In this intensive and highly practical 4-day Spring course, aimed at developers who work for enterprises in Financial Services and betting, you will learn how to use the Spring Framework to create well-designed, testable business applications in an agile manner.

During this Spring 2.0 course, you will learn Spring's features, relevant to your enterprise requirements, and how to use them. You will also become familiar with fundamental architectural issues, which 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!

Please note that this course is a special 'Spring for Financial services' course and specifically suits those in this industry.
We are still finalising the exact programme for this course, based on your suggestions and those of developers we work with. We will definitely include a module on Spring Batch, and possibly spend less time on Spring Web Flow....

Exact course details will follow soon, but the programme below reflects the overall structure, where some topics will be covered less in-depth, so that we will have time for topics of specific interest to your development needs.

• Use the Spring Lightweight Container Architecture, including Inversion of Control
• Apply Agile, domain-driven design techniques with Spring
• Apply Effective JDBC and Hibernate data access
• Implement Declarative transaction management
• Apply Pragmatic AOP
• Implement Unit testing in isolation
• Perform Rapid system integration testing
• Use Spring Web MVC
• Implement Spring Security, Remoting, and JMX

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

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
• Middle-tier unit and integration test strategies

Effective Web Architecture and Design

• Illustration of Spring MVC's value-add capabilities with a realistic sample application
• Comparison with Struts as well as integration of a Spring middle-tier within a Struts web application
• Generic integration points for any web framework
• Integrating multiple view technologies such as JSP, PDF, Excel, Velocity, and Freemarker
• Implementing stateful user conversations in a web application with Spring Web Flow
• Applying security in the web-tier with Spring Security
• Effective web-tier unit and integration test strategies

Integration with Enterprise Services

• Configuring Spring-managed services for remoting without any code
• Designing contract-first web services with Spring Web Services
• Building in manageability with Spring JMX
• Configuring Message-Driven POJOs with Spring JMS