Professional Java for Web Applications

Chapter 12Introducing Spring Framework

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Understanding Spring Framework
• The benefits of Spring Framework
• What are application contexts?
• How to bootstrap Spring Framework
• How to configure Spring Framework
• How to use Bean Definition Profiles

WROX.COM CODE DOWNLOADS FOR THIS CHAPTER

You can find the wrox.com code downloads for this chapter at http://www.wrox.com/go/projavaforwebapps on the Download Code tab. The code for this chapter is divided into the following major examples:

• Spring-One-Context-XML-Config Project
• Spring-XML-Config Project
• Spring-Hybrid-Config Project
• Spring-Java-Config Project

NEW MAVEN DEPENDENCIES FOR THIS CHAPTER

In addition to the Maven dependencies introduced in previous chapters, you also need the following Maven dependencies:

        <dependency>
            <groupId>javax.inject</groupId>
            <artifactId>javax.inject</artifactId>
            <version>1</version>
            <scope>compile</scope>
        </dependency>
 
        <dependency>
            <groupId>javax.annotation</groupId>
            <artifactId>javax.annotation-api</artifactId>
            <version>1.2</version>
            <scope>runtime</scope>
        </dependency>
 
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
            <version>4.0.0.RELEASE</version>
            <scope>compile</scope>
        </dependency>

WHAT IS SPRING FRAMEWORK?

Spring Framework is an application container for Java that supplies many useful features, such as Inversion of Control, Dependency Injection, abstract data access, transaction management, and more. It was conceived in 2002 in response ...