Spring In Action, Updated For Spring 2.0, 2nd Ed

Spring in Action 2nd Edition is an expanded, completely updated second edition of the best selling Spring in Action. Written by Craig Walls, one of Manning's best writers, this book covers the exciting new features of Spring 2.0, which was released in October 2006. It describes ways to use EJB components alongside Spring. Through this book, readers learn how Spring can be applied at the various layers of enterprise applications.


Table of contents :
Part I Core Spring
· Springing into action
· Basic bean wiring
· Advanced bean wiring
· Advising beans

Part II Enterprise Spring
· Hitting the database
· Managing transactions
· Securing Spring
· Spring and POJO-based remote services
· Building contract-first web services in Spring
· Spring messaging
· Spring and Enterprise JavaBeans
· Accessing enterprise services

Part III Client-Side Spring
· Handling web requests
· Rendering web views
· Using Spring Web Flow
· Integrating with other web frameworks




Market Description :
· Java developers who are looking for ways to build enterprise-grade applications based on simple Java objects, without resorting to more complex and invasive EJBs.
· Hard-core EJB users
· Software architects


About Author :
Craig Walls is a software developer with over 12 years' experience and coauthor of XDoclet in Action. He is a zealous promoter of the Spring Framework, speaking frequently at local user groups and conferences and writing about Spring on his blog. When he's not slinging code, Craig spends as much time as he can with his wife, two daughters, 7 birds, 4 dogs, 2 cats, and an ever-fluctuating number of tropical fish. Craig lives in Denton, Texas.

Ryan Breidenbach is an avid supporter of open source Java technologies, who has developed Java web applications for the past seven years. He lives in Coppell, Texas.