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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Day 1 - Spring Framework Foundations

• Introduction to the lightweight container architecture and the Spring Application Context
• How Dependency Injection and Test-Driven Development allow you to develop consistently structured, highly configurable, easily testable applications quickly
• How Spring helps you write better, more cohesive code, with a discussion of relevant Object-Oriented design patterns
• Hands-on labs based upon a realistic business case to be extended throughout the course

Day 2 - Effective Middle-Tier Architecture

• Pragmatic Spring Aspect-Oriented Programming in the middle-tier, with examples and without buzzwords
• Effective persistence: how to build a persistence layer with Spring in best-practice fashion
• Analysis and tradeoffs of relevant persistence strategies, including Hibernate and Spring JDBC
• Transaction management strategies with Spring at the service layer

Day 3 - Implemeting Enterprise Information Connectivity

• Understanding ORM and Hibernate with Spring
• Building an effective web architecture with Spring
• Spring MVC for the presentation layer and for RESTful web services

Day 4 - Integration with Enterprise Services

• Understanding Spring Security and role-based access
• Configuring Spring-managed services for remoting without any code
• Configuring Message-Driven POJOs with Spring JMS
• Building in manageability with Spring JMX