Spring in Action, 3rd Edition

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.

About the Technology

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.

About the 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.

Purchase of the print book comes with an offer of a free PDF, ePub, and Kindle eBook from Manning. Also available is all code from the book.

What’s Inside

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

Who Should Read This Book

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

Table of Contents

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

Part 2 Spring application essentials
Chapter 5 Hitting the database
Chapter 6 Managing transactions
Chapter 7 Building web applications with Spring MVC
Chapter 8 Working with Spring Web Flow
Chapter 9 Securing Spring

Part 3 Integrating Spring
Chapter 10 Working with remote services
Chapter 11 Giving Spring some REST
Chapter 12 Messaging in Spring
Chapter 13 Managing Spring beans with JMX
Chapter 14 Odds and ends