In this 4-day Core Spring: Developing with the Spring Framework training course, you will learn how to use the Spring Framework to create well-designed, testable business applications in an agile manner.
During this Spring 3.0 course, you will learn Spring's features and how to use them. You will also become familiar with the fundamental architectural issues you will need to be aware of when developing with the Spring framework. It is important to know how to use certain parts of the Spring framework, but even more important to be able to decide when to use them!

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• Develop Java applications using the Spring Framework
• Use Dependency Injection to set up and configure applications
• Test Spring Applications
• Use Hibernate and JDBC with Spring to access relation databases
• Make use of Spring’s support for transactions
• Utilize AOP to add behavior to objects
• Develop web applications – traditional and RESTful
• Secure application with Spring Security
• Use technologies such as RMI, HttpInvoker, Hessian, Burlap and JMS for remote communication
• Add management with the JMX API

Day 1 - Spring Framework Fundamentals

• Introduction to Spring
• Using Spring to configure an application
• Understanding the bean life-cycle
• Simplifying application configuration
• Annotation-based dependency injection
• Testing a Spring-based application

Day 2 - Effective Middle-Tier Architecture

• Adding behavior to an application using aspects
• Introducing data access with Spring
• Simplifying JDBC-based data access
• Driving database transactions in a Spring environment

Day 3 - Implemeting Enterprise Information Connectivity

• Introducing object-to-relational mapping (ORM)
• Getting started with Hibernate in a Spring environment
• Effective web application architecture
• Getting started with Spring MVC
• RESTful web services with Spring MVC

Day 4 - Integration with Enterprise Services

• Securing web applications with Spring Security
• Understanding Spring's remoting framework
• Simplifying message applications with Spring JMS
• Adding manageability to an application with Spring JMX