Preface

Spring is an open source Java application development framework that is used to build and deploy systems and applications that run on a JVM. It makes efficiently built modular and testable web applications, by using a Model-View-Controller paradigm and dependency injection. It seamlessly integrates with numerous frameworks (such as Hibernate, MyBatis, Jersey, and so on), and reduces boilerplate code when using standard technologies, such as JDBC, JPA, and JMS.

The purpose of this book is to teach intermediate-level Spring developers to master Java application development with Spring, applying advanced concepts and using additional modules to extend the core framework. This is done to develop more advanced, strongly integrated applications.