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http://www.springsource.com/training/class?classID=102697

 

Early Bird discount : USD 1255.5 if you register before Aug 14 2011

 

Course Overview

Core Spring is the four-day flagship Spring Framework training. In this course, students build a Spring-powered Java application that demonstrates the Spring Framework and other Spring technologies like Spring AOP and Spring Security in an intensely productive, hands-on setting.
Completion of this training entitles each student to receive a free voucher to schedule an exam at a Pearson VUE Center to become a Spring Certified Professional.

• Developers
• Architects

Prerequisites : • Experience with developing applications using Java

Course datasheet (PDF)

 

Course Objectives

At the end of the training, you should have an understanding of Spring and associated technologies and be able to do the following:
• Use the Spring Framework to develop Java applications.
• Use dependency injection to set up and configure applications.
• Test Spring-based applications.
• Set up Spring configuration using XML, annotations, and Java configuration.
• Use Hibernate and JDBC with Spring to access relational databases.
• Use Spring support for transactions.
• Use aspect-oriented programming (AOP) to add behavior to objects.
• Develop a basic Web application with Spring MVC.
• Use Spring Security to secure Web applications.
• Use Spring with RMI, HttpInvoker, and JMS for remote communication.
• Add management with the JMX API

 

Course Outline

1 Introduction to Spring
• The Spring application context
• XML configuration
• Working with existing singletons and factories
• Working with multiple configuration files
2 Understanding the Bean Life Cycle
• XML namespaces
• Initialization, use, and destruction phases
• Working with Spring interceptors
• Externalizing constant values into properties files
• Bean scopes
3 Simplifying Application Configuration
• Bean definition inheritance
• Inner beans
• p and util namespaces
• Dependency injection of collections
• Spring Expression Language (SpEL)
4 Annotation-Based Dependency Injection
• Autowiring and component scanning
• Stereotype annotations
• Java-based configuration
• Mixing configuration styles
• When to use XML, annotations, and Java configuration
5 Testing a Spring-Based Application
• Annotations for integration testing with Spring (using JUnit)
• Advanced concepts: application context caching and the @DirtiesContext annotation
6 Aspect-Oriented Programming
• What problems does AOP solve?
• Differences between Spring AOP and AspectJ
• Defining pointcut expressions
• How to use the types of advice: around, before, after
7 Data Access and JDBC with Spring
• How Spring integrates with existing data access technologies
• DataAccessException hierarchy
• jdbc namespace
• Simplifying jdbc access using the Spring JdbcTemplate
8 Integrating Spring with Hibernate
• Quick introduction to ORM with Hibernate
• Benefits of using Spring with Hibernate
• Hibernate configuration in Spring
• Exception handling
9 Database Transactions with Spring
• Declaring a Spring Transaction Manager
• @Transactional annotation
• Configuring isolation levels
• Configuring transaction propagation
• Transactions and integration testing
10 Spring in a Web Application
• Configuring Spring in a Web application (using Spring MVC, Struts, JSF)
• Introduction to Spring MVC
• Defining Spring MVC controllers using annotations
• Spring MVC in the view layer
• namespace (new in Spring 3.0)
11 Spring Security
• What problems does Spring Security solve?
• Configuring authentication
• Intercepting URLs
• The Spring Security tag library for JSPs
• Security at the method level
• Customizing the Spring Security filter chain
12 Remoting
• Problems with traditional RMI
• Using Spring remoting over RMI
• Using the Spring HttpInvoker for remote access over HTTP
13 JMS
• Introduction to JMS
• Configuring JMS resources with Spring
• Sending and receiving messages using the Spring JmsTemplate and message listener containers
14 JMX
• Introduction to JMX
• Configuring Spring to export MBeans automatically
• Exporting a Spring bean as an MBean