Dave Minter has adored computers since he was small enough to play in the boxes they came in. He built his first PC from discarded, faulty, and obsolete components, and considers that to be the foundation of his career as an integration consultant. Dave is based in London, where he helps large and small companies build systems that "just work." He co-authored Building Portals with the Java Portlet API and Pro Hibernate 3.

An Introduction to Spring.- Presenting the Sample Application.- The Heart of Spring: Inversion of Control.- Data Access.- The Service Layer, Transaction Management, and AOP.- Web Applications.- Security.- Sending E-mail.- Remoting.- Testing.

This book will take developers through the first steps of using Spring whilst discussing the relevant technologies that Spring can be integrated with, what to be aware of and how working with Spring makes them easier to use. It focuses on the most useful features of Spring, including persistence and transaction management as well as the complete Spring web tools portfolio, and also introduces 3-tier application design and how to test these designs.

Ideal for J2EE beginners, this book provides a broad insight into Spring's enterprise Java-based technologies, whilst showing how to use Spring correctly.