Introduction to the Spring 4 Framework

SPRG-104 (5 Days)

Spring 4 Framework Training Overview

Accelebrate's Spring 4 Framework training course teaches attendees how to build full-stack Java EE applications and services using the Spring 4 framework.

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Spring 4 Framework Training Objectives

Learn the core principles of Spring, Dependency Injection (DI), and Inversion of Control
Understand the Spring container and API
Integrate Spring with persistence tiers based on JDBC, Hibernate, and JPA
Implement transactions in Spring Applications
Build web application interfaces with Spring MVC
Use Spring as a back-end for Ajax applications
Create Spring MVC-based RESTful web services

Spring 4 Framework Training Outline

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Introduction

Spring Introduction

Shortcomings of Java EE and the Need for Loose Coupling
Managing Beans, The Spring Container, Inversion of Control
The Factory Pattern
Configuration Metadata - XML, @Component, Auto-Detecting Beans
Dependencies and Dependency Injection (DI) with the BeanFactory
Setter Injection

Dependency Injection

Using the Application Context
Constructor Injection
PropertyEditors
Factory Methods
Crucial Namespaces ‘p’ and ’c’
Configuring Collections
Bean Definition Inheritance and Collection Merging
Expression Languages, SpEL

The Spring Container and API

The Spring Managed Bean Lifecycle
Key interfaces, Annotations and BeanPostprocessors
Event Handling and Listeners
Message Sources and Internationalization
Autowiring Dependencies

Other Metadata Configurations

Annotation Configuration @Autowired, @Required, @Resource
@Component, Component Scans. Component Filters
@Value and @Qualifier
Life Cycle Annotations
Java Configuration, @Configuration, XML free configuration (Optional)
The AnnotationConfigApplicationContext

Spring 4 Specifics

Groovy Bean Definition DSL
Generic Qualifiers for Bean Injection
Using CGLib Proxy classes with the objenesis library
Using @Conditional and @Lazy
Java 8 feature support

Spring and Persistence

Spring and JDBC
- JdbcTemplate/JdbcDaoSupport
Spring and Hibernate
- HibernateTemplate/HibernateDaoSupport
Spring and JPA
- JpaTemplate/ JpaDaoSupport
- Direct access to JPA via @PersistenceUnit and @PersistenceContext
- CRUD methods

Spring AOP

PointCuts, JoinPoints, Aspects, Adices
Before, After, AfterReturning, AfterThrowing, Around
Annotation Configuration
XML Configuration

Transaction Management

Transaction Propagation
Declarative Transaction Management: @Transactional
Annotation Configuration, Rollback Rules, Isolation
Advisors
XML Configuration

Develop Web Applications using the Spring Framework - Spring MVC

The WebApplicationContext and the ContextLoaderListener
Model View Controller
Front Controller Pattern
DispatcherServlet Configuration
Controllers, RequestMapping
Working with Forms
Getting at the Request, @RequestParam, @RequestHeader, @CookieValue
ModelAndView
Using the POST Redirect GET pattern with FlashAttributes

Advanced techniques

Spring form tags and Model Binding, @ModelAttribute
Chain multiple View Resolvers
Handler Interceptors
Data Validation JSR303

Spring Controllers and Ajax

JavaScript(JQuery) access to Controllers (brief selector overview)
URITemplates
Using @ResponseBody
JSON and XML data exchange
HTTP GETS and POSTS

RESTful Web Services

Core REST concepts
REST support in Spring 4.x
Use Spring MVC to create RESTful Web services
REST specific Annotations in Spring
URITemplates, @PathVariable, @RequestParam
JSON and XML data exchange
@RequestMapping
Contract Negotiation (CONNEG)
Client access with HttpClient or RestTemplate

Conclusion

40%

Lecture/Demo

60%

Lab

Course Number:

SPRG-104

Duration:

5 Days

Prerequisites:

All attendees must have at least one year of full-time Java and JSP development experience. Prior experience with servlets and JSP is recommended but not required.

Training Materials:

All attendees receive a copy of the latest edition of Manning’s Spring in Action and related courseware.

Software Requirements:

JDK 8 or later (required for Spring 4)
Spring Tool Suite, Eclipse for Java EE Developers, or another IDE of your choice
Tomcat 7 or later (or another servlet container, upon request)
Other free software - please contact us if you have purchased this class.

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