Spring Primer: A Spring Framework Tutorial

Introduction......Page 6
Introducing Spring......Page 8
The History of Spring......Page 9
Why Everyone Loves It......Page 10
How Spring Works......Page 11
Easy Testability......Page 14
Reducing Coupling: Factory Pattern vs. Spring......Page 15
Configuring and Binding Class Dependencies......Page 17
Object/Relational Mapping Tools......Page 18
Summary......Page 19
Spring Quick Start Tutorial......Page 20
Overview......Page 21
Download Struts and Spring......Page 23
Create Project Directories and an Ant Build File......Page 24
Tomcat and Ant......Page 25
Create Unit Test for Persistence Layer......Page 29
Configure Hibernate and Spring......Page 32
How Spring Is Configured in Equinox......Page 34
Implement UserDAO with Hibernate......Page 37
Run Unit Test and Verify CRUD with DAO......Page 39
Create Manager and Declare Transactions......Page 40
Create Unit Test for Struts Action......Page 46
Create Action and Model (DynaActionForm) for Web Layer......Page 47
Run Unit Test and Verify CRUD with Action......Page 54
Complete JSPs to Allow CRUD through a Web Browser......Page 55
Verify JSP’s Functionality through Your Browser......Page 57
Add the Validator Plug-in to struts-config.xml......Page 60
Change the DynaActionForm to DynaValidatorForm......Page 61
Configure Validation for save() Method, But Not for Others......Page 62
Summary......Page 64
The BeanFactory and How It Works......Page 65
About the BeanFactory......Page 66
A Bean’s Lifecycle in the BeanFactory......Page 67
Inversion of Control......Page 68
The Bean Definition Exposed......Page 70
Configuring Properties and Dependencies......Page 73
Specifying Dependencies with ......Page 74
Dependency Checks......Page 75
setXXX()......Page 76
setBeanFactory()......Page 78
init-method......Page 79
Destroying Beans......Page 80
Get That Context!......Page 81
Tips for Unit Testing and Loading Contexts......Page 82
Internationalization and MessageSource......Page 83
A Closer Look at MyUser’s applicationContext.xml......Page 84
Summary......Page 85
Spring’s MVC Framework......Page 86
Overview......Page 88
Unit Testing Spring Controllers......Page 90
Converting Struts to Spring MVC......Page 91
Modify web.xml to Use Spring’s DispatchServlet......Page 92
Create Unit Test for UserController......Page 93
Create UserController and Configure action-servlet.xml......Page 95
Modify userList.jsp to Work with Spring......Page 98
Create Unit Test for UserFormController......Page 101
Create UserFormController and Configure it in action-servlet.xml......Page 104
Modify userForm.jsp to Use Spring’s JSP Tags......Page 108
Configure Commons Validator for Spring......Page 111
SimpleFormController: Method Lifecyle Review......Page 115
Spring’s JSP Tags......Page 118
Summary......Page 119
Advanced MVC: Templates, Validation, Exceptions and Uploading Files......Page 120
Templating with SiteMesh......Page 122
Installation and Configuration......Page 123
Step 1: Configure SiteMesh in web.xml......Page 124
Step 2: Create Configuration Files......Page 125
Step 3: Create a Decorator......Page 126
Installation and Configuration......Page 129
Step 1: Configure Spring to Recognize Tiles......Page 130
Step 2: Create a Base Layout......Page 131
Step 3: Create Page Definitions......Page 133
Validating the Spring Way......Page 137
Using Commons Validator......Page 139
XDoclet......Page 140
Validating in Business Delegates......Page 141
Spring’s Future Declarative Validation Framework......Page 143
Exception Handling in Controllers......Page 144
Uploading Files......Page 148
Intercepting the Request......Page 154
Sending E-Mail......Page 157
Summary......Page 160