Spring addresses most aspects of Java/Java EE application development and offers simple solutions to them. By using Spring, you will be lead to use industry best practices to design and implement your applications. The releases of Spring 2.x have added many improvements and new features to the 1.x versions. Spring Recipes: A Problem–Solution Approach focuses on the latest Spring 2.5 features for building enterprise Java applications.

Spring Recipes covers Spring 2.5 from basic to advanced, including Spring IoC container, Spring AOP and AspectJ, Spring data access support, Spring transaction management, Spring Web and Portlet MVC, Spring testing support, Spring support for remoting, EJB, JMS, JMX, E–mail, scheduling, and scripting languages. This book also introduces several common Spring Portfolio projects that will bring significant value to your application development, including Spring Security, Spring Web Flow, and Spring Web Services.

The topics in this book are introduced by complete and real–world code examples that you can follow step by step. 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

• Installing the Spring framework and Spring IDE, using the Spring IoC container and the Spring application context.

• Understanding AOP concepts, using classic and new Spring AOP, integrating Spring with AspectJ, and load–time weaving aspects.
• Using Spring to simplify data access (with JDBC, Hibernate, and JPA) and manage transactions programmatically and declaratively.
• Building web applications and portlets with Spring Web MVC and Portlet MVC, and integrating Spring with Struts, JSF, and DWR.
• Understanding the unit testing and integration testing concepts, and Spring’s unit and integration testing support (on JUnit 3.8, JUnit 4, and TestNG).
• Using Spring’s support for remoting technologies (RMI, Hessian, Burlap, and HTTP Invoker), EJB, JMS, JMX, E-mail, scheduling, and scripting languages.
• Understanding security concepts (authentication, authorization, and access control), and securing web applications using Spring Security.
• Managing complex web application page flows using Spring Web Flow, and integrating Spring Web Flow with JSF.
• Exposing contract–last web services using XFire, and developing contract–first web services using Spring Web Services.



Who is this book for?

This book is for Java developers who would like to gain hands–on experience rapidly on 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, and you’ll find the code examples very useful.

You don’t need much Java EE experience to read this book. However, it assumes that you know the basics of object–oriented programming with Java (e.g., creating a class/interface, implementing an interface, extending a base class, running a main class, setting up your classpath, and so on). It also assumes you have basic knowledge on web and database concepts and know how to create dynamic web pages and query databases with SQL statements.

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The SpringSource dm Server™ is a completely modular, OSGi-based Java server designed to run enterprise Java applications and Spring-powered applications with a new degree of flexibility and reliability. The SpringSource dm Server is based on the new SpringSource Dynamic Module Kernel™ (dm Kernel). The dm Kernel provides a module-based backbone for the server, which also harnesses the power of Spring, Apache Tomcat, and OSGi—based technologies.

Pro SpringSource dm Server™ is the first book available for learning how to develop and deploy modular applications to run on the new SpringSource dm Server 2.0 deployment platform, just released.

• This book covers everything you need from basic OSGi concepts to developing and deploying OSGi-based applications on the SpringSource dm Server.
• This book demonstrates how to migrate an existing web application from a standard WAR to a shared libraries WAR, a shared services WAR, and finally a web module.
• The topics in this book are introduced by complete and real–world examples that you can follow step by step. Instead of abstract descriptions on complex concepts, you will find live examples in this book.

What you’ll learn

• Understanding what OSGi is and why we need it
• Using Spring Dynamic Modules to develop OSGi–based applications
• An overview of the SpringSource dm Server
• Setting up and configuring the platform
• Developing OSGi bundles and web applications for the platform
• Tracing and monitoring applications running on the platform

Who is this book for?

This book is for Java developers and deployers who would like to develop modular Java applications using OSGi and deploy them to run on the SpringSource dm Server. You don’t need much experience to read this book. However, it assumes that you understand Spring Framework fundamentals and have experience developing Java applications.

About the Apress Pro Series

The Apress Pro series books are practical, professional tutorials to keep you on and moving up the professional ladder.

You have gotten the job, now you need to hone your skills in these tough competitive times. The Apress Pro series expands your skills and expertise in exactly the areas you need. Master the content of a Pro book, and you will always be able to get the job done in a professional development project. Written by experts in their field, Pro series books from Apress give you the hard–won solutions to problems you will face in your professional programming career.

The Spring Framework is a widely adopted enterprise and general Java framework. The release of Spring Framework 3.0 has added many improvements and new features for Spring development. Written by Gary Mak of the best-selling Spring Recipes and Josh Long, an expert Spring user and developer, Spring Enterprise Recipes is one of the first books on the new Spring 3.

This key book focuses on Spring Framework 3.0, the latest version available, and a framework-related suite of tools, extensions, plug-ins, modules, and more—all of which you may want and need for building three-tier Java EE applications.

• Build Spring enterprise and Java EE applications from the ground up using Recipes from this book as templates to get you started, fast.
• Employ Spring Integration, Spring Batch and jBPM with Spring to bring your application’s architecture to the next level.
• Use Spring’s remoting, and messaging support to distribute your application, or bring your application to the cloud with GridGain and Terracotta.

What you’ll learn

• Integrate legacy systems with Spring, bridging the gaps with Spring’s JMS support and Spring Integration.
• Use Spring Batch to insulate yourself from the tedious, hard-to-test code required to efficiently handle offline or batch processing scenarios.
• Build highly concurrent, grid-ready applications using Gridgain and Terracotta
• Build modular services using OSGi with Spring DM and Spring Dynamic Modules and SpringSource dm Server. Take the lightweight philosophy of the Spring framework to its logical extension. The Spring framework brings you all of the power of JEE, à la carte!
• Integrate Spring with Java EE 5 and 6 APIs and services
• How to leverage job scheduling, and e-mail services using Spring's abstractions.

Who is this book for?

A new breed of applications are in demand today. These applications are either simply not supported by JEE, or the support is tedious, and not reflective of modern day architectures. This book is for those with a working knowledge of Java and Spring who would like to take their skills, and their applications, to the next level.