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Article: Spring Instance Management Part 1 - Pooling

In Spring instance management part 1 - pooling, Alef Arendsen focuses on some of the strategies Spring offers to manage instances of your objects

Javalobby Article: Spring WebFlow Examined

Steven Devijver shows you how to use Spring Web Flow to create page flows (aka dialogs) that drive business processes in his latest JavaLobby article: Spring Web Flow Examined.

IBM developerWorks Article: Intro to the Spring framework

A new article entitled Intro to the Spring framework by Naveen Balani has been published on IBM developerWorks. This is the first article in a three-part Spring framework series.  In it you'll learn the principles behind Inversion of the Control (IoC) and AOP, and how these technologies enable the construction of lightweight, robust J2EE applications using Spring technology.

BEA dev2dev Article: Driving WebLogic Transactions with Spring

A new Spring article has been published on BEA's dev2dev: "Implementing Transaction Suspension in Spring", by Juergen Hoeller. It discusses Spring's declarative transaction demarcation facilities with a focus on WebLogic 8.1. As a special topic, the article illustrates Spring's support for WebLogic JTA extensions: for example, showing Spring transactions by name in WebLogic's transaction monitor.

Spring, OJB and Struts

These 3 articles by Jason McKerr show the use of the OBJ persistence engine with Spring. Links below are to both wiki and blog versions of the articles.

Spring, OJB, and Struts, getting started   -   wiki / blog

Spring, OJB, and Struts, Version 2 with DAO   -   wiki / blog

Using FactoryBeans to create the 'uncreatable'

A detailed blog entry about Spring's FactoryBean mechanism, a special kind of bean that adds a level of indirection, effectively allowing any type of object to be managed in a Spring ApplicationContex, even if the object needs to be obtained from elsewhere or creating it requires some work to be done.

Wire Hibernate Transactions in Spring

This OnJava article by Binildas Christudas shows how Spring can be used to assemble components, including their transaction contexts.

Article: Velocity and Spring - Step by Step

This article on the Apache Wiki presents Velocity specific supplemental information to Thomas Risberg's original Developing a Spring Framework MVC application step-by-step.

Article: Developing a Spring Framework MVC application step-by-step

Written by Thomas Risberg, this is a step-by-step account of how to develop a web application from scratch using the Spring Framework. It is divided into a number of parts. You can read them in sequence or skip one if you are already familiar with the concepts covered in it.

Read it here. (this is an April 2005 revision of the original article from 2003)

Introduction to the Spring Framework

Rod Johnson's original October 2003 article, Introduction to the Spring Framework, has now been updated to reflect changes up to and including the current Spring 1.2. For anybody that is not very familiar with the Spring Framework, IoC, or the lightweight container movement, this article is a great introduction to the framework and these concepts.

 

 

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