Introduction to the Spring 4 Framework

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

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 Managed Bean Lifecycle

Key interfaces, Annotations and BeanPostprocessors

Event Handling and Listeners

Message Sources and Internationalization

Autowiring Dependencies

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

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 JDBC

Spring and Hibernate

Spring and JPA

PointCuts, JoinPoints, Aspects, Adices

Before, After, AfterReturning, AfterThrowing, Around

Annotation Configuration

XML Configuration

Transaction Propagation

Declarative Transaction Management: @Transactional

Annotation Configuration, Rollback Rules, Isolation

Advisors

XML Configuration

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

Spring form tags and Model Binding, @ModelAttribute

Chain multiple View Resolvers

Handler Interceptors

Data Validation JSR303

JavaScript(JQuery) access to Controllers (brief selector overview)

URITemplates

Using @ResponseBody 

JSON and XML data exchange

HTTP GETS and POSTS

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