Spring Training in Coimbatore

Overview of Spring Technology

• Shortcomings of Java EE, Spring Architecture

Spring Introduction

• Managing Beans, The Spring Container, IoC, DI
• Configuration Metadata – XML, @Component, Auto-Detecting Beans

Dependencies and Dependency Injection (DI)

• Dependency Inversion, Dependency Injection (DI) in Spring, DI Configuration – XML, @Resource

Working with Bean Properties

• Configuring Value Properties, Property Conversions, Setter / Constructor Injection

Spring Expression Language for Configuration

Collection Valued Properties

• Configuring and using lists, sets, etc.

Additional Capabilities

• Factory Methods, Bean Aliases, Definition Inheritance (Parent Beans)

The Spring Container and API

• ApplicationContext
• ClassPathXmlApplicationContext, FileSystemXmlApplicationContext, Constructors, Usage
• Resource Access – Overview, Resource Implementations
• Validation
• Overview, JSR-303
• Declarative Validation, @NotNull, @Size, @Min, etc
• Configuration, Injection
• Bean Scope and Lifecycle
• Bean Scope Defined, Configuring, Inner Beans, Bean Creation Lifecycle, Lifecycle Callbacks, BeanPostProcessor, Event Handling
• MessageSources
• Defining and Using Resource Bundles, Localization/I18N
• Annotation Driven Configuration
• Stereotypes: @Component, @Service, @Controller, @Repository
• Java EE 5 Annotation Support
• Defining Custom Annotations
• Autowiring
• Java Based Bean Metadata (JavaConfig)
• Overview – code-centric Configuration
• @Confguration, @Bean, and @Value
• Importing and @Import
• Autowiring in Configuration Classes
• Mixing XML Configuraiton and @Configuration
• XML vs Annotation Based Configuration
• Other Capabilities
• SpEL – Spring Expression Language
• Validation

Database Access with Spring

• Issues with JDBC / Typical JDBC Flow
• Introduction to Spring DAO Support
• Spring Database API, (Simple)JdbcTemplate, (Simple)JdbcDaoSupport, DataSources,
• Working With and Configuring, <list>, <set>, With Bean Refs, <map>, <props>
• Queries and Inserts
• RowMapper, ParameterizedRowMapper, Passing Arguments, queryForObject, query, update
• Additional API Capabilities
• Additional query methods, Passing Type Arguments, queryForList, FetchSize, MaxRows
• Using Spring with Hibernate
• Overview of Template Approach, SessionFactory configuration
• Using Contextual Sessions
• Using Spring with JPA
• LocalEntityManagerFactoryBean, LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean, JNDI, PersistenceUnitManager
• DAO Support – @PersistenceUnit, @PersistenceContext

Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP)

• Overview of AOP
• AOP Basics, Aspect, Joinpoint, Advice, Pointcut
• Introduction to Spring AOP
• Capabilities, Configuration (Annotation Based and XML), Weaving, Joinpoints
• Using Aspects
• Defining Advice, Configuring Pointcuts, Targets and Proxies
• XML Configuration with <aop:>
• AspectJ Pointcuts, Autoproxies
• Using @AspectJ Annotations

Spring Transaction (TX) Management

• Intro to Spring Transaction Management
• Overview, Component TX Model, TX Propagation, Declarative Transactions, TransactionManagers
• Using Spring Transactions
• Annotation Configured Transactions
• @Transactional and its settings
• XML Configured Transactions
• new <tx:*> elements, Configuring tx:advice, and tx:attributes
• Defining the TX advisor

Introduction to Spring Web Integration and Spring MVC

• Integrating Spring with Java EE Web Apps, ContextLoaderListener, WebApplicationContext
• Spring Web MVC Overview, Capabilities, Architecture
• Spring MVC Basics
• DispatcherServlet, Configuration, mvc Namespace
• Controllers, @Controller, Handler Methods
• @RequestParam and Parameter Binding
• View Resolvers
• Writing Controllers, @Controller, @RequestMapping, @RequestParam, @PathVariable
• Forms and Binding, Spring Form Tags, @ModelAttribute
• Session Attributes, @SessionAttributes

Overview of Spring Security

• Overview – Capabilities, Architecture
• Introduction to Spring Security
• HTTP Security
• Method Security
• Annotation-Based Security
• Expression-Based Access Control
• Authentication Providers