EC70 - Spring Framework Programming Workshop - 3 Days

Course Description

This course is targeted at application developers, already familiar with JAVA programming, looking to gain a knowledge of coding using the Spring Framework. During the course the student will write production quality examples that utilise many of the features the Spring Framework has to offer.

Pre-requisites

The student should be familiar with Java Programming. They should have a good understanding of the basic Java language and the more commonly used Java API classes. This knowledge can be gained by attending courses EC21 and EC22. Further practical experience is beneficial but not required.

Objectives

his course enables experienced Java developers to use the Spring Application Framework.

The first two days focus on the core features, namely Inversion of Control and Aspect Oriented Programming. The third day is an optional component containing the database access features of Spring, this can be one of the following, or omitted entirely making this a 2 day course:

Spring JDBC

Spring with Hibernate

Spring with iBATIS

During the course the student will write production quality applications to ensure that the subject is fully understood and practical experience is gained.

On completion of this course the student will be able to:

  • understand the benefits of using Spring
  • test application code with and without Spring
  • understand the principles of Inversion of Control and Aspect Oriented Programming
  • use Spring to replace commonly used EJB features
  • manage transactions in Spring declaratively and programmatically
  • use aspect-oriented programming to handle cross-cutting requirements
  • connect business objects to persistent stores using Spring's DAO and ORM modules (optional 3rd day)

Environment

Development will be performed using:

  • Eclipse
  • IntelliJ
  • NetBeans
  • JBuilder

Customisation

For on-site courses (i.e. at your premises), we are more than happy to tailor the course agenda to suit your exact requirements. In many cases, we are able to build your in-house standards and naming conventions into the delivered course.

Course Details

INTRODUCTION TO SPRING
What Is Included With Spring?
Inversion Of Control And Dependency Injection
Dependency Lookup
Dependency Injection
Simple Spring DI Example
Aspect Oriented Programming
Simple Spring AOP Example
Data Access With Spring
Other Data Access Tools

DEPENDENCY INJECTION AND BEAN FACTORIES
Creating A Spring Container
Bean Configuration
Setter Injection
Injecting Values
Spring 2.0 Property Injection
Constructor Injection
Constructor Issues: Using Index And Type Attributes
Injecting Collections
Injecting Maps
Injecting Lists
Injecting Properties
Injecting Sets
Spring 2.0 Collections
Bean Scopes
Singletons
Prototypes
Singleton Beans With Prototype-Bean Dependencies
Factory Methods
Static Factory Methods
Instance Factory Methods
Factory Beans
When Would You Use Factorybeans?
Bean Inheritance
Inner Beans
Bean Naming
Bean Naming Aliases
Bean Aliasing
Importing Configuration Files
Spring 2.0 Utilities

OTHER IOC FEATURES
Application Context
Beanfactory Or ApplicationContext?
Using The ApplicationContext
Creating An ApplicationContext From Multiple Files
Bean Lifecycle
Initialisation
Destruction
Method Injection
BeanFactoryAware
Property Editors
Custom Property Editors

ASPECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING
Introduction To AOP
Terminology
Join Point
Pointcut
Advice
Aspects
How Aspects Are Applied In Spring (with and without annotations)
Using Joinpoint Context
Context Selecting Pointcuts
Defining Pointcuts
Pointcuts With Annotations
Pointcut Chaining
Declaring Advice
Before Advice
AfterReturning Advice
AfterThrowing Advice
After Advice
Around Advice

SPRING DATABASE ACCESS INTRODUCTION
Resource Management
Spring Support
Configuration Of Layers

SPRING JDBC DATABASE ACCESS
JDBC Vs Spring JDBC
Exceptions
Connections And Datasources
JdbcTemplate
JdbcDaoSupport
SimpleJdbcDaoSupport
Querying For Objects
Single Row Queries
Multiple Row Queries
Object Queries And Java 5 (Spring 2.0)
Joins And The ResultsetExtractor
Calling Stored Procedures
Updating
Batch Updates

SPRING HIBERNATE DATABASE ACCESS
Introduction To Hibernate
Configuring Hibernate
Mapping Files
Simple Mapping Example
Key Generation
One-To-Many Mappings
Many-To-Many Mappings
A More Complex Many-To-Many Example
Writing Hibernate DAOs
Hibernate Query Language (HQL)
Using Annotations With Hibernate

TRANSACTION MANAGEMENT
Declarative Transactions
Spring Configuration For Declarative Transactions
XML Based Spring Transactions
Platform Transaction Manager
Programmatic Transaction Management
Isolation Levels
Transaction Propagation

Course Format

Practical sessions make up a large part of the course, allowing delegates to demonstrate and reinforce the lectures given.

Examples are used extensively, ranging from simple code 'snippets' to full applications with complete 'real world' functionality. These are supplied at the start of the course and it is encouraged that the delegates execute and 'experiment' with these under the instructor's guidance as they are introduced.

These examples are available to take away, along with the delegate's own work.

The comprehensive Student Guide supplied is fully indexed serving as a useful reference tool long after the course has finished. Delegates will also be able to access a free help-line with technical questions relating to topics covered on the course.

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