Discussion

This chapter, excerpted from the Spring Live book, shows you how to write a simple Spring web application using the Struts MVC framework for the front end, Spring for the middle-tier glue, and Hibernate for the back end.

This chapter covers the following topics:

• Writing tests to verify functionality
• Configuring Hibernate and Transactions
• Loading Spring's applicationContext.xml file
• Setting up dependencies between business delegates and DAOs
• Wiring Spring into the Struts application

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Spring Live

Spring Live is designed to explain how to integrate Spring into your projects to make your development life easier. It is aimed at users that 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's getting so much attention (and respect) from the Java community.

Some of the topics covered by Spring Live include:

• What is Spring and why should you use it?
• Integrating Spring into existing web application frameworks (i.e. simple servlets, Struts, WebWork and Tapestry)
• Spring's MVC Framework
• Comparing Spring's MVC framework to other leading frameworks
• Using Spring's Persistence Strategies (JDBC, Hibernate and iBatis)
• Unit Testing with Spring
• AOP Framework
• Declarative Transactions
• Spring's JavaMail support
• Development Tools to make your Spring life easier
• AppFuse and Spring