Get a concise introduction to Spring, the increasingly popular open source framework for building lightweight enterprise applications on the Java platform. This example-driven book for Java developers delves into the framework's basic features, as well as advanced concepts such as containers. You'll learn how Spring makes Java Messaging Service easier to work with, and how its support for Hibernate helps you work with data persistence and retrieval.

Throughout Just Spring, you'll get your hands deep into sample code, beginning with a problem that illustrates dependency injection, Spring's core principle. In the chapters that follow, author Madhusudhan Konda walks you through features that underlie the solution.

• Learn dependency injection through a simple object coupling problem, along with different injection types
• Tackle the framework's core fundamentals, including beans and bean factories
• Dive into containers and other advanced concepts, such as event handling and autowiring beans
• Discover how Spring makes the Java Messaging Service API easier to use
• Learn how Spring has revolutionized data access with Java DataBase Connectivity (JDBC)
• Use Spring with the Hibernate framework to manipulate data as objects

Summary

Totally revised for Spring 3.0, this book is a hands-on guide to the Spring Framework. It covers the latest features, tools, and practices including Spring MVC, REST, Security, Web Flow, and more. Following short code snippets and an ongoing example developed throughout the book, you'll learn how to build simple and efficient J2EE applications.

Spring Framework is required knowledge for Java developers, and Spring 3.0 introduces powerful new features like SpEL, the Spring Expression Language, new annotations for the IoC container, and much-needed support for REST. Whether you're just discovering Spring or you want to absorb the new 3.0 features, there's no better way to master Spring than this book.

Spring in Action, Third Edition continues the practical, hands-on style of the previous bestselling editions. Author Craig Walls has a special knack for crisp and entertaining examples that zoom in on the features and techniques you really need. This edition highlights the most important aspects of Spring 3.0 including REST, remote services, messaging, Security, MVC, Web Flow, and more.

• Using annotations to reduce configuration
• Working with RESTful resources
• Spring Expression Language (SpEL)
• Security, Web Flow, and more

Nearly 100,000 developers have used this book to learn Spring!

PART 1 CORE SPRING

1. Springing into action
2. Wiring beans
3. Minimizing XML configuration in Spring
4. Aspect-oriented Spring

PART 2 SPRING APPLICATION ESSENTIALS

5. Hitting the database
6. Managing transactions
7. Building web applications with Spring MVC
8. Working with Spring Web Flow
9. Securing Spring

PART 3 INTEGRATING SPRING

10. Working with remote services
11. Giving Spring some REST
12. Messaging in Spring
13. Managing Spring beans with JMX
14. Odds and ends