Getting started with Spring Framework, Second Edition includes new chapters on Spring Web MVC, RESTful Web Services and Spring Security. This book is meant for Java developers with little or no knowledge of Spring Framework. All the examples shown in this book use Spring 4. You can download the examples (consisting of 60 sample projects) described in this book from the following Google Code project: https://code.google.com/p/getting-started-with-spring-framework-2edition/Chapter 1 – Introduction to Spring FrameworkChapter 2 – Spring Framework basicsChapter 3 - Configuring beansChapter 4 - Dependency injectionChapter 5 - Customizing beans and bean definitionsChapter 6 - Annotation-driven development with SpringChapter 7 - Database interaction using SpringChapter 8 - Messaging, emailing, asynchronous method execution, and caching using SpringChapter 9 - Aspect-oriented programmingChapter 10 – Spring Web MVC basicsChapter 11 – Validation and data binding in Spring Web MVCChapter 12 – Developing RESTful web services using Spring Web MVCChapter 13 – More Spring Web MVC – internationalization, file upload and asynchronous request processingChapter 14 – Securing applications using Spring SecurityThis book covers:- Specifying configuration metadata using XML and annotations- Programmatically configuring Spring container and beans- Configuring different types of bean properties- Bean lifecycle interfaces- Customizing beans using BeanPostProcessors and BeanFactoryPostProcessors- Bean definition inheritance- JSR 250's and 330's annotations for dependency injection- Validation using JSR 303 (Bean Validation API) annotations and Spring's Validator interface - SpEL (Spring Expression Language)- Caching using Spring's cache abstraction- Sending and receiving JMS messages using Spring- Aspect-oriented programming support in Spring- Sending emails using Spring- Asynchronously executing methods using Spring- Task scheduling- Database interaction using JDBC and Hibernate- Programmatic and declarative transaction management- Developing web applications using Spring Web MVC- Data binding and validation in Spring Web MVC- Type conversion and formatting support in Spring- Spring's form tag library- Internationalization and file upload support- Asynchronous request processing- Developing RESTful Web Services using Spring Web MVC- Implementing web request security using Spring Security- Implementing method-level security using Spring Security- Implementing ACL-based security using Spring Security's ACL moduleThe book shows a simple internet banking application that is developed incrementally in each chapter of the book and covers the topics mentioned above.You can post your feedback and questions to the authors in the following Google Groups forum:groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/getting-started-with-spring-framework Read Less