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.