The open source agile lightweight Spring (meta) Framework 2.5 is by far the leading innovative force and "lightning rod" that's driving today's Java industry. Spring has time and time again proven itself in real-world highly scalable enterprise settings such as banks and other financial institutions. These institutions, along with grid and other traditional Java vendors that supports them, are looking at Spring first, and have all but forgotten Java EE/J2EE.

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Autorentext
Anirvan Chakraborty is a developer at Cake Solutions Limited. Since becoming a member of the Cake team in 2006, Anirvan has worked on the more complex projects, including the U.K. government knowledge management system. Anirvan is a contributor to Lucene integration in the Spring Modules project. Prior to joining Cake, Anirvan completed his master's degree in Internet software systems at the School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom. When not programming, Anirvan enjoys following sports like Cricket and Formula One. He also enjoys reading detective novels and watching movies.

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Pro Spring 2 is the perfect, simple answer for your lightweight, alternative Java EE development needs! Put simply, this book brings J2EE/Java EE "down to earth." Without the hassles of using the EJB 3 specification and similar, you can build lighter, better-performing agile enterprise Java-based applications using Spring Framework 2. The Spring framework can also integrate other noteworthy and hot open source tools like Apache Struts, Hibernate, OpenJPA, GlassFish, and many more. You'll work through a real, scalable enterprise application and build it from the ground up with Spring, using all the multiple web views and frameworks.

Inhalt
Getting Started with Spring.- Introducing Spring.- Getting Started.- Introducing Inversion of Control.- Beyond the Basics.- Introducing Spring AOP.- Advanced AOP.- Spring Schemas and Namespaces.- Spring Patterns.- Data Access.- JDBC support.- iBATIS Integration.- Hibernate Support.- Enterprise Application Components.- Job Scheduling with Spring.- Mail Support in Spring.- Dynamic Languages.- Java EE 5.- Using Spring Remoting.- Transaction Management.- Web Applications with Spring MVC.- Spring Web Flow.- Spring and AJAX.- JMX with Spring.- Testing with Spring.- Spring Performance Tuning.