Spring in Practice

About this Book

Spring in Practice is a practice-oriented book. The first three chapters are background, but are still quite substantial, and we expect most readers will find some new information in them. Chapter 2 and the final 11 chapters use a cookbook format to tackle a given problem with incremental recipe-by-recipe, or technique-by-technique, solutions. There are 66 techniques covered in this book.

Roadmap

As noted, chapters 1 through 3 provide background material that we use throughout the rest of the book:

• Chapter 1 explains the Spring inversion of control lightweight container.
• Chapter 2 shows how to work with data access, ORM, and transactions. Although we pursue the more traditional approach of implementing a generic DAO, we ...