Beginning Spring 5: From Novice to Professional

© Joseph B. Ottinger and Andrew Lombardi 2019

J. B. Ottinger, A. LombardiBeginning Spring 5https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4486-9_3

3. Configuration and Declaration of Beans

Joseph B. Ottinger¹  and Andrew Lombardi²

(1)

YOUNGSVILLE, NC, USA

(2)

Laguna Beach, CA, USA

 

In this chapter, we’re going to explore a decent subset of Spring configuration, and we’re going to shift attention away from “Hello, World” into a simple application that will allow us to explore features and configuration. We’ll introduce the sample application first, then walk through a few different ways to configure it. There’s a lot of code here, much of it redundant on the surface, but we’ll use some base classes to help reduce the tendency to repeat ourselves.¹

3.1 The Container ...