3-days Spring Framework course

We offer you this course in Hungary or anywhere within Europe for a very reasonable price. As an example, for 4 people attending the course in or near Budapest the price can be as low as 200 €/person/day. We can also bring this course to any european location for a similar price.
The actual pricing depends on a number of factors, including the location and its facilities, extra services (e.g. accomodation) and the number of people attending, so please send us an inquiry to education@oktech.hu if you are interested.

COURSE DESCRIPTION

WHO CAN BENEFIT

PREREQUISITES

• Implement, deploy and test a Java platform technology application
• Have some working experience with Java EE platform web-tier technologies (JSPs and Servlets)
• Use the Ant build environment (or other tool sets required by the labs)

SKILLS GAINED

• Identify the main concepts and ideas behind the Spring Framework
• Explain why the Spring Framework is a lightweight and robust solution for Enterprise Java Applications
• Build and configure an application using Dependency Injection
• Understand the bean life cycle and apply post processing to the configuration
• Explain the benefits of Test Driven Development and how Spring Framework helps in achieving this
• Understand the basics of Aspect Oriented Programming and how to apply it with Spring Framework
• Use Spring's JDBC or Hibernate support to build the data access layer
• Apply Spring's declarative or programmatic Transaction Management
• Use Spring MVC to build a web application
• Identify important parts of an enterprise application development where other Spring modules might be of help
• Use Spring's JMX support to easily integrate your application into the JMX infrastructure

COURSE OUTLINE

Module 1 - Introduction to the Spring Framework

• Identify the goal of the Spring Framework
• Examine the concept of loose abstract coupling and the relevant design patterns
• List the support Spring Framework provides for Java and Enterprise Java application development
• Recognize the importance of application configuration
• Recognize the various example and demonstration scenarios used in this course

Module 2 - The Inversion of Control (IoC) container

• Examine the concept of IoC and Dependency Injection
• Create bean definitions
• Apply constructor injection, setter injection or factory-method injection
• Instantiate and use an ApplicationContext appropriately

Module 3 - Lifecycle of a bean

• List the lifecycle phases of a bean
• Apply the appropriate lifecycle callback methods
• Customize beans or configuration metadata using post-processors

Module 4 - Advanced application configuration

• Simplify configuration with bean definition inheritance and inner beans
• Understand the concept of property editors
• Partition the application configuration to enable easy environment changes
• Use custom XML namespaces to further simplify configuration

Module 5 - Testing Spring applications

• Identify the importance of Test Driven Development
• Understand and use Spring Framework's support in unit and integration testing

Module 6 - Introduction to Spring AOP

• Explain the basics of Aspect Oriented Programming
• Define pointcuts and implement advices
• Use Spring AOP or AspectJ to enable aspects at runtime

Module 7 - Data access with Spring

• Describe the importance of a proper Data Access layer
• Understand Spring's resource management
• Use Spring's JDBC support for data access
• Explain support for other ORM technologies like Hibernate

Module 8 - Transaction management

• Understand the basics of transactions
• Apply transaction support declaratively or programmatically
• Use Spring's support for transaction propagations and other transactional attributes

Module 9 - Introduction to Spring MVC

• Identify the design goals and core concepts of Spring MVC
• Create Spring MVC controllers
• Define Spring MVC views
• Explain Spring's support for other popular web frameworks like Struts

Module 10 - Advanced Spring Topics

• Describe Spring's support for remoting and web services
• Describe Spring's support for Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) integration
• Describe Spring's support for Java Message Service
• Describe Spring's support for scheduling
• Identify other components of the Spring Portfolio

Module 11 - Spring JMX

• Understand the basics of JMX
• Use Spring's support for JMX to create JMX client and server