Instructor-led training

Fast Track to Spring 2.x and Spring Web Flow 2

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What you'll learn

The course goes on to cover all the important capabilities of Spring 2.0/2.5, including using Spring to simplify the creation of a persistence layer with JDBC and/or persistence frameworks like Hibernate, and using Spring's Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) to program cross-cutting concerns such as transactions and security. Understand the core principles of Spring, and of Dependency Injection (DI)/Inversion of Control. Use the Spring Core module and DI to configure and wire application objects (beans) together Understand and use the complete capabilities of the Core module, such as lifecycle events, bean scopes, and the Spring API. Work with the DAO and/or ORM modules to create a well structured persistence layer with JDBC or Hibernate. Understand and use Spring 2.x's powerful new AOP capabilities for programming cross-cutting concerns across multiple points in an application. Understand and use Spring's transaction support, including Spring 2.x's easy to use tx/aop XML configuration elements, and Java 5 annotations. Understand how Spring MVC works, and how to build well-structured Web applications with it Understand and use Spring Web Flow 2 to define user interface flow in Web applications. Understand the basics of Spring Security, and how to secure Web apps and Spring managed beans with it.

Prerequisites

A good working knowledge of basic Java.

Course Outline

Session 1:

Introduction

Overview of Spring Technology

Shortcomings of Java EE, Spring Architecture

Spring Introduction

Managing Beans, Configuration Metadata, The Spring Container, IoC, DI

Dependencies and Dependency Injection (DI)

Dependency Inversion, Dependency Injection (DI) in Spring, DI Configuration, Advantages

Session 2:

More about Bean Properties

Working with Properties

Configuring Value Properties, Property Conversions, Setter / Constructor Injection

Collection Valued Properties

Configuring and Using <list>, <set>, <map>, <props>

Additional Capabilities

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

Session 3:

The Spring Container and API

ApplicationContext

ClassPathXmlApplicationContext, FileSystemXmlApplicationContext, Constructors, Usage

Resource Access

Overview, Resource Implementations

Bean Scope and Lifecycle

Bean Scope Defined, Configuring, Inner Beans, Bean Creation Lifecycle, Using the Lifecycle Interfaces (e.g. BeanFactoryAware), BeanPostProcessor, Even Handling

MessageSources

Defining and Using Resource Bundles, Localization/I18N

Annotation Driven Configuration

@Required, RequiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor

Dependency Injection with @Resource

@Component, Auto-Detecting Beans, Other Stereotypes

Session 4:

Database Access with Spring

Issues with JDBC

Examination of 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

HibernateTemplate, LocalSessionFactoryBean, Hibernate Configuration, HibernateDaoSupport,

Configuring a Hibernate DAO

HibenateTemplate Query Methods, Using HibernateCallback, Using Contextual Sessions

Session 5:

Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP)

Overview of AOP

AOP Basics, Aspect, Joinpoint, Advice, Pointcut

Introduction to Spring AOP

Capabilities, New 2.x Configuration (XML and @AspectJ), Weaving, Joinpoints

Using Aspects

XML Configuration with <aop:>

Defining Advice, Configuring Pointcuts, Targets and Proxies

AspectJ Pointcuts, Autoproxies

Using @AspectJ Annotations

@AspectJ Annotations, Declaring Advice

Session 6:

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

Session 7:

Overview of Spring Web MVC

Overview - Capabilities, Architecture

Introduction to Spring MVC

DispatcherServlet, Handlers, HandlerMappings

Command Controllers, Commands, View Resolvers

Forms

Spring Form Tags, Writing/Processing Forms

Session 8:

Overview of Spring Security

Overview - Capabilities, Architecture

Introduction to Spring Security

HTTP Security

Method Security

Authentication Providers

Session 9:

Introduction to Spring Web Flow 2

Overview - Need for Flow, Capabilities, Architecture

Defining Flows

XML Flow Definition Language

Flows, States, and Transitions

Accesing Flows in Web Pages

Exiting Flows - flowRedirect and externalRedirect

Configuring Web Flow - Flow Executor, Flow Registry, Integration with Spring MVC

Working with Data - Flow Instance Variables, Flow Inputs

View Pages and Model Binding

Flow Actions - evaluate, set, and render

Session 10: