CHAPTER 2

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Spring Fundamentals

This chapter is necessary for building a Spring background, which will be very helpful in the upcoming chapters. This chapter will help you get familiar with the Spring container, context, beans, and most Spring core modules and how they work together to allow developers to focus on solving problems instead of building up support.

The Basics

Any application system is made of components that work together to solve a problem. In object-oriented design they are called classes. Figure 2-1 depicts the sequence of operations necessary to create a Person instance. Because this chapter is about Spring Core, a web application ...

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