Chapter 1. Introduction to the Spring Framework

• What is the Spring Framework?
• Spring Philosophies
• Why Spring?
• Spring Modules
• Requirements and Supported Environments
• Using Spring with Servers
• Role of Spring Container
• Spring Example
• Avoiding Dependency on Spring
• Additional Spring Projects/Frameworks
• Summary

Chapter 2. Spring 3 Development Tools

• SpringSource Tool Suite
• Developing Spring 3 Applications With RAD
• Sequence of Installation for Spring/RAD/WebSphere
• Alternatives to RAD for Spring/WebSphere Development
• Creating a Spring Project
• Tools for Spring Beans Configuration Files
• Spring Configuration Validation
• Spring Web Flow Definition Tools
• Maven Overview
• Managing Spring JARs with Maven
• Adding Maven Dependencies
• Summary

Chapter 3. Defining and Using Spring Beans

• Spring “Beans”
• Spring Containers
• Instantiating the Spring Container
• Retrieving Spring Beans
• Configuring Spring Beans
• <bean> Element
• Naming Beans
• Setting Bean Properties
• Using the Spring XML 'p' Schema
• Creating Beans with a Constructor
• Resolving Constructor Ambiguity
• Setting Properties vs. Invoking Constructors
• Bean Scope
• Effect of Bean Scope on Instances
• Summary

Chapter 4. Advanced Spring Bean Configuration

• Defining Beans with Annotations
• Component Stereotype Annotations
• Spring Component Annotations
• Bean Scope with Annotations
• Configuring Classpath Scanning for Spring Beans
• Choosing Which Annotations to Use
• Overriding Annotation Configuration with XML
• Externalizing Bean Configuration
• PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer
• PropertyOverrideConfigurer
• Inheriting Bean Configuration
• Lazy Initialization
• Declaring Beans from Static Fields
• Declaring Beans from Object Properties
• Summary

Chapter 5. Spring Dependency Injection

• Dependency Injection
• Benefits of Dependency Injection
• Specifying Bean References
• Constructor Injection
• Constructor vs. Setter Injection
• Injecting Multivalued Properties
• Other Multivalued Types
• Specifying the Data Type of Collections
• Defining Collections Using Utility Factory Beans
• Defining a Reusable Properties From an External File
• Bean Scope Effect on Dependency Injection
• Autowiring With XML
• Autowiring Example
• Errors in Autowiring
• Excluding a Bean from Autowiring
• Autowiring Multivalued Properties
• Mixing Explicit and Autowiring
• Summary

Chapter 6. Spring Dependency Injection with Annotations

• Dependency Injection Annotations
• @Autowired and @Inject
• Locations for @Autowired and @Inject
• Autowiring Multivalued Properties
• Autowiring by Bean Name with @Resource
• Injecting Named Collections Defined in XML with @Resource
• Checking Required Dependencies
• Enforcing Required Properties with XML Autowiring
• Multiple @Autowired Constructors
• Multiple Autowiring Matches
• Qualifiers with Annotation-based Autowiring
• Adding a Qualifier Value to a Bean Definition
• Qualification of Multivalued Properties
• Defining Custom @Qualifier Annotations
• Complex Custom @Qualifier Annotations
• Associating Custom Bean Qualifiers with XML
• Processing Injection Annotations
• Overriding Annotation Injection
• Summary

Chapter 7. Testing Spring Applications

• Spring Unit Testing
• Configuring Test Projects
• Spring TestContext Framework
• Implementing Test Classes
• Loading Spring Configuration with Test Classes
• Accessing Spring Components Within Test Classes
• Defining Tests to Execute
• Isolating Tests Which Modify the Spring Environment
• Transactional Testing Support
• Transactional Test Base Classes
• Avoiding False Positives with ORM Testing
• Other Transaction Annotations
• Other Spring Annotations for JUnit
• Unit Testing Support Classes
• Mock Objects
• Summary

Chapter 8. Introduction to JavaServer Faces

• What is JavaServer Faces (JSF)?
• Why Use JSF?
• Nature of a JSF Application
• The Sun Reference Implementation (RI)
• JSF and MVC
• Faces Servlet
• Managed Bean
• The View
• A Simple JSF Application
• The Input Form: form.jsp
• The Result: thanks.jsp
• The Controller: AddressBean
• Page Flow or Navigation Rule
• How Does the Application Work?
• Under the Covers: The Rendered Form HTML
• Under the Covers: The Layout Tree

Chapter 9. Managed Bean

• What is a Managed Bean?
• Why Do You Need Managed Beans?
• Managed Bean As a Controller
• Registering a Managed Bean
• Lifecycle of a Managed Bean
• Initializing a Managed Bean
• What Scope to Use?
• Value Binding
• Property Data Conversion
• Advanced Property Types
• Component Binding
• Other Binding Types
• Basic Input Processing
• Advanced Input Processing
• JSF Expression Language
• Language Basics
• Use of Expression in JSF
• Basic Expression
• Property Access Expression
• Map Access Expression
• Complex Access Expression
• Predefined Objects
• Operators

Chapter 10. Using JSF with Spring

• JSF Integration Options
• DelegatingVariableResolver
• SpringBeanVariableResolver
• SpringBeanFacesELResolver
• Spring Bean Scopes
• FacesContextUtils
• JSF with Spring Web Flow

Chapter 11. User Interface Components

• JSF UI Components
• JSF Component Tag Libraries
• Using the Tag Libraries
• HTML Tag Library
• Identifying Components
• Component Identifier
• Client Identifier
• Form Input Field Names
• Define a Form
• Labels and Images
• Buttons
• Links
• Adding Parameters to Links
• Text Input
• Simple Check Box
• Check Box Group
• Check Box Group Example
• Radio Button
• List Boxes
• Dynamic List Box
• Example
• Another Example
• JSF Core Library
• JSF Core Library - Components
• JSF Component Model
• Base Class Hierarchy
• Useful Base Classes
• Useful HTML Classes

Chapter 12. JSF Event Handling

• Request Processing Phases
• Action Request Processing Phases
• JSF Event & Listener Model…
• JSF Event Classes
• Event Classes
• Event Classes: Hierarchy
• Action Event Handling
• Action Event: Example
• Action Listener
• Value Change Event
• Value Change Event Handler
• Listener Classes
• Listener Interfaces
• Listener Classes: Hierarchy
• Action Listener Class
• Value Change Listener Class
• Phase Event Listener
• Request Processing Lifecycle
• Phase Identifiers

Chapter 13. JSF Navigation

• JSF Navigation
• Example Action Listener
• faces-config.xml File
• JSF Navigation
• Choosing Between Redirect & Direct Rendering
• Navigation Rules: Example
• Navigation: Scenarios

Chapter 14. Advanced GUI Components

• HTML Panel
• Applying Styles
• Grouping Components
• Data Table
• Using a Data Table
• Data Table Model
• Using a Data Table
• Displaying a Header and Footer Row
• Applying Styles
• Adding Links to a Row
• Using Component Binding
• Handling Action
• Using the Data Table Model
• Handling Action

Chapter 15. Entities and Java Persistence API

• Data Persistence
• Java Persistence API
• Entities
• Session Beans Vs Entities
• Entities
• Persisting and Retrieving Data
• Accessing Entities
• EntityManager & Persistence Unit
• Persistence Context
• Entities - Example
• persistence.xml – Hibernate Provider
• persistence.xml – Open JPA Provider
• persistence.xml - Toplink
• Entity Instance Lifecycle
• Creating EntityManager in Session EJB
• Creating EntityManager in a Plain Java Class
• Working With the EntityManager Interface
• Transaction Basics
• Summary

Chapter 16. Using Spring with JPA or Hibernate

• Spring ORM
• Benefits of Using Spring with ORM
• Spring @Repository
• Using JPA with Spring
• Configure Spring JPA EntityManagerFactory
• Using JNDI to Lookup JPA EntityManagerFactory
• LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean
• LocalEntityManagerFactoryBean
• Application JPA Code
• Hibernate
• Hibernate Session Factory
• Spring LocalSessionFactoryBean
• Application Hibernate Code
• "Classic" Spring ORM Usage
• Spring JpaTemplate
• Spring JpaCallback
• JpaTemplate Convenience Features
• Spring HibernateTemplate
• Spring HibernateCallback
• HibernateTemplate Convenience Methods
• Summary

Chapter 17. JPA Entity Lifecycle

• Entity Lifecycle
• When is an Entity Managed or Detached?
• Implementing the CRUD Pattern
• Accessing Entities Using Stateless Session Beans
• Inserting Data
• Retrieving Data
• Updating Data
• Deleting Data
• Merging Entities
• Merging Entities (example)
• Life-Cycle Callbacks
• Example: Internal callback
• External Callback Class
• Listener Class - Example
• Synchronizing with Databases
• Entity Lookup
• JPAQL (JPA Query Language)
• Summary

Chapter 18. Java Persistence Query Language (JPA QL)

• JPA Query Language
• Basic JPAQL Syntax
• Simple SELECT Examples
• Example of Using JPAQL
• The SELECT clause
• Reading Data from Code
• The WHERE Clause
• Example Using JPAQL from Session EJB
• Named Query
• Multiple Named Queries
• Bulk Updates
• Bulk Delete
• Running Native SQL Query
• Native SELECT Query
• Native SQL Delete and Insert
• Named Native Query
• Summary

Chapter 19. Basic Entity Relationships

• Relationship Between Entities
• Anatomy of a Relationship
• Foreign Key
• Example Schema
• One-to-One Unidirectional
• Creating Entity Instances
• Traversing the Relationship
• The Cascade Behavior
• One-to-One Bidirectional
• Maintaining Bidirectional Links
• Simplifying Bidirectional Links
• Traversing the Relationship
• Summary

Chapter 20. Complex Entity Relationships

• One-To-Many and Many-To-One
• Many-to-One Unidirectional
• Creating Entity Instances
• Traversing the Relationship
• Modeling One-to-Many
• Maintaining Bidirectional Links
• Creating Entity Instances
• Traversing the Relationship
• Many-to-Many
• Modeling Many-to-Many
• Maintaining Bidirectional Links
• Creating Entity Instances
• Traversing Relationship
• Unidirectional One-to-Many
• Modeling Unidirectional One-to-Many
• Creating Entity Instances
• Traversing the Relationship
• Relationship in JPA QL
• Fetching Optimizations
• Lazy vs. Eager Initialization
• Lazy Initialization
• Various Problems with Lazy Initialization
• Fetch Join Query
• Summary

Chapter 21. Spring, JSF and JPA Integration

• Integrating JSF
• JPA
• Spring
• Putting It All Together
• Simple Application
• Code the JPA Entity
• The Managed Bean
• Entity as Managed Bean
• Entity as a Field of the Managed Bean
• Accessing the Entity Manager
• EntityManager in JSF Managed Bean
• Separate Spring Component Works with EntityManager
• Entity As DTO
• Managed Bean Scope
• Summary

Chapter 22. Implementing Web Services with Spring

• Web Services in Spring Applications
• Spring Web Service Options
• Injecting Spring Components Into Web Service Classes
• Using Spring with JAX-WS Web Services
• Extending the SpringBeanAutowiringSupport Class
• Using a @PostConstruct Initialization Method
• Combining @PostConstruct and @Autowired
• Comparing Third Party Frameworks with Spring-WS
• Summary

Chapter 23. Spring JMS

• Spring JMS
• JmsTemplate
• Connection and Destination
• JmsTemplate Configuration
• Transaction Management
• Example Transaction Configuration
• Producer Example
• Consumer Example
• Converting Messages
• Message Listener Containers
• Message-Driven POJO's Async Receiver Example
• Message-Driven POJO's Async Receiver Configuration
• Summary

Chapter 24. Review of New Features in Spring 3.0

• Requirements and Supported Environments
• Using Spring with Servers
• Packaging
• Spring Expression Language
• Java-based Configuration
• Annotation-based Configuration
• Spring MVC Changes
• New Spring MVC Configuration
• Spring MVC Annotation Example
• Validation
• Summary