Introducing Spring Framework: A Primer (English Edition)

Introducing Spring Framework is your hands-on guide to learning to build applications using the Spring Framework. The book uses a simple My Documents application that you will develop incrementally over the course of the book and covers:

• How to programmatically configure the Spring container and beans

• How to use annotations for dependency injection

• How to use collections and custom types

• How to customize and configure bean properties and bean lifecycle interfaces

• How to handle metadata using XML, annotations, and the Groovy bean reader

• How to use the new Spring Boot and Spring XD

After reading this book, you will have all you need to start using the Spring Framework effectively.

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