Getting started with Spring Framework is a hands-on guide to begin developing applications using Spring Framework. This book is meant for Java developers with little or no knowledge of Spring Framework. All the examples shown in this book use Spring 3.2. You can download the examples (consisting of 40 sample projects) described in this book from the following Google Code project: code.google.com/p/getting-started-with-spring-framework/ Chapter 1 - Spring Framework basics Chapter 2 - Configuring beans Chapter 3 - Dependency injection Chapter 4 - Customizing beans and bean definitions Chapter 5 - Annotation-driven development with Spring Chapter 6 - Database interaction using Spring Chapter 7 - Messaging, emailing, asynchronous method execution, and caching using Spring Chapter 8 - Aspect-oriented programming This 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 The 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