Category: Spring

Spring provides a custom JavaServer Faces VariableResolver implementation that extends the standard JavaServer Faces managed beans mechanism. When asked to resolve a variable name, the following algorithm is performed: Does a bean with the...

Spring – JSF integration is useful when an event handler wishes to explicitly invoke the bean factory to create beans on demand, such as a bean that encapsulates the business logic to be performed...

To integrate your Struts application with Spring, we have two options: Configure Spring to manage your Actions as beans, using the ContextLoaderPlugin, and set their dependencies in a Spring context file. Subclass Spring’s ActionSupport...

A bean factory is fine to simple applications, but to take advantage of the full power of the Spring framework, you may want to move up to Springs more advanced container, the application context....

On the surface, an application context is same as a bean factory. But application context offers much more. Application contexts provide a means for resolving text messages, including support for i18n of those messages....

A BeanFactory is like a factory class that contains a collection of beans. The BeanFactory holds Bean Definitions of multiple beans within itself and then instantiates the bean whenever asked for by clients. BeanFactory...

Setter Injection: Setter-based DI is realized by calling setter methods on your beans after invoking a no-argument constructor or no-argument static factory method to instantiate your bean. Constructor Injection: Constructor-based DI is realized by...

The advantages of Spring are as follows: Spring has layered architecture. Use what you need and leave you don’t need now. Spring Enables POJO Programming. There is no behind the scene magic here. POJO...

Lightweight: spring is lightweight when it comes to size and transparency. The basic version of spring framework is around 1MB. And the processing overhead is also very negligible. Inversion of control (IOC): Loose coupling...

Spring comprises of seven modules. They are. The core container: The core container provides the essential functionality of the Spring framework. A primary component of the core container is the BeanFactory, an implementation of...