Developing Enterprise Java Applications with Spring & Hibernate

Spring architecture fundamentals

• Identifying Spring application components
• Defining the n-tier application architecture

Applying Inversion of Control (IoC) and Dependency Injection (DI)

• Delegating object creation to the Spring bean factory
• Controlling bean creation with scopes and methods

Simplifying data access with JDBC templates

• Streamlining runaway code with JDBC templates
• Structuring queries and callbacks for maintainability

Abstracting the Data Access Layer

• Supporting the Data Access Object (DAO) pattern
• Achieving implementation independence with platform agnostic exceptions

Managing transactions

• Analyzing Java EE transaction support
• Controlling transactions with Spring transaction manager
• Declaring transaction policies with XML and annotations

Processing web requests

• Analyzing Spring MVC architecture
• Mapping requests to controllers with annotations
• Processing commands, form submissions and wizards

Rendering the response

• Spring JSP support
• View technology alternatives with Velocity

Building Ajax controllers

• Establishing the requirements for Ajax controllers
• Implementing REST-style URLs

Integrating Hibernate

• Simplifying data access with O/R mapping
• Unraveling the Hibernate architecture
• Deploying and configuring Hibernate

Generating Hibernate applications

• Developing the persistent class
• Storing and retrieving Java objects

The role of the Hibernate Session

• Establishing a thread-safe session object
• Defining object states: transient, persistent, detached

Mapping collections

• Persisting and retrieving collections
• Preserving collection order for data integrity

Strategies for building object associations

• Specifying one-to-many and many-to-many relationships
• Controlling the association life cycle

Effectively mapping inheritance relationships

• Applying class rules for inheritance
• Techniques for class-database mapping

Applying Hibernate Query Language (HQL)

• Improving structure with named queries
• Augmenting HQL with native SQL
• Maximizing Hibernate performance