Introduction.

Chapter 1: Introducing the Spring Framework.

Chapter 2: The Bean Factory and Application Context.

Chapter 3: Advanced Container Concepts.

Chapter 4: Spring and AOP.

Chapter 5: DAO Support and JDBC Framework.

Chapter 6: Transaction and Resource Management.

Chapter 7: Object/Relational Mapping.

Chapter 8: Lightweight Remoting.

Chapter 9: Supporting Services.

Chapter 10: Acegi Security System for Spring.

Chapter 11: Spring and EJB.

Chapter 12: Web MVC Framework.

Chapter 13: Web View Technologies.

Chapter 14: Integrating with Other Web Frameworks.

Chapter 15: The Sample Application.

Chapter 16: Conclusion.

Appendix A: Requirements for the Sample Application.

Index.