• Use the Spring Framework and related web technologies to develop powerful Web applications
• Use Spring Web Flow to implement stateful interactions
• Secure Web applications with Spring Security
• Test Web applications for correctness and performance
• Create rich Web user interfaces with Ajax and JQuery
• Use Spring Roo to create a Spring Web application in minutes
• Use the VMware® SpringSource® Tool Suite and Spring Insight

Development Environment

• Eclipse (SpringSource Tool Suite distribution)
• Apache Tomcat/VMware® vFabric™ tc Server
• Spring Insight
• Testing tools

Spring Overview

• Introduction to Spring configuration
• Bean life cycle
• Simplifying configuration
• Integration testing with Spring

Getting Started with Spring Web MVC

• Spring model-view-controller (MVC) overview
• DispatcherServlet
• Controller programming model overview
• Spring MVC views
• Simplifying configuration

Spring MVC Configuration Options

• Spring MVC infrastructure Beans
• URL mappings
• Handler interceptors and handler adapters
• Exception resolvers
• Message source

Managing Layouts in Spring MVC

• Page layout and structure
• Creating reusable templates with Apache tiles
• Configuring tiles in Spring MVC

Using Views in Spring MVC

• Views and view resolvers
• Setting up a view resolver chain
• Alternating views
• JSON views

Building Rich Web Applications with Ajax

• Ajax and Spring MVC
• Using JavaScript frameworks
• Spring MVC and jQuery
• Creating custom tags to minimize the size of your JSPs

Getting Started with Spring Web Flow

• Motivation for Spring Web Flow:
  • handling problems like duplicate form submission
  • stale session state, and state collision between windows
• Spring Web Flow architecture and generic configuration

Spring Web Flow Language Essentials

• Typical flow makeup
• Using XML to author flows
• Testing flow execution

Spring Web Flow Actions

• Available scopes (request, flash, conversation, and so on)
• Executing actions and data binding
• Validation and branching
• Action state and various types of actions
• Decision state and exception handling

Advanced Spring Web Flow

• Reusing flows: subflows and flow inheritance
• Execution listeners
• Securing Web Flow definitions

Web Application Security with Spring Security

• Motivation for Spring Security
• Spring Security in a Web environment
• Using Spring Security tag libraries
• Method security

Debugging and Testing Web Applications

• Debugging applications in a browser
• Testing Web applications
• Selenium
• Apache JMeter

Spring Roo

• Using Spring Roo to build a Spring application in 10 minutes
• Implicit getter/setter methods, toString, and finders: How does Spring Roo work under the hood?
• The Data Access layer
• The Web layer