Part 2. Enterprise Spring

In part 1, you learned about Spring’s core container and its support for dependency injection (DI) and aspect-oriented programming (AOP). With that foundation set, part 2 will show you how to apply DI and AOP to implement business layer functionality for your application.

Most applications ultimately persist business information in a relational database. Chapter 5, “Hitting the database,” will guide you in using Spring’s support for data persistence. You’ll be introduced to Spring’s JDBC support, which helps you remove much of the boilerplate code associated with JDBC. You’ll also see how Spring integrates with several popular object-relational mapping frameworks, such as Hibernate, JPA, and iBATIS.

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