Developing with the Spring Framework Training - 4 days - UK

Programme
IoC and Persistence

• What is Spring?
• IoC and the BeanFactory
• The BeanFactory in-depth (handling life-cycle events, property editors, multiple context files)
• Persistence with Hibernate (or iBATIS, JDO, OJB, Spring JDBC)

Labs
- Loading the BeanFactory and using IoC
- Writing a custom PropertyEditor
- Persistence with Spring

Transactions and AOP:

• Testing Spring Applications
• Spring's Transaction Framework
• Spring's AOP Framework

Labs
- Mocking dependencies with jMock
- Declarative and Programmatic Transactions
- Writing and wiring an Interceptor

Spring MVC

• Spring Controllers and Configuration
• Advanced Spring MVC (page decoration, validation, property editors, wizards) View Options (JSP, Velocity, FreeMarker, Tiles, JasperReports) and Handlers
• Spring Web Flow

Labs
- Master/Detail Screen
- Develop a wizard with Dates and Validation
- Developing a wizard with Spring Web Flow

Acegi and Web Services

• J2EE vs. Acegi Security
• Acegi Security Features (Securing Methods, Remember Me, SSL, ACLs)
• Simplify Web Services with Spring
• Talking to web services with Laszlo

Labs
- Form-based Authentication
- Using SSL Channels
- Publishing and consuming web services with Spring