Spring IOC Tutorial

In my previous blog, I provided an architecture overview of the Spring framework. In this blog, I will follow it up with a simple example of using IOC using Spring. The complete source code for the application is available for download here. However, in this blog we would build the code from scratch.

I’ll take the use case of online credit card enrollment …

Introduction to Spring Framework

Spring is an open source framework created to simplify the complexity of enterprise application development. Spring framework addresses all tier of application development in a consistent manner. Spring framework provides a layered architecture comprising of well defined modules, where each modules can be used independently to simplify some area of enterprise development.

In this first article of the Spring Series , I introduce you to the Spring framework. I start…

Do you need to move from Spring to Java EE 6

I recently read an interesting post on TSS- “Moving from Spring to Java EE 6: The Age of Frameworks is Over”.  I am sure, everyone would have its perspective on the above blog and here are my views on this.

But before that, let’s step back and look and why frameworks like Spring was invented in the first place. In my view, primarily it was created as an…

Getting Started with OSGI and Spring DM

In this article we will look at how to create bundles using the Spring framework and then deploy them in a Felix runtime environment. You will see how the core OSGi framework dependency is removed through a simple Spring-based configuration.

In this article, you will revisit the order application developed in part 1 of the series. The application will now use Spring DM to build and package the…

Comparing Spring Web Services and Apache CXF

Spring web services at a glance -

Spring web services is focused on creating contract-first document oriented web services. Spring web services, being a product of Spring, offer first class support of using Spring configurations and integrating with Spring framework.

Spring promotes contract-first development completely and provides an ability to plug-in various XML APIs (SAX, DOM, STAXM, XOM, JDOM..) to handle XML messages. Using Spring web services, you can always ensure…

Recommended Spring Books

To get started with Spring framework quickly, checkout this Spring Series tutorial . The series would be shortly updated with latest Spring version.

In my view, the following books are best resources to get started on Spring. This includes my book on Spring