Apart from being extremely comprehensive and complex, implementations in java are becoming easier and application are lighter with time. Nonetheless, java codes are extremely easy to debug and test, Spring further makes implementation easier to make loose coupling, reducing codes by the use of annotations to handle relations, database connectivities, and many more places. Here are some of finest web tutorials and links for Java Springs.
Links and resources
- The Spring series, Part 1: Introduction to the Spring framework - Introduced the seven modules of spring framework as first part of three part series. There is an option to download the source code, spring files and build scripts on springs.
- The Spring series, Part 2: When Hibernate meets Spring - An intermediate part of the three part series. Here the expanation is based on spring's persistence support.
- The Spring series, Part 3: Swing into Spring MVC - Third part of the above series, introducing the spring MVC(Model View Controller) framework.
- www.springsource.org
- The Spring Framework - Reference Documentation
- J2EE Without the Application Server
- Spring Framework
- The Spring Framework
Spring keywords
Few keywords that are used while studying Spring framework.
AOP - Aspect Oriented Programming
DAO - Data Access Object
JDBC - Java Database Connectivity
IOC - Inversion of Control
MVC - Model View Controller
ORM - Object Resource management
POJO - Plain Old Java object