Spring Framework Tutorials with Examples

This Spring Framework Tutorial series explains the Spring Framework and will take you from introduction to advanced concepts. It will discuss the major topics in detail and give examples of each with vivid and well tested Java programs.

Spring Framework Examples

With the following examples, we will cover many useful topics of the Spring Framework:

1. Introduction to Spring Framework, IoC and Injection

In this tutorial we will cover a basic introduction the Spring framework, Inversion of Control and Dependency Injection. We will discuss the benefits of using it, and why it is so popular in today’s environment.

2. Spring Framework Constructor Injection Example

In this tutorial, we will concentrate on Constructor Injection. As the name suggests, constructor injection is form of dependency injection that is accomplished when we supply the arguments to the constructor so that when the bean is instantiated by the factory it contains all of the necessary information to be property constructed.

3. Spring Framework Constructor Injection with Collections Example

In this tutorial, we will modify our previous example and add a few collections so we can illustrate how we use constructor injection with differing collection types. Specifically, we will show how to perform constructor injection with List, Map and Set objects.

4. Spring Framework Setter Injection with Examples

In this tutorial we will discuss Spring Framework Setter Injection which is the main method of dependency injection in Spring. In the previous tutorial we discussed constructor injection, which is the another method. The property element is used to define the setter injection in Spring by using the name of the property element and looking for the corresponding setXXXXXX methods in the specified bean.

5. Spring Bean Scopes Example

In this tutorial we will begin covering scope of Spring beans. In Spring when you define a bean in the Spring configuration file, you are telling Spring about its scope whether you define it or not. This is a powerful and flexible approach because you can choose the scope of the objects you create via configuration instead of having to hardcode the scope of an object at the Java class level.

6. Spring Bean Life Cycle Example – @PostConstruct, @PreDestroy, InitializingBean, DisposableBean, init-method and destroy-method

In this tutorial we will cover the Spring Bean Life Cycle and the methods, attributes and annotations used to hook into the management of the bean life cycle in the IoC container. These activities or events are referred to as Bean Life Cycle events.

7. Integrating Java JMX Managed Beans using Spring and Annotations

This post will show how to create managed beans using the JMX standard using Spring. JMX stands for Java Management Extensions, and was created to implement a standard and uniform way to manage your applications. By using JMX remote can connection to a JVM and monitor running applications on that JVM. In addition to monitoring, remote clients are able to directly run methods and modify runtime parameters of the application that is being managed.

8. Integrating Spring Message Driven POJO with ActiveMQ

This post will show how to create a message driven POJO that can send and receive JMS message using ActiveMQ as the Message Oriented Middleware (MOM). We will discuss various approaches to creating the MDPs (Message Driven POJOs) in this tutorial and discuss setting up ActiveMQ from Apache.

Spring MVC Framework Examples

1. Creating Hello World Application using Spring MVC on Eclipse IDE

In this tutorial we will go into some detail on how to set up your Eclipse IDE environment so that you can develop Spring MVC projects. In this post, we will create our first Spring MVC project with the all to familiar “Hello World” sample program.

2. Spring MVC Form Handling Example

The following tutorial will guide you on writing a simple web based application which makes use of forms using Spring Web MVC framework. With this web application you will be able to interact with the customer entry form and enter all of the required values and submit them to the backend processes. I have taken the liberty of using CSS to beautify and transform the HTML page from a standard drab look and feel to a more appealing view.

3. Spring @RequestHeader Annotation Example

In this tutorial, we will discuss the different ways that Spring MVC allow us to access HTTP headers using annotation. We will discuss how to access individual header fields from the request object as well accessing all the headers by supplying Map and then iterating through the LinkedHashMap collection. We will also show you how to set the headers in the response object.

4. Spring MVC Exception Handling using @ExceptionHandler with AngularJS GUI

Good exception handling is a essential part of any well developed Application Framework and Spring MVC is no exception — pardon the pun. Spring MVC provides several different ways to handle exceptions in our applications. In this tutorial, we will cover Controller Based Exception Handling using the @ExceptionHandler annotation above the method that will handle it.

5. Spring RESTful Web Service Example with JSON and Jackson using Spring Tool Suite

For this example, I will be using Spring Tool Suite (STS) as it is the best integrated development environment for building the Spring framework projects. This tutorial will cover setup using Maven on STS and guide you in creating RESTful web services that generate JSON as output using the Jackson libraries.

6. Spring MVC RESTful Web Service Example with Spring Data for MongoDB and ExtJS GUI

This post will show another example of how to build a RESTful web service using Spring MVC 4.0.6, Spring Data for MongoDB 1.6.1 so that we can integrate the web application with a highly efficient datastore (MongoDB 2.6). In this tutorial we will walk you through building the web service and NoSQL database backend and show you how to implement CRUD (Create, Read, Update and Delete) operations.