Introducing the Spring Framework

Spring architecture fundamentals

• Identifying Spring application components
• Injecting dependencies with Inversion of Control (IoC)

Deploying components in the Spring container

• Delegating component creation to the Spring bean factory
• Wiring beans with XML

Simplifying data access with JDBC templates

• Streamlining code with JDBC templates
• Structuring queries and callbacks
• Retrieving JDBC data sources

Data Access Object (DAO) pattern

• Maintaining a consistent data interface
• Integrating Spring DAO implementations with the business service layer

Leveraging Spring Design Patterns

Spring and Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP)

• Evaluating the benefits of AOP
• Utilising Spring advice types
• Integrating advice types with Spring pointcuts
• Reducing errors by applying advice automatically

Spring Web MVC framework

• Analysing Spring Model View Controller (MVC) architecture
• Building on the Spring controllers
• Resolving views with ViewResolvers
• Configuring request processing flow using URL mappers

Managing Transactions

Analysing Java EE transaction support

• Defining transaction properties
• Explicit transaction management

Applying Spring transaction strategies

• Controlling transactions with the Spring TransactionTemplate
• Declaring transaction policies with XML and annotations

Accessing Enterprise Services

Remote Method Invocation (RMI)

• Connecting to application services with RMI
• Exporting services with Spring

Building Web services

• Working with WSDL to access a service
• Deploying Web services with Spring

Persisting Objects with Hibernate

Integrating Hibernate

• Simplifying data access with O/R mapping
• Unravelling the Hibernate architecture
• Deploying and configuring Hibernate

Generating Hibernate applications

• Developing the persistent class
• Defining the Hibernate mapping rules
• Storing and retrieving Java objects

Handling Complex Object Relationships

The role of the Hibernate Session

• Establishing a thread-safe session object
• Defining object states: transient, persistent, detached

Mapping collections

• Persisting and retrieving collections
• Preserving collection order for data integrity

Strategies for building object associations

• Specifying one-to-many and many-to-many relationships
• Controlling the association life cycle

Effectively mapping inheritance relationships

• Applying class rules for inheritance
• Techniques for class-database mapping

Optimising Data Access

Applying Hibernate Query Language (HQL)

• Selecting and filtering queries
• Improving structure with named queries
• Augmenting HQL with native SQL

Maximising Hibernate performance

• Accelerating data access via Hibernate cache
• Monitoring performance with Java Management Extensions (JMX)

Integrating Spring and Hibernate

• Employing the Spring Hibernate template
• Configuring Hibernate resources in Spring