Spring Framework Syllabus

1. Introduction

Enterprise Applications
Enterprise Application Layers
- Presentation Layer
- Business Layer
- Data Access Layer
System Architectures
- 1-Tier Architecture
- 2-Tier Architecture
- n-Tier Architecture
Types of Enterprise Applications
- Web Applications
- Distributed Applications
Modeled Architectures
- Model-I Architecture
- Model-II Architecture
MVC
Requirement to Use Frameworks
Types of Frameworks
- Web Frameworks
- Application Frameworks
Differences between Spring, Struts, and JSF
Spring History
Spring Modules
- Spring 1.x Modules
- Spring 2.x Modules
- Spring 3.x Modules
- Spring 4.x Modules
- Spring 5.x Modules

2. Steps to Prepare Spring Application [Core Module Application]

Download Spring Framework from Internet
Provide Spring Setup in Eclipse IDE
Prepare Bean Class
Prepare Bean Configuration File
Prepare Test / Client Application

3. Core Module

Introduction
IOC Containers
- BeanFactory
  - XmlBeanFactory
  - Resources
    - ByteArrayResource
    - FileSystemResource
    - ClassPathResource
    - InputStreamResource
    - UrlResource
    - ServletContextResource
    - PortletContextResource
- ApplicationContext
  - ClassPathXmlApplicationContext
  - FileSystemXmlApplicationContext
  - WebXmlApplicationContext
Beans in Spring Framework
- Beans Definition
- Beans Configuration
  - XML Based Configuration
  - Java Based Configuration
  - Annotation Based Configuration
- Bean Scopes
  - singleton Scope
  - prototype Scope
  - request Scope
  - session Scope
  - globalSession Scope
  - application Scope
  - webSocket Scope
  - Custom Scopes
- Bean Lifecycle
  - Bean Loading
  - Bean Instantiation
    - By Constructor
    - By Static Factory Method
    - By Instance Factory Method
  - Bean Initialization and Destruction
    - By Custom initialization and destruction methods
    - By InitializingBean and DesposableBean callback interfaces
    - By @PostConstruct and @Predestroy annotations
- Beans Inheritance
- Nested Beans
- BeanPostProcessor
Inversion Of Control [IOC]
- Dependency Lookup
  - Dependency Pull
  - Contextualized Dependency Lookup
- Dependency Injection
  - Constructor Dependency Injection
  - Setter Method Dependency Injection
- Different Types of Elements Injection
  - User Defined Data Types Injection
  - List Types Injection
  - Set Types Injection
  - Map Types Injection
  - Properties Types Injection
- Circular Dependency Injection
Name Spaces
- P-Name space
- C-Name space
Beans Autowiring or Beans Collaboration
- Autowiring and its Modes
  - no
  - byName
  - byType
  - constructor
- Annotation Based Wiring
- Autodiscovery or Stereotypes
- Java based Autowiring
Method Injection
- Lookup Method Injection
- Arbitrary Method Replacement
Event Handling
- ContextRefreshedEvent
- ContextStartedEvent
- ContextStoppedEvent
- ContextClosedEvent
- RequestHandledEvent
- Custom Events in Spring
Bean Validations in Spring Framework
Internationalization in Spring Framework
Bean Manipulations and Bean Wrappers
Property Editors
- ByteArrayPropertyEditor
- ClassEditor
- CustomBooleanEditor
- CustomCollectionEditor
- CustomNumberEditor
- FileEditor
- InputStreamEditor
- LocaleEditor
- PatternEditor
- PropertiesEditor
- StringTrimmerEditor
- URLEditor
- Custom Property Editors
Profiling
Spring Expression Language [SpEL]
- SpEL Expressions
- SpEL Operators
- SpEL Variables
- SpEL Method Invocations
- SpEL Collections

4. Spring JDBC/DAO Module

Introduction
DAO Definition
Advantages of DAOs
Drawbacks with DAOs
Guidelines to prepare DAOs
Pain JDBC Vs Spring JDBC
JdbcTemplate
NamedParameterJdbcTemplate
- Parameter values through Map
- Parameter Values through SqlParameterSource
  - MapSqlParameterSource
  - BeanPropertySqlParameterSource
SimpleJdbcTemplate
DAO Support Classes
- JdbcDaoSupport
- NamedParameterJdbcDaoSupport
- SimpleJdbcDaoSupport
Spring Batch Updates or Batch Processing
Stored Procedure and Functions in Spring JDBC
- Procedures and Functions without CURSOR Types
- Procedures and Functions with CURSOR Types
Blob and Clob processing in Spring JDBC
- AbstractLobCreatingPreparedStatementCallback
- AbstractLobStreamingResultSetExtractor
- LobCreator
- LobHolder
Connection Pooling in Spring JDBC
- Default Connection Pooling Mechanism
- Third Party Connection Pooling Mechanisms
  - Apache DBCP
  - C3P0
  - Proxool
- Application Servers provided Connection Pooling Mechanism
  - Weblogic12c provided Connection Pooling Mechanism