Spring in Action, Fourth Edition: Covers Spring 4 / Edition 4

by Craig Walls

Overview

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

Springing into action
1. Wiring beans
2. Advanced wiring
3. Aspect-oriented Spring
4. Building Spring web applications
5. Rendering web views
6. Advanced Spring MVC
7. Working with Spring Web Flow
8. Securing web applications
9. Hitting the database with Spring and JDBC
10. Persisting data with object-relational mapping
11. Working with NoSQL databases
12. Caching data
13. Securing methods
Working with remote services
14. Creating REST APIs with Spring MVC
15. Messaging in Spring
16. Messaging with WebSocket and STOMP
17. Sending email with Spring
18. Managing Spring beans with JMX
19. Simplifying Spring development with Spring Boot

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781617291203
Publisher:	Manning
Publication date:	11/28/2014
Edition description:	4th Edition
Pages:	624
Product dimensions:	7.30(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.40(d)

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.

Table of Contents

	Preface	xvii
	Acknowledgments	xx
	About this book	xxiii
Part 1	Spring essentials	1
1	A Spring jump start	3
1.1	Why Spring?	5
	A day in the life of a J2EE developer	5
	Spring's pledge	6
1.2	What is Spring?	8
	Spring modules	9
1.3	Spring jump start	12
1.4	Understanding inversion of control	15
	Injecting dependencies	16
	IoC in action	16
	IoC in enterprise applications	23
1.5	Applying aspect-oriented programming	25
	Introducing AOP	25
	AOP in action	27
	AOP in the enterprise	30
1.6	Spring alternatives	33
	Comparing Spring to EJB	33
	Considering other lightweight containers	36
	Web frameworks	38
	Persistence frameworks	40
1.7	Summary	40
2	Wiring beans	42
2.1	Containing your beans	44
	Introducing the BeanFactory	44
	Working with an application context	46
	A bean's life	47
2.2	Basic wiring	50
	Wiring with XML	54
	Adding a bean	55
	Injecting dependencies via setter methods	58
	Injecting dependencies via constructor	65
2.3	Autowiring	69
	Handling ambiguities of autowiring	71
	Mixing auto and explicit wiring	72
	Autowiring by default	72
	To autowire or not to autowire	72
2.4	Working with Spring's special beans	73
	Postprocessing beans	74
	Postprocessing the bean factory	76
	Externalizing the configuration	78
	Customizing property editors	80
	Resolving text messages	83
	Listening for events	85
	Publishing events	86
	Making beans aware	87
2.5	Summary	90
3	Creating aspects	91
3.1	Introducing AOP	92
	Defining AOP terminology	93
	Spring's AOP implementation	95
3.2	Creating advice	97
	Before advice	99
	After advice	101
	Around advice	102
	Throws advice	104
	Introduction advice	105
3.3	Defining pointcuts	105
	Defining a pointcut in Spring	105
	Understanding advisors	107
	Using Spring's static pointcuts	107
	Using dynamic pointcuts	111
	Pointcut operations	113
3.4	Creating introductions	115
	Implementing IntroductionInterceptor	115
	Creating an IntroductionAdvisor	119
	Using introduction advice carefully	120
3.5	Using ProxyFactoryBean	122
3.6	Autoproxying	124
	BeanNameAutoProxyCreator	124
	DefaultAdvisorAutoProxyCreator	126
	Metadata autoproxying	128
3.7	Summary	128
Part 2	Spring in the business layer	131
4	Hitting the database	133
4.1	Learning Spring's DAO philosophy	134
	Understanding Spring's DataAccessException	135
	Working with DataSources	137
	Consistent DAO support	139
4.2	Using JDBC with Spring	141
	The problem with JDBC code	142
	Using JdbcTemplate	144
	Creating operations as objects	152
	Auto-incrementing keys	155
4.3	Introducing Spring's ORM framework support	156
4.4	Integrating Hibernate with Spring	157
	Hibernate overview	157
	Managing Hibernate resources	159
	Accessing Hibernate through HibernateTemplate	162
	Subclassing HibernateDaoSupport	163
4.5	Spring and JDO	164
	Configuring JDO	164
	Accessing data with JdoTemplate	165
4.6	Spring and iBATIS	166
	Setting up SQL Maps	167
	Using SqlMapClientTemplate	168
4.7	Spring and OJB	169
	Setting up OJB's PersistenceBroker	169
4.8	Summary	171
5	Managing transactions	173
5.1	Understanding transactions	174
	Explaining transactions in only four words	176
	Understanding Spring's transaction management support	177
	Introducing Spring's transaction manager	178
5.2	Programming transactions in Spring	181
5.3	Declaring transactions	183
	Understanding transaction attributes	185
	Declaring a simple transaction policy	189
5.4	Declaring transactions by method name	191
	Using NameMatchTransactionAttributeSource	191
	Shortcutting name-matched transactions	194
5.5	Declaring transactions with metadata	195
	Sourcing transaction attributes from metadata	196
	Declaring transactions with Commons Attributes	197
5.6	Trimming down transaction declarations	201
	Inheriting from a parent TransactionProxyFactoryBean	202
	Autoproxying transactions	203
5.7	Summary	206
6	Remoting	207
6.1	Spring remoting overview	208
6.2	Working with RMI	212
	Wiring RMI services	212
	Exporting RMI services	214
6.3	Remoting with Hessian and Burlap	218
	Accessing Hessian/Burlap services	219
	Exposing bean functionality with Hessian/Burlap	220
6.4	Using Http invoker	223
	Accessing services via HTTP	224
	Exposing beans as HTTP Services	225
6.5	Working with EJBs	226
	Accessing EJBs	227
	Developing Spring-enabled EJBs	231
6.6	Using JAX-RPC web services	233
	Referencing a web service with JAX-RPC	234
	Wiring a web service in Spring	236
6.7	Summary	238
7	Accessing enterprise services	240
7.1	Retrieving objects from JNDI	241
	Working with conventional JNDI	241
	Proxying JNDI objects	243
7.2	Sending e-mail	244
7.3	Scheduling tasks	248
	Scheduling with Java's Timer	248
	Using the Quartz scheduler	250
	Invoking methods on a schedule	254
7.4	Sending messages with JMS	256
	Sending messages with JMS templates	257
	Consuming messages	261
	Converting messages	263
7.5	Summary	266
Part 3	Spring in the web layer	267
8	Building the web layer	269
8.1	Getting started with Spring MVC	270
	A day in the life of a request	271
	Configuring DispatcherServlet	272
	Spring MVC in a nutshell	275
8.2	Mapping requests to controllers	279
	Mapping URLs to bean names	280
	Using SimpleUrlHandlerMapping	281
	Using metadata to map controllers	281
	Working with multiple handler mappings	282
8.3	Handling requests with controllers	283
	Writing a simple controller	285
	Processing commands	287
	Processing form submissions	289
	Processing complex forms with wizards	294
	Handling multiple actions in one controller	301
	Working with Throwaway controllers	305
8.4	Resolving views	307
	Using template views	308
	Resolving view beans	310
	Choosing a view resolver	313
8.5	Using Spring's bind tag	314
8.6	Handling exceptions	317
8.7	Summary	317
9	View layer alternatives	319
9.1	Using Velocity templates	321
	Defining the Velocity view	321
	Configuring the Velocity engine	322
	Resolving Velocity views	323
	Formatting dates and numbers	324
	Exposing request and session attributes	325
	Binding form fields in Velocity	326
9.2	Working with FreeMarker	327
	Constructing a FreeMarker view	328
	Configuring the FreeMarker engine	329
	Resolving FreeMarker views	330
	Binding form fields in FreeMarker	330
9.3	Designing page layout with Tiles	332
	Tile views	332
	Tile controllers	335
9.4	Generating non-HTML output	337
	Producing Excel spreadsheets	338
	Generating PDF documents	340
	Generating other non-HTML files	343
9.5	Summary	344
10	Working with other web frameworks	346
10.1	Working with Jakarta Struts	347
	Registering the Spring plug-in	348
	Implementing Spring-aware Struts actions	348
	Delegating actions	350
10.2	Working with Tapestry	352
	Replacing the Tapestry Engine	353
	Loading Spring beans into Tapestry pages	355
10.3	Integrating with JavaServer Faces	357
	Resolving variables	357
	Publishing request handled events	361
10.4	Integrating with WebWork	362
	WebWork 1	363
	XWork/WebWork2	364
10.5	Summary	365
11	Securing Spring applications	367
11.1	Introducing the Acegi Security System	368
	Security interceptors	369
	Authentication managers	370
	Access decisions managers	370
	Run-as managers	370
11.2	Managing authentication	371
	Configuring a provider manager	371
	Authenticating against a database	373
	Authenticating against an LDAP repository	382
	Enabling Single Sign-On with Acegi and Yale CAS	384
11.3	Controlling access	389
	Voting access decisions	389
	Deciding how to vote	390
	Handling voter abstinence	392
11.4	Securing web applications	392
	Proxying Acegi's filters	394
	Enforcing web security	397
	Processing a login	400
	Setting up the security context	406
	Ensuring a secure channel	407
	Using the Acegi tag library	411
11.5	Securing method invocations	412
	Creating a security aspect	412
	Securing methods using metadata	414
11.6	Summary	416
Appendix A	Spring setup	417
A.1	Downloading Spring	418
A.2	Choosing a distribution	418
A.3	Setting up your project	419
A.4	Building with Ant	420
Appendix B	Spring-related projects	422
B.1	AppFuse	423
B.2	Rich Client Project	424
B.3	Spring.NET	424
	Index	427

Editorial Reviews

The Barnes & Noble Review
Spring lets you do things with plain-vanilla JavaBeans that formerly required complex EJBs. Learn a few new concepts, follow their implications, and suddenly you’re writing enterprise code that’s cleaner, simpler, and easier to manage. Now two of the first programmers to discover Spring’s power share it with the rest of us. Their enthusiasm’s contagious. You can tell how relieved they are to have finally found a better way.

The concepts you need to learn sound intimidating: “inversion of control,” and (finally out of the advanced computer labs), AOP. But the authors introduce them simply and well, with plenty of examples. You’ll learn how to use Spring’s infrastructure for data persistence, transactions, and more. There’s a full section on presentation, from Spring’s MVC web framework to dynamic PDF generation, even integration with other frameworks (think Struts). By the time you’re done, you’ll like Spring as much as they do. Bill Camarda, from the May 2005 Read Only

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