Part 1. Core Spring

Spring does a lot of things, but when you break it down to its core parts, Spring’s primary features are dependency injection (DI) and aspect-oriented programming (AOP). Starting in chapter 1, “Springing into action,” you’ll be given a quick overview of DI and AOP in Spring and see how they can help you to decouple application objects.

In chapter 2, “Basic bean wiring,” we’ll take a more in-depth look at how to keep all your application objects loosely coupled using DI. You’ll learn how to define your application’s objects and then wire them with dependencies in the Spring container using XML.

Turning it up a notch in chapter 3, “Advanced bean wiring,” we’ll explore some of the more advanced features of the Spring container and ...

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