a message broker in Spring; Using Spring’s JMS template; Creating message-driven POJOs; Using message-based RPC; Summary 332
Chapter 13 Managing Spring beans with JMX: Exporting Spring beans as MBeans; Remoting MBeans; Handling notifications; Summary
Chapter 14 Odds and ends: Externalizing configuration; Wiring JNDI objects; Sending email; Scheduling and background tasks; Summary; The end...?