Spring Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach, Second Edition [Paperback]

With over 3 Million users/developers, Spring Framework is the leading “out of the box” Java framework. Spring addresses and offers simple solutions for most aspects of your Java/Java EE application development, and guides you to use industry best practices to design and implement your applications.

The release of Spring Framework 3 has ushered in many improvements and new features. Spring Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach, Second Edition continues upon the bestselling success of the previous edition but focuses on the latest Spring 3 features for building enterprise Java applications. This book provides elementary to advanced code recipes to account for the following, found in the new Spring 3:

• Spring fundamentals: Spring IoC container, Spring AOP/ AspectJ, and more
• Spring enterprise: Spring Java EE integration, Spring Integration, Spring Batch, jBPM with Spring, Spring Remoting, messaging, transactions, scaling using Terracotta and GridGrain, and more.
• Spring web: Spring MVC, Spring Web Flow 2, Spring Roo, other dynamic scripting, integration with popular Grails Framework (and Groovy), REST/web services, and more.

This book guides you step by step through topics using complete and real-world code examples. Instead of abstract descriptions on complex concepts, you will find live examples in this book. When you start a new project, you can consider copying the code and configuration files from this book, and then modifying them for your needs. This can save you a great deal of work over creating a project from scratch!

What you’ll learn

• How to use the IoC container and the Spring application context to best effect.
• Spring’s AOP support, both classic and new Spring AOP, integrating Spring with AspectJ, and load-time weaving.
• Simplifying data access with Spring (JDBC, Hibernate, and JPA) and managing transactions both programmatically and declaratively.
• Spring’s support for remoting technologies (RMI, Hessian, Burlap, and HTTP Invoker), EJB, JMS, JMX, email, batch, scheduling, and scripting languages.
• Integrating legacy systems with Spring, building highly concurrent, grid-ready applications using Gridgain and Terracotta Web Apps, and even creating cloud systems.
• Building modular services using OSGi with Spring DM and Spring Dynamic Modules and SpringSource dm Server.
• Delivering web applications with Spring Web Flow, Spring MVC, Spring Portals, Struts, JSF, DWR, the Grails framework, and more.
• Developing web services using Spring WS and REST; contract-last with XFire, and contract–first through Spring Web Services.
• Spring’s unit and integration testing support (on JUnit 3.8, JUnit 4, and TestNG).
• How to secure applications using Spring Security.

Who this book is for

This book is for Java developers who would like to rapidly gain hands-on experience with Java/Java EE development using the Spring framework. If you are already a developer using Spring in your projects, you can also use this book as a reference—you’ll find the code examples very useful.

Gary Mak, founder and chief consultant of Meta-Archit Software Technology Limited, has been a technical architect and application developer on the enterprise Java platform for over seven years. He is the author of the Apress books Spring Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach and Pro SpringSource dm Server. In his career, Gary has developed a number of Java-based software projects, most of which are application frameworks, system infrastructures, and software tools. He enjoys designing and implementing the complex parts of software projects. Gary has a master’s degree in computer science. His research interests include object-oriented technology, aspect-oriented technology, design patterns, software reuse, and domain-driven development.

Gary specializes in building enterprise applications on technologies including Spring, Hibernate, JPA, JSF, Portlet, AJAX, and OSGi. He has been using the Spring Framework in his projects for five years, since Spring version 1.0. Gary has been an instructor of courses on enterprise Java, Spring, Hibernate, Web Services, and agile development. He has written a series of Spring and Hibernate tutorials as course materials, parts of which are open to the public, and they’re gaining popularity in the Java community. In his spare time, he enjoys playing tennis and watching tennis competitions.

Daniel Rubio is an independent consultant with over 10 years of experience in enterprise and web–based software. More recently, Daniel is founder and technical lead at MashupSoft.com.

Josh Long is an enterprise architect, developer, consultant, speaker and author. When he's not hacking on code, he can be found at the local Java User Group or at the local coffee shop. Josh likes building solutions that push the boundaries of the technologies that enable them. His interests include scalability, BPM, grid processing, mobile computing and so-called “smart” systems. Josh is a Sun certified Java programmer with many years of experience. Josh has been using the Spring framework since it debuted and has followed with excitement as the Spring framework has in recent years started to advance the state of the art, not just facilitate it. Josh lives in sunny Southern California with his wife. He maintains a blog where can be reached at http://www.joshlong.com.