Spring in a Nutshell - Softcover

The most complete reference available for the Spring 3.x framework, Spring in a Nutshell provides all of the details you need to configure and build lightweight enterprise applications on the Java platform -- ideal whether you're new to Spring or familiar with previous versions of this popular open source framework.

You'll quickly get up to speed on the fundamentals of Spring and how it enables you to write clean and simple applications with code that's portable, reusable, testable, and maintainable. You'll also discover how flexible this framework really is. This book provides techniques that will help you use Spring in a single class within your application, in a single application layer, or throughout your entire application, from the top to the bottom.

• Get everything you need to know to build enterprise Java applications, as well as web-based applications for browsers and RESTful web services
• Discover how Spring handles transactions, remoting, messaging, aspect-oriented programming, testing, and more
• Build web applications with Spring MVC that access data with JDBC, JPA, Hibernate, etc.
• Learn about the Spring Expression Language and the framework's dynamic language support
• Consult quick reference guides to XML schemas and annotations used throughout the Spring Framework

Sam Brannen is a co-founder of Swiftmind GmbH, a software consulting agency in Zurich, Switzerland. At Swiftmind, Sam helps international clients achieve best practices in agile software development, architecture, design, implementation, and testing of enterprise Java applications using the Spring Framework, OSGi, and a plethora of open source technologies. He is also an active core committer for the Spring Framework, the author of the Spring TestContext Framework, and was a member of the SpringSource dm Server development team.

Tareq Abedrabbo is a Senior Consultant and the founder of GoPragmatic. He works with the Telecom industry on various aspects of enterprise applications including architecture, web development, and data integration. He has been an enthusiastic and often early adopter of the Spring Framework and portfolio projects since 2004. He is currently a committer on the Spring Web Services project and more recently has been contributing to the Spring-WS Grails plugin.

Boris Burgstaller is a Senior Software Consultant and co-founder of Swiftmind GmbH, a software consulting agency. Boris began using the Spring Framework in 2004 and has worked on many enterprise Java and OSGi projects for finance, government, and industry. Most of his projects are based on the Spring Framework and other open source technologies.

Baruch Sadogursky is a high-level Java and training professional—consultant, architect and lecturer—with 10 years of experience designing, developing, mentoring and lecturing on complex enterprise applications on the JVM Platform. Recently Baruch joined BMC Software as an innovations expert after completing 6 years in AlphaCSP as a senior consultant, architect and training center manager.