Today,more and more companies want to develop distributed transactional applications for the enterprise and leverage the speed,security,and reliability of server-side technology. Before presenting a way of designing such a system,several key terms need to be understood.
April 1, 2008
This section details the structure and functionality of the Hibernate XML Configuration File and the Hibernate Mapping Files.
April 1, 2008
Before the advent of Hibernate, there were so many other technologies and specifications from Sun, for persistence. Few are them are explained in detail in the following sections along with their drawbacks which led them not being able to become a successful one.
April 1, 2008
Bean Lifecyle
The entire Bean objects defined in the Xml Configuration File undergoes a Standard Lifecycle Mechanism. Lifecycle interfaces like InitializingBean and DisposableBean are available. Care should be taken while using these Interfaces. Since these are Spring specific Interfaces, your application code will tightly be Coupled with the Spring Implementation. So define and use these interfaces when there is really a need.
April 1, 2008
Bean Definition Configuration File
All the basic definition of the Bean classes along with the Configuration Information, their relationships with other Bean objects can be defined in the Xml Configuration File. The Schema Definition of the Bean Xml Configuration file is very vast in terms of Definitions and Functionalities and the subsequent sections aims in covering only the major configuration features.
April 1, 2008
Spring Core API
The Core API in Spring is very limited and it generally involves in Configuring, Creating and Making Associations between various Business Components. Spring refers to these Business Components as Beans. The following are the Core Classes or the Interfaces that are available in the Spring for achieving the goal.
