Getting started with Spring Framework

Getting started with Spring Framework is a hands-on guide to begin developing applications using Spring Framework. This book is meant for Java developers with little or no knowledge of Spring Framework. Getting started with Spring Framework, Third Edition has been updated to reflect changes in Spring 4.3 and also includes new chapters on Java-based configuration and Spring Data (covers Spring Data JPA and Spring Data MongoDB projects).

The existing chapters have been revised to include information on Java-based configuration. The book also includes some new information on bean definition profiles, importing application context XML files, lazy autowiring, creating custom qualifier annotations, JSR 349 annotations, spring-messaging module, Java 8's Optional type, and more. The examples that accompany this book are based on Spring 4.3 and Java 8. You can download the examples (consisting of 74 sample projects) described in this book from the following GitHub project: https: //github.com/getting-started-with-spring/3rdEdition Chapter 1 - Introduction to Spring Framework

Chapter 2 - Spring Framework basics

Chapter 3 - Configuring beans

Chapter 4 - Dependency injection

Chapter 5 - Customizing beans and bean definitions

Chapter 6 - Annotation-driven development with Spring

Chapter 7 - Java-based container configuration (New)

Chapter 8 - Database interaction using Spring

Chapter 9 - Spring Data (New)

Chapter 10 - Messaging, emailing, asynchronous method execution, and caching using Spring

Chapter 11 - Aspect-oriented programming

Chapter 12 - Spring Web MVC basics

Chapter 13 - Validation and data binding in Spring Web MVC

Chapter 14 - Developing RESTful web services using Spring Web MVC

Chapter 15 - More Spring Web MVC - internationalization, file upload and asynchronous request processing

Chapter 16 - Securing applications using Spring Security

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