Developing J2EE Applications Using Spring 2.5 and Rational Application Developer (RAD) v7.0 Training

This course provides students with the knowledge needed to use the Spring Framework and Rational Application Developer 7.0 to develop flexible, testable and maintainable Java EE enterprise applications. This course covers v2.5 of the Spring Framework.

Introduction Course Outline

Objectives
	Upon completion of this course, you should be able to: Understand the need for the Spring framework Use inversion of control to increase flexibility and testability of applications Understand and use aspect-oriented programming to better handle cross-cutting concerns Integrate Spring with the Hibernate ORM framework Declaratively and programmatically manage transactions in Spring Use the Spring MVC web framework to develop flexible web applications Use Spring Web Flow to create conversational web applications Integrate Spring with the Struts web application framework Access enterprise services including JMS, email, job schedulers and JNDI

Topics
	The Need for Spring Inversion of Control Wiring Beans Database Integration and Transaction Management Aspect-Oriented Programming in Spring Spring MVC Spring Web Flow Web Application Alternatives Accessing Enterprise Services

Audience
	Software designers, developers and programmers.

Prerequisites
	To succeed fully in this course, students should be able to: Understand Servlets and JSP – Course WA1550 addresses the Servlet and JSP topics

Duration
	Four days.

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Outline for Developing J2EE Applications Using Spring 2.5 and Rational Application Developer (RAD) v7.0 Training

Chapter 1 - Introduction to the Spring Framework
	What is the Spring Framework? Spring Characteristics Spring Modules Why Spring? Problems with EJB Spring Philosophies Alternatives to Spring Simple Example What is Inversion of Control? IoC Example

Chapter 2 - Spring Dependency Injection
	Spring Containers Bean Creation Bean Destruction Wiring Beans Bean Element Dependency Injection – Primitives and Strings Dependency Injection - References Dependency Injection – Inner Beans Dependency Injection – Lists, Arrays and Sets Dependency Injection – Maps Dependency Injection - Properties Constructor Injection Constructor Injection – Handling Multiple Arguments Constructor vs. Setter Injection Autowiring Autowiring Example Autowiring Mixing Explicit and Autowiring Special Spring Interfaces BeanPostProcessor BeanFactoryPostProcessor PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer CustomEditorConfigurer CustomEditorConfigurer Awareness Interfaces Listening For and Publishing Events XML Schema-based Configuration XML Schema – jndi Example XML Schema – util Example

Chapter 3 - Database Integration and Transaction Management
	DAO Support in Spring DataAccessException Using DataSources DAO Templates DAO Templates and Callbacks Using Spring with JDBC Writing Data with JdbcTemplate Reading Data with JdbcTemplate Reading Single-Row Scalar Data Spring 2.5 NamedParameterJdbcTemplate ORM Tool Support in Spring Hibernate Hibernate Session Factory Spring LocalSessionFactoryBean Spring HibernateTemplate Spring HibernateCallback HibernateTemplate Convenience Methods LocalEntityManagerFactoryBean Spring JpaTemplate Spring JpaCallback JpaTemplate Convenience Features Transactions Transaction Management in Spring Spring Transaction Managers Programmatic Transactions

Chapter 4 - Introduction to Aspect-Oriented Programming
	What is AOP? Cross-Cutting Concerns AOP Concepts AOP in Spring Declarative Transactions Transaction Attributes Transaction Propagation Behavior Transaction Isolation Levels Read-Only and Timeouts NameMatchTransactionAttributeSource Declaring Transactions with Metadata Inheriting Transaction Details Autoproxying Transactions Spring 2.5 XML Syntax for Transaction Advice

Chapter 5 - Aspect-Oriented Programming in Spring
	Types of Advice Before Advice Before Advice Example After Returning Advice Around Advice Around Advice Example Throws Advice Pointcuts Advisors NameMatchMethodPointcut NameMatchMethodPointcut Example Perl5RegexpMethodPointcut ControlFlowPointcut IntroductionInterceptor IntroductionInterceptor Example DelegatingIntroductionInterceptor IntroductionAdvisor IntroductionAdvisor BeanNameAutoProxyCreator BeanNameAutoProxyCreator Example DefaultAdvisorAutoProxyCreator DefaultAdvisorAutoProxyCreator Example Metadata Autoproxying Spring 2.5 AOP @AspectJ Aspects in @AspectJ Pointcuts in @AspectJ execution Pointcut Composite Pointcuts in @AspectJ Before Advice in @AspectJ After Returning Advice in @AspectJ After Throwing Advice in @AspectJ After (Finally) Advice in @AspectJ Around Advice in @AspectJ Introductions in @AspectJ Accessing Parameters in @AspectJ Determining Parameter Names in @AspectJ Advice Ordering in @AspectJ XML Schema-based AOP Support Declaring Pointcuts Before Advice in XML Syntax After Returning Advice in XML Syntax Introductions in XML Syntax Advisors in XML Syntax

Chapter 6 - Spring MVC
	Spring MVC Spring MVC Components DispatcherServlet Context Loaders Spring MVC Example Mapping Web Requests BeanNameUrlHandlerMapping CommonsPathMapHandlerMapping Using Multiple Handler Mappings Controller Hierarchy AbstractCommandController SimpleFormController AbstractWizardFormController MultiActionController ThrowawayController View Resolution InternalResourceViewResolver BeanNameViewResolver XmlViewResolver ResourceBundleViewResolver Using Multiple View Resolvers Binding Views to Models Spring 2.5 Form Tags form and input Tags password and hidden Tags checkbox Tag checkbox Tag radiobutton Tag textarea Tag select Tag option Tag options Tag errors Tag Portlets Spring 2.5 Portlet MVC Framework

Chapter 7 - Introduction to Spring Web Flow 2
	What is Spring Web Flow 2? Relationship to Spring #and Spring MVC Spring Web Flow 2 Modules Integration Support What is a Flow? Book Hotel Flow Example Book Hotel Flow Definition Benefits of Spring Web Flow 2 Required Software Configuration Steps JAR File Instructions Configure web.xml Spring Web Flow Components Sample Spring Web Flow Configuration File Summary

Chapter 8 - Defining Flows
	Recap: What is a Flow? Recap: Book Hotel Flow Example Flow Definition Language Skeletal Flow Definition States View State Transitions Generating Events Generating Events using Submit Button Generating Events using Links End States Actions Actions When do Actions Occur? Putting it all Together Introduction to Unified Expression Language Unified Expression Language Functionality Unified Expression Language Implicit Variables Flow Instances Flow Variables Variable Scopes Assigning and Accessing Variables Flow Input Binding a View to a Model Summary

Chapter 9 - Web Application Alternatives
	Velocity Templates Configuring Velocity in Spring Velocity View Resolution Using Velocity Utility Tools Accessing Session/Request Attributes in Velocity Binding Velocity Views to the Model FreeMarker Configuring FreeMarker in Spring FreeMarker View Resolution Accessing Session/Request Attributes in FreeMarker Binding FreeMarker Views to the Model Jakarta Tiles Configuring Tiles in Spring Tiles View Resolution Tiles Component Controller Creating Excel Spreadsheets Creating PDF Documents Creating Other Non-HTML Documents Jakarta Struts Using Spring with Struts Configuring Spring in Struts Spring-Aware Struts Actions Delegate Requests to Struts Action Beans DelegatingRequestProcessor

Chapter 10 - Accessing Enterprise Services
	Remoting in Spring Clients of RMI Services Exporting RMI Services Hessian and Burlap Clients of Hessian/Burlap Services Exporting Hessian/Burlap Services Spring HTTP Invoker Clients of HTTP Invoker Services Exporting HTTP Invoker Services Clients of EJB Services Clients of Web Services Accessing Objects in JNDI Using the Quartz Scheduler Configuring a Quartz Job Scheduling a Quartz Job Starting Quartz Jobs Scheduling a Quartz Job Using a Cron Expression MethodInvokingJobDetailFactoryBean Sending Email Message-Oriented Middleware and JMS Spring JMS Resources JMS Templates and Callbacks Sending JMS Messages Receiving JMS Messages Converting Messages Asynchronous Reception of JMS Messages Spring 2.5 Dynamic Language Support

Chapter 11 - Java SE 5 in Spring 2.5
	Java SE 5 Use in Spring 2.5 @AspectJ JPA @Required @Required in Java Code Configuration of @Required @Transactional @Transactional in Java Code Configuration of @Transactional @Transactional Properties @Transactional Propagation @Transactional Isolation @Transactional Exceptions SimpleJdbcTemplate Regular JdbcTemplate Use Use of SimpleJdbcTemplate Summary

Objectives

Topics

Audience

Prerequisites

Duration

Outline for Developing J2EE Applications Using Spring 2.5 and Rational Application Developer (RAD) v7.0 Training

Chapter 1 - Introduction to the Spring Framework

Chapter 2 - Spring Dependency Injection

Chapter 3 - Database Integration and Transaction Management

Chapter 4 - Introduction to Aspect-Oriented Programming

Chapter 5 - Aspect-Oriented Programming in Spring

Chapter 6 - Spring MVC

Chapter 7 - Introduction to Spring Web Flow 2

Chapter 8 - Defining Flows

Chapter 9 - Web Application Alternatives

Chapter 10 - Accessing Enterprise Services

Chapter 11 - Java SE 5 in Spring 2.5