This 5 day course provides students with the knowledge needed to use the Spring Framework and to use the Hibernate Object/Relational Mapping (ORM) framework to implement the persistence layer of J2EE applications to develop flexible, testable and maintainable Java EE enterprise applications.
Audience
- Software designers, developers and programmers
Prerequisites
- Understand Java
- Understand Servlets and JSP
Course Outline
- The Need for Spring
- Inversion of Control
- Wiring Beans
- Object/Relational Mapping Concepts
- Basic Hibernate Mappings
- Aspect-Oriented Programming in Spring including support for AspectJ
- Manipulating Persistent Objects
- Advanced Hibernate Mappings
- Transactions and Concurrency
- Spring MVC, form tag library and portlet framework
- Accessing Enterprise Services
Course Objectives
After completing this course, students will have gained the knowledge to:
- Understand the need for the Spring framework
- Use inversion of control to increase flexibility and testability of applications
- Understand the concepts of object/relational mappings
- Create Hibernate mappings
- Understand and use aspect-oriented programming to better handle cross-cutting concerns
- Integrate Spring with the Hibernate ORM framework
- Retrieve and update persistent objects using Hibernate
- Use HQL (Hibernate Query Language) and criteria queries
- Know when to use database and application transactions
- Use the Spring MVC web framework and form tag library to develop flexible web applications
- Access enterprise services including JMS, email, job schedulers and JNDI
- Use various Spring and Hibernate tools
