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The Spring Primer(formerly Spring Live) is the most complete book on the Spring Framework. It is for users who are familiar with Java development but have never used Spring. As you read this title, you will learn how Spring reduces the amount of code you have to write and why it receives so much attention and respect from the Java community.

This book is very code-intensive and contains many examples for developing applications with Spring. You'll use Test-Driven Development to rapidly develop and test a simple CRUD application. All of the code in this book is available on SourceBeat's web site. In addition, an open-source project called Equinox is available as part of this book to help users get started quickly and easily with Spring.

Some of the topics covered by The Spring Primer include:

• What Spring is and why should you use it
• How to develop a Struts, Spring, and Hibernate application
• The BeanFactory
• Spring's MVC framework
• Advanced MVC: page decoration with SiteMesh and Tiles, validation, sending e-mail, uploading files, and handling exceptions
• MVC view options: JSP, Velocity, FreeMarker, XSLT, PDF, and Excel
• Persistence frameworks: iBATIS, Hibernate, JDO, OJB, and Spring JDBC
• Testing Spring applications with JUnit, EasyMock, jMock, Cactus, jWebUnit, and Canoo WebTest
• The AOP framework
• Using declarative and programmatic transactions with Spring
• Integrating Spring with JSF, Struts, Tapestry, and WebWork
• Spring MVC vs. JSF, Struts, Tapestry, and WebWork
• Securing Spring applications with J2EE and Acegi Security