The Spring Framework

Even after dedicating Chapters 6, 7, and part of Chapter 10 to the Spring Framework, I have probably covered only half of the Spring Framework (if that). There is a lot more to Spring. Here are some features of Spring you might want to investigate further:

• Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) features

• Remoting support for the following technologies: Java Remote Method Invocation (RMI), Web Services (using JAX-RPC), Java Connector Architecture (JCA), Enterprise JavaBean (EJB), and Java Message Service (JMS)

• Database-related support for Data Access Object (DAO) objects, ORM support (for Hibernate, JDO, iBATIS), and Java Database Connectivity (JDBC)

• Transaction support for Java Transaction API (JTA)

• Spring Portlet MVC framework (support for JSR-168 Portlet API)

• Integration of the Spring Web MVC Framework with a site composition technology such as Apache Tiles (struts.apache.org/struts-tiles/) or decoration technology such as OpenSymphony's SiteMesh (opensymphony.com)

• Spring subprojects (including Web Flow, Acegi security, BeanDoc, and Rich Client support)

• New tag libraries introduced in Spring

• Other (Spring's support for JEE such as JMS, EJB, and more)