Introduction to Spring IDE 2.0

This article will introduce you with Spring IDE 2.0. Spring IDE 2.0 is a plugin for developing Spring Applications with ease in Eclipse IDE. This article will walk you through the various steps involved in installing Spring IDE 2.0 in Eclipse. This article also describes common tasks done in Spring Framework way using Spring IDE 2.0 plugin.

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Introduction to Spring's Aspect Oriented Programming(AOP)

One of the major features available in the Spring Distribution is the provision for separating the cross-cutting concerns in an Application through the means of Aspect Oriented Programming. Aspect Oriented Programming is sensibly new and it is not a replacement for Object Oriented Programming. In fact, AOP is another way of organizing your Program Structure. This first section of this article looks into the various terminologies that are commonly used in the AOP Environment. Then it moves into the support that is available in the Spring API for embedding Aspects into an Application . Finally the article concludes by giving a Sample Application.read full article

Introduction to Spring MVC Web Framework - Web Tier

The Spring MVC provides rich functionality for building robust Web Applications and it is available as a separate module in the Distribution. As a pre-requisite, readers are advised to go through the introductory article on Spring Framework http://spring.javabeat.net/articles/2007/06/introduction-spring-web-framework. The Spring MVC Framework is architected and designed in such a way that every piece of logic and functionality is highly configurable. Also Spring can integrate effortlessly with other popular Web Frameworks like Struts, WebWork, Java Server Faces and Tapestry.More>>

Introduction to Spring Web Framework

Today, the Principle of Inversion of Control has gained much popularity and Spring is a Light-Weight Framework that adopts this principle extensively for Building Java or J2ee Applications. In most of the times an Application never wants to gain access to all the services provided by the heavy-weight J2ee Container, but still will use it. In such a case, an Application can depend on the light-weight services provided by the Spring Framework/Container. How this is possible is detailed in brief in this article. Anyway Spring is not a complete replacment for J2ee Container. This article provides an Introduction over the Core features of the Spring Framework like how to Declare and Initialize Beans Declaratively, how to establish Dependencies among Beans etc. The later part of the article explores more on the various stuff available within the Bean Xml Configuration File along with plenty of sample snippets. read full article

Spring IDE 2.0 RC2 released

An excerpt from the Spring Blog,

Before we all head into the week of SpringOne, we are pleased to announce that the second and last release candidate of Spring IDE 2.0 is available. As usual the release is available immediately form our developer update site.

Please don’t forget: This is our last chance to get things straight before we are going Final. Therefore take some time for testing and provide feedback on any errors, bugs or problems you might find.More