Publisher's Synopsis
Introducing Spring Framework is your hands-on guide to learning to build applications using the Spring Framework. The book uses a simple My Documents application that you will develop incrementally over the course of the book and covers:
How to programmatically configure the Spring container and beans
How to use annotations for dependency injection
How to use collections and custom types
How to customize and configure bean properties and bean lifecycle interfaces
How to handle metadata using XML, annotations, and the Groovy bean reader
How to use the new Spring Boot and Spring XD
After reading this book, you will have all you need to start using the Spring Framework effectively.
