A brief overview of the Spring Framework

1. The Spring Framework
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2. The Spring Framework:
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⁻ What is Spring
⁻ Modules
⁻ Spring MVC

3. What is Spring?
̵ Comprehensive Programming/Config model
̵ Modern Java-based (JVM) Enterprise
̵ Focus: Lightweight & “Plumbing”
̵ Flexible Dependency Injection
̵ Infrastructure (support) for declarative:
̵ transactions
̵ caching
̵ validation
̵ formatting
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Spring Origin: Rod Johnson (Expert One-on-One J2EE Design and Development)

4. What is Spring?
̵ Powerful abstractions:
̵ JDBC, JPA, JTA, JMS
̵ Support for open source frameworks:
̵ Hibernate, Quartz
̵ Flexible Web Framework for RESTful MVC
̵ Rich testing facilities
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5. ⁻ Modular in design
⁻ Incremental adoption
⁻ Range of deployment
platforms, such as
Tomcat & WebSphere
⁻ Citizen of major clouds
such as Heroku, VMware,
& Amazon
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6. • Dependency Injection
• Aspect-oriented programming
• Data access framework
• Transaction management framework
• Remote access framework
• Convention-over-configuration
• Model-view-controller framework
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Spring Modules

7. • Inversion of control container
• Uses Java Reflection
• Creates managed objects (“beans”)
• Dependency Lookup
• Dependency Injection Patterns:
• Constructors
• Properties
• Factories
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Dependency Injection
Spring Modules

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Dependency Injection
Spring Modules
The Spring
Container
Fully
configured
system
Configuration
Metadata
Your Business
Objects
(POJOs)
produces

9. • AOP:
• increases modularity
• allows for separation of cross-
cutting concerns
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Aspect-oriented framework
Spring Modules

10. • Resource management
• Exception handling
• Transaction participation
• Resource unwrapping
• Abstraction
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Data access framework
Spring Modules

11. • Spring brings transaction abstractions:
• global, local, nested
• Platform TransactionManager
• Transaction Template
• metadata or Java annotations
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Transaction management framework
Spring Modules

12. • Abstraction for various RPC technologies
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Remote access framework
Spring Modules
Convention-over-configuration
• Spring Roo
(http://www.springsource.org/spring-roo)

13. • Request-based framework
• Strategy interfaces
• GOAL: Simple and clear
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MVC Framework
Spring Modules

14. • Front Controller: DispatcherServlet Class
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MVC Framework
Spring Modules

15. • Clear separation of roles:
Each role (controller, validator, command
object, DispatcherServlet, etc) can be fulfilled
by a specialized object
• Configuration of both framework and
application classes as JavaBeans:
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MVC Framework
Spring Modules

16. • Adaptability & flexibility:
Define any controller method signature you
need, possibly using one of the parameter
annotations
• Reusable business code:
Use existing business objects as command or
form objects instead of mirroring them to
extend a particular framework base class
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MVC Framework
Spring Modules

17. • Customizable binding & validation
• Customizable handler mapping & view resolution
• Flexible model transfer:
Model transfer with a name/value Map supports
easy integration with any view technology
• Customizable locale and theme resolution
• Support for JSPs with/without Spring tag library
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MVC Framework
Spring Modules

18. • Support for JSTL
• Support for Velocity without the need for
extra bridges
• Spring tag library for data binding & themes
• JSP form tag library
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MVC Framework
Spring Modules

19. Spring Resources
Tutorials:
Developing a Spring Framework MVC application:
http://static.springsource.org/docs/Spring-MVC-step-by-step/
Introduction to Spring Web MVC:
https://netbeans.org/kb/docs/web/quickstart-webapps-spring.html
Resources:
The Spring Framework:
http://www.springsource.org/spring-framework
Modern Web:
http://www.springsource.org/features/modern-web
NetBeans IDE:
http://netbeans.org
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20. http://about.me/maxgoff
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