Introducing Spring Framework: A Primer

Introducing Spring Framework is your hands-on guide to learning to build applications using the Spring Framework. The book uses a simple My Documents application that you will develop incrementally over the course of the book and covers:

• How to programmatically configure the Spring container and beans
• How to use annotations for dependency injection
• How to use collections and custom types
• How to customize and configure bean properties and bean lifecycle interfaces
• How to handle metadata using XML, annotations, and the Groovy bean reader
• How to use the new Spring Boot and Spring XD

After reading this book, you will have all you need to start using the Spring Framework effectively.

What you’ll learn

• Send and receive JMS messages using Spring
• Use the Spring unit testing features
• Send and receive AMQP messages using Spring with RabbitMQ
• Utilize aspect-oriented programming in Spring
• Integrate the Spring Framework using JDBC and NoSQL databases like MongoDB
• Create web applications and expose REST APIs
• Use email and schedule tasks with Spring
• Use Spring and Groovy together

Who this book is for

This book is meant for developers with little or no knowledge of the Spring Framework.  At least some experience with Java programming is required.

Table of Contents

Part I – Spring Framework Basics1. Your First Spring Application
Chapter 1. Your First Spring Application
Chapter 2. Working with Classes and Dependencies
Chapter 3. Applying Different Configurations
Chapter 4. Using Bean Scopes
Chapter 5. Working with Collections and Custom Types
Chapter 6. Using Resource Files
Chapter 7. Testing Your Spring Application

Part II – Spring Framework
Chapter 8. Give Advice to Your Spring Application
Chapter 9. Adding Persistence to Your Spring Application
Chapter 10. Showing Your Spring Application on the Web
Chapter 11. Integrating Your Spring Application with External Systems
Chapter 12. Exposing a REST API
Chapter 13. Adding E-mail and Scheduling Tasks

Part III – Spring Framework Advanced
Chapter 14. Using Dynamic Languages
Chapter 15. Spring Data Within Your Spring Application
Chapter 16. Messaging with Your Spring Application
Chapter 17. Be Social and Go Mobile

Part IV – Spring I/O
Chapter 18. Spring and Groovy
Chapter 19. Spring Boot, Simplifying Everything
Chapter 20. Your First Spring XD Application

Appendix A: Tools