Getting started with Spring Framework: a hands-on guide to begin developing applications using Spring Framework

  
You can download the examples (consisting of 60 sample projects) described in this book from the following Google Code project: code.google.com/p/getting-started-with-spring-framework-2edition/

Chapter 1 - Introduction to Spring Framework
Chapter 2 - Spring Framework basics
Chapter 3 - Configuring beans
Chapter 4 - Dependency injection
Chapter 5 - Customizing beans and bean definitions
Chapter 6 - Annotation-driven development with Spring
Chapter 7 - Database interaction using Spring
Chapter 8 - Messaging, emailing, asynchronous method execution, and caching using Spring
Chapter 9 - Aspect-oriented programming
Chapter 10 - Spring Web MVC basics
Chapter 11 - Validation and data binding in Spring Web MVC
Chapter 12 - Developing RESTful web services using Spring Web MVC
Chapter 13 - More Spring Web MVC - internationalization, file upload and asynchronous request processing
Chapter 14 - Securing applications using Spring Security

This book covers:
- Specifying configuration metadata using XML and annotations
- Programmatically configuring Spring container and beans
- Configuring different types of bean properties
- Bean lifecycle interfaces
- Customizing beans using BeanPostProcessors and BeanFactoryPostProcessors
- Bean definition inheritance
- JSR 250's and 330's annotations for dependency injection
- Validation using JSR 303 (Bean Validation API) annotations and Spring's Validator interface
- SpEL (Spring Expression Language)
- Caching using Spring's cache abstraction
- Sending and receiving JMS messages using Spring
- Aspect-oriented programming support in Spring
- Sending emails using Spring
- Asynchronously executing methods using Spring
- Task scheduling
- Database interaction using JDBC and Hibernate
- Programmatic and declarative transaction management
- Spring Web MVC
- Developing RESTful Web Services using Spring
- Spring Security

The book shows a simple internet banking application that is developed incrementally in each chapter of the book and covers the topics mentioned above.
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