Spring in Action, Fourth Edition: Covers Spring 4 - Softcover

Walls, Craig

Softcover

ISBN 10: 161729120X ISBN 13: 9781617291203

Publisher: Manning, 2014

Synopsis

Summary

Spring in Action, Fourth Edition is a hands-on guide to the Spring Framework, updated for version 4. It covers the latest features, tools, and practices including Spring MVC, REST, Security, Web Flow, and more. You'll move between short snippets and an ongoing example as you learn to build simple and efficient J2EE applications. Author Craig Walls has a special knack for crisp and entertaining examples that zoom in on the features and techniques you really need.

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

About the Technology

Designed in 2003 as a lighter approach to J2EE development, Spring Framework has since become a standard choice for building enterprise applications and required knowledge for Java developers. Spring 4, the latest major version, provides full Java 8 integration along with key upgrades like new annotations for the IoC container, improvements to Spring Expression Language, and much-needed support for REST. Whether you're just discovering Spring or you want to absorb the new features, there's no better way to master Spring than with this book.

About the Book

Spring in Action, Fourth Edition is a hands-on guide to the Spring Framework. It covers Spring core, along with the latest updates to Spring MVC, Security, Web Flow, and more. You'll move between short snippets and an ongoing example as you learn to build simple and efficient JEE applications. Author Craig Walls has a special knack for crisp and entertaining examples that zoom in on the features and techniques you really need.

Nearly 100,000 developers have used this book to learn Spring! It requires a working knowledge of Java.

What's Inside

• Updated for Spring 4
• Spring Data for NoSQL
• Simplifying configuration with annotations and definition profiles
• Working with RESTful resources

About the Author

Craig Walls is a software developer at Pivotal. He's a popular author and a frequent speaker at user groups and conferences. Craig lives in Cross Roads, Texas.

Table of Contents

PART 1 CORE SPRING

1. Springing into action
2. Wiring beans
3. Advanced wiring
4. Aspect-oriented Spring

   PART 2 SPRING ON THE WEB

5. Building Spring web applications
6. Rendering web views
7. Advanced Spring MVC
8. Working with Spring Web Flow
9. Securing web applications

   PART 3 SPRING IN THE BACKEND

10. Hitting the database with Spring and JDBC
11. Persisting data with object-relational mapping
12. Working with NoSQL databases
13. Caching data
14. Securing methods

PART 4 INTEGRATING SPRING

15. Working with remote services
16. Creating REST APIs with Spring MVC
17. Messaging in Spring
18. Messaging with WebSocket and STOMP
19. Sending email with Spring
20. Managing Spring beans with JMX
21. Simplifying Spring development with Spring Boot

About this title

About the Author

Craig Walls is an engineer at VMware, a member of the Spring engineering team, a popular author, and a frequent conference speaker.

Edition details

• Publisher: Manning
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 161729120X
• ISBN 13: 9781617291203
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 624