Spring Framework Workshop

Course Number:  717-JK
Recommended Duration:  4 days

Intended Audience
Java developers who will use Spring to create applications using the Spring framework.

Course Overview
Students learn to create applications using the Spring Framework. Learning how and when to use Spring modules is an important skill practiced in the workshops. Spring encourages use of simple, easy-to-use Plain-Old-Java-Objects (POJOs) to solve business problems. This course will focus on creating workable applications using only those parts of the Spring framework that are necessary.  Course covers Spring 2.5 and may also cover Spring 2.0 or Spring 1.2.

Prerequisites
Java developers with experience creating JSPs and Servlets (or who have completed basic Java and Java EE training).

Topics

• Spring Framework

• Spring architecture

• Spring application components

• Inversion of Control (IoC)

• Dependency Injection (DI)

• Object creation with Spring bean factory

• Bean creation and scope

• Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP)

• Evaluating the benefits of AOP

• AspectJ

• Spring command objects

• Spring custom tags

• Web Application Contexts

• Building aspects with POJOs & XML

• Data Access with Spring

• Spring Java Persistence API (JPA)

• JDBC templates

• Abstracting the Data Access Layer

• Data Access Object (DAO)

• Java EE transaction support

• Spring MVC

• Spring JSP support

• Persisting Objects with Hibernate

• Validation and Validators

• Component testings