Spring: Developing Java Applications for the Enterprise

Summary

In this chapter, you learned about the Spring IoC container and the BeanFactory and ApplicationContext interfaces. You also learned about DI in Spring and their types. We saw the bean's scope in Spring. Finally, we went through the life cycle of the Spring bean.

In the next chapter, we will cover the DAO design pattern. We will take a look at a simplified spring JDBC abstraction framework. We will implement the JDBC code using the Spring JDBC support and discuss how Spring manages DataSource and the data sources you can use in your applications. We will also discuss data support in Spring applications.