Spring for J2EE utviklere

Målgruppe:
This is an intermediate level Java programming course, designed for developers who wish understand Spring.

Forkunnskaper:
The student should be an experienced J2EE / Java programmer, with practical development experience using Servlets/JSP/EJB and knowledge of Struts/JSP and JMS

Session: Review of the Spring Framework

Lesson: The Spring Framework and IoC

• Understand the value of Spring
• Explore IoC/DI
• Configuring collaborators
• Understand build-in property editors

Lesson: Advanced Spring Container Features

• Provide an overview of Spring’s factory beans
• Re-use bean definitions in the configuration file
• Use placeholders in the configuration file
• Create custom property editors
• Become familiar with container post-processors 

Session: Spring Data Access Support

Lesson: Overview

• Understand the Spring DAO
• Understand Transaction Demarcation within Spring 

Lesson: Spring JDBC

• Overview of Spring JDBC support
• Defining DataSources
• JDBC Exceptions and the SQLExceptionTranslater within Spring
• Creating JDBC DAOs
• Using the JdbcTemplate class 
• Mapping rows to Objects using the JdbcTemplate
• Mapping data to Objects using SQL Helper Objects (Operation Classes) 

Lesson: Introduction to Hibernate

• Define Object to Relational (O/R) Mapping (ORM)
• Define the Hibernate Architecture
• Illustrate the benefits of using Hibernate
• Understand the goals of Hibernate
• Understand key functionalities of Hibernate
• Define the different Hibernate types (Entities and values)
• Understand different Persistent representations (POJOs, Maps and XML)

 Lesson: Spring Hibernate

• Overview of Spring Hibernate support
• Session and connection management
• Creating Hibernate DAOs
• Using the hibernateTemplate class 

Session: Spring AOP Framework

Lesson: Spring AOP

• AOP basics
• AOP support within Spring
• Understanding proxy factories 

 

Session: Web Frameworks

Lesson: Spring and Struts (Optional)

• Brief overview of Struts
• Understand the integration between Struts and Spring
• Understand bean resolution

Lesson: Spring and JSF (Optional)

• Brief overview of JSF
• Understand the integration between JSF and Spring
• Understand bean resolution

Lesson: Overview of SpringMVC (Optional)

• Understand the architecture of Spring MVC
• Understand how to configure a Spring MVC web application
• Understand URL mapping in Spring MVC
• Understand Interceptor classes
• Understand View and ViewResolver classes
• Understand Controller classes
• Understand how to process a form request
• Understand how to add validation support to form processing
• Introduce Themes, exception handling, I18N support, web application testing and wizards

Session: Spring and EJB

Lesson: Overview of EJB (Without Spring)

• Cover the standard way to use EJBs in a non-Spring environment
• Utilizing Stateless (SLSB) and Stateful (SFSB) Session Beans in Spring
• Stateless Session Bean lookup using JNDI
• How to access local and remote EJBs

Lesson: Overview of Spring and EJB

• The Spring approach to implementing EJBs
• Singleton vs. multiple instances of the Spring context
• EJBs and shared contexts
• Spring and Stateless Session Beans 
• Spring and Message Driven Beans

Session: Distributed Systems, JMS

Lesson: Overview of JMS (without Spring)

• Goals of a distributed system
• Decoupling using messaging
• J2EE support for messaging (JMS)

Lesson: Distributed Systems, JMS and Spring

• Spring support for messaging
• Introduce Spring’s JmsTemplate class 

Hands-on lab exercises

1. Configuring Dependencies-Familiarization with the Spring configuration file
2. Advanced Configuration-Re-use bean definitions and make use of property files
3. Implementing the DAO Layer-Use the Spring DAO helper classes
4. Implement the MemberDAO using Spring and Hibernate-Use Spring’s Hibernate classes
5. Spring IoC/AOP-To become familiar with Spring containers and Spring AOP
6. Using Struts and Spring-Create a front-end using Struts and Spring
7. Use JSF and Spring-Create a front-end using JSF
8. Web Application using Spring MVC-To learn how to build a web application using Spring MVC, including forms and validation
9. Spring SLSB-Gain a better understanding of Spring support for SLSBs
10. Spring JMS-Become familiar with the JMS support in Spring