Session 1:  Introduction

Overview of Spring Technology

• Shortcomings of Java EE, Spring Architecture

Spring Introduction

• Managing Beans, The Spring Container, IoC, DI
• Configuration Metadata - XML, @Component, Auto-Detecting Beans

Dependencies and Dependency Injection (DI)

• Dependency Inversion, Dependency Injection (DI) in Spring, DI Configuration - XML, @Resource

Session 2:  More about Bean Properties

Working with Properties

• Configuring Value Properties, Property Conversions, Setter / Constructor Injection

Spring Expression Language for Configuration

Collection Valued Properties

• Configuring and using lists, sets, etc.

Additional Capabilities

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

Session 3:  The Spring Container and API

ApplicationContext

• ClassPathXmlApplicationContext, FileSystemXmlApplicationContext, Constructors, Usage

Resource Access - Overview, Resource Implementations

Validation

• Overview, JSR-303
• Declarative Validation, @NotNull, @Size, @Min, etc
• Configuration, Injection

Bean Scope and Lifecycle

• Bean Scope Defined, Configuring, Inner Beans, Bean Creation Lifecycle, Lifecycle Callbacks, BeanPostProcessor, Event Handling

MessageSources

• Defining and Using Resource Bundles, Localization/I18N

Annotation Driven Configuration

• Stereotypes: @Component, @Service, @Controller, @Repository
• Java EE 5 Annotation Support
• Defining Custom Annotations
• Autowiring
• @Autowired on setters, constructures, methods, fields
• Injecting resources like ApplicationContext
• Fine tuning with @Qualifier

Java Based Bean Metadata (JavaConfig)

• Overview - code-centric Configuration
• @Confguration, @Bean, and @Value
• Importing and @Import
• Autowiring in Configuration Classes
• Mixing XML Configuraiton and @Configuration
• XML vs Annotation Based Configuration

Other Capabilities

• SpEL - Spring Expression LanguageValidation

Session 4:  Database Access with Spring

Issues with JDBC / 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

• Overview of Template Approach, SessionFactory configuration

Using Contextual Sessions

• Using Spring with JPA
• LocalEntityManagerFactoryBean, LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean, JNDI, PersistenceUnitManager
• DAO Support - @PersistenceUnit, @PersistenceContext

Session 5:  Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP)

Overview of AOP

• AOP Basics, Aspect, Joinpoint, Advice, Pointcut

Introduction to Spring AOP

• Capabilities, Configuration (Annotation Based and XML), Weaving, Joinpoints

Using Aspects

• Defining Advice, Configuring Pointcuts, Targets and Proxies
• XML Configuration with <aop:>
• AspectJ Pointcuts, Autoproxies

Using @AspectJ Annotations

• @ApsectJ 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:  Introduction to Spring Web Integration

Integrating Spring with Java EE Web Apps

• ContextLoaderListener
• WebApplicationContext
• Using Spring beans in Wep app controller logic

Session 8:  Overview of Spring Security

Overview - Capabilities, Architecture

Introduction to Spring Security

• HTTP Security
• Method Security
• Annotation-Based Security
• Expression-Based Access Control

Authentication Providers