Complete Spring Framework Training Course

This intensive 5-day training course is designed to give students the most complete deep-dive into the Spring Framework and its goodies.

The course examines the motivation behind Spring, explains its core concepts (IOC, Dependency Injection, AOP, etc.), and through a series of hands-on examples and labs demonstrates the superiority of the framework, its features, integration points, and best practices.

The students start off as Spring newbies, but cross the finish line as Spring experts!

Experienced enterprise Java developers, architects, and quality assurance engineers who want to learn how to take advantage of the Spring Framework in their own applications.

Students taking this course must have solid Java/OOP experience and should be familiar with Java enterprise (Java EE) technologies/frameworks such as JMS, JDBC, JTA, ORM (Hibernate), JMX, Servlets/JSPs, etc.

The lecture to hands-on ratio for this course is 50-50%.

Note that this course is designed to be customized such that some sections can be removed/deemphasized while others can be added/given more focus. Additionally, the course can be taught on most major Java EE application servers: Tomcat, JBoss, WebLogic, WebSphere, etc.

Why Spring Framework?

• What's wrong with Java EE (EJB)
• Light-weight vs. heavy-weight containers
• Motivation for Spring
• Spring Background

Spring Framework Overview

• Spring features
• Spring light-weight container architecture
• Spring application context
• Inversion of Control (IoC) design pattern
• Dependency Injection (DI)
• Advantages of IoC/DI
  • Design for testability
  • Low coupling
  • Code re-use
  • Consistent architecture and configuration
  • Easy-to-follow design
  • Good OOP

Spring Installation and Configuration

• Spring libraries and dependancies
• XML configuration files
• Annotations

Spring IDE

• Overview
• Features
• Installation
• Editors, Wizards, Graphs, Views, Validators

Spring Persistence/DAO Support

• Overview
• JDBC
  • DataSources via JNDI
  • Templates
  • Exception Translators
  • Queries and updates
• Hibernate ORM
  • Resource management and SessionFactory
  • Templates
  • Exception Translators
  • Transactions (intro to AOP)
  • API

Spring JMS

• Overview
• Templates
• Connection, Destination, Transaction management
• Sending and Receiving Messages (sync/async)
• Listeners
• Message-driven POJOs

Spring Testing

• Unit Testing
• Integration Testing
• Mocks, Stubs, Fixtures
• jUnit Integration
• Spring TestContext Framework

Spring MVC and WebFlow

• Overview
• The DispatcherServlet
• Configuration
• Controllers: simple, form, multi-action
• Views and view resolution: JSP/JSTL
• Forms with Spring tag libraries
• Data-binding, Property Editors, and Validation
• I18N
• Exception handling
• Convention over configuration with annotation-driven controllers
• Overview of Spring WebFlow
• Integration with other frameworks - e.g. Sturts, JSF, Tapestry, WebWork (as requested)

Spring AOP

• Overview
• Concepts
• Proxies
• @AspectJ vs Spring AOP
• API
• Built-in aspects
• Defining and using aspects

Spring Security (Acegi) Framework

• Overview
• Installation
• Architecture
• Configuration
• Web Security
• AOP-based security
• Integration

Final Thoughts

• Overview of Spring JMX
• Overview of Spring Remoting
• New features in Spring 2.5
• Annotation vs. XML configuration (wiring)
• Direction of Spring Framework
• Best practices and architectural/design patterns