Spring: Framework in Depth

Get a comprehensive overview of Spring, the enterprise application framework and inversion-of-control container for Java.

Introduction

• Building blocks of Spring
• What you should know

1. Spring Overview

• Introduction to Spring
• The inversion of control (IoC) container

2. Configuring the ApplicationContext

• Introduction to the ApplicationContext
• Configuration of Spring with Java
• Work with the environment
• Profiles
• Spring Expression Language
• Bean scopes
• Proxies

3. Component Scanning

• The component scan
• Implementing component scanning
• Lifecycle methods

4. The Bean Lifecycle

• Why the lifecycle is so important
• The overall picture
• The init phase: Loading bean definitions
• Init: Bean factory post-processing
• Init: Bean instantiation
• Init: Setters
• Init: Bean post-processing
• Init: Differences based on configuration
• The use phase
• The destruction phase

5. Aspect-Oriented Programming

• Aspecting in Spring
• Define aspect-oriented programming (AOP) pointcuts
• Implement AOP advice: Before
• Implement AOP advice: After
• Implement AOP advice: Around
• Challenge: Building your own aspect
• Solution: Building your own aspect

Conclusion

• Next steps