Developing with the Spring Framework Training Course

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Developing with the Spring Framework Training Summary

This intensive and highly practical 4-day Spring Framework training course is designed and developed by Rod Johnson, the father of Spring, and by the Spring Framework team: Interface21. This is training from the source!

Developing with the Spring Framework Training Objectives

In this four-day Spring Framework Development training course you learn how to use the Spring Framework to create well-designed, testable business applications in an agile manner. This Spring course not only focuses on explaining Spring features and how to use them, but also on fundamental architectural issues. It's important to know how to use certain parts of a framework, but it's even more important to be able to decide when to use them.

The Spring Lightweight Container Architecture, including Inversion of Control Agile, domain-driven design techniques with Spring
Effective JDBC and Hibernate data access
Declarative transaction management
Pragmatic AOP
Unit testing in isolation
Rapid system integration testing
Spring Web MVC
Spring Security, Remoting, and JMX

Audience for Developing with the Spring Framework Training

Experienced Java Developers who need to learn how to develop and use the Spring Framework.

Developing with the Spring Framework Training Prerequisites

This course assumes that participants have the a good understanding of Object Oriented programming and the core Java APIs (equivalent to Skills Matter's Object Oriented Programming with Java course), as well as a basic knowledge of general J2EE concepts and APIs, such as JTA and the Servlet API. As we cover object-relational mapping technologies (ORM) in this course as well, we assume basic knowledge of ORM concepts. After you register, an Skills Matter or Interface21 staff members will be happy to recommend any necessary training or reading to ensure that you get maximum value from the training.

Additional Notes for Developing with the Spring Framework Training

Since this class focuses on Spring as well as the theory of developing lightweight applications that are maintainable and extensible from the ground up, it is 40% theory-oriented. There is 60% lab-work.

Developing with the Spring Framework Training Outline

Day 1 - Agile J2EE: Foundations

Introduction to the lightweight container architecture and the Spring Application Context
How Dependency Injection and TDD allow you to develop consistently structured, highly configurable, easily testable applications quickly
How Spring helps you write better, more cohesive code, with a discussion on relevant OO design patterns

Day 2 - Effective Middle-tier Architecture

Interactive, middle-tier design session with a realistic business case
Effective persistence: how to build a persistence layer with Spring in best-practice fashion
Analysis and tradeoffs of relevant persistence strategies, including Hibernate, TopLink, JDO, iBATIS, and Spring JDBC
Transaction management strategies with Spring at the service layer
Middle-tier unit and integration test strategies

Day 3 - Effective web architecture and design

Illustration of Spring MVC's value-add capabilities with a realistic sample application
Comparison with Struts
Integration points with JSF and Tapestry, and when they might be appropriate
Spring Web Flow, how to capture controlled navigations as reusable modules
Integrating other view technologies such as JSP, PDF, Excel, Velocity, and Freemarker
Effective web-tier unit and integration test strategies

Day 4 - Scaling up with AOP and Spring Enterprise Services

Pragmatic Spring AOP in the middle-tier, with examples and without buzzwords
Developing custom aspects with Spring
Applying targeted advice at groups of Spring-managed services automatically
Web, service-level, and instance level security with Acegi
Transparent web services with Spring Remoting
Building in manageability with Spring JMX