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10 February 2013

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a hello world Spring MVC application by example.

In this tutorial we will create a simple Spring MVC application. We will create a Controller that will handle an HTTP request and then will choose a view to present useful information to the end-user ... Read more

Spring transaction isolation level tutorial

30 January 2013

In this tutorial you will learn about the transaction isolation level provided by the Spring framework.

Transaction isolation level is a concept that is not exclusive to the Spring framework. It is applied to transactions in general and is directly related with the ACID transaction properties. Isolation... Read more

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Spring transaction propagation tutorial

26 January 2013

In this tutorial you will learn about the transaction propagation behaviors provided by the Spring framework.

While dealing with Spring managed transactions the developer is able to specify how the transactions should behave in terms of propagation. In other words the developer has the ability to decide how t... Read more

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Spring @PostConstruct and @PreDestroy example

10 January 2013

In this tutorial you will learn how to use @PostConstruct and @PreDestroy annotations with Spring.

@PostConstruct and @PreDestroy annotations are not exclusive to Spring: they are a standard and consequently widely used in many container managed environments. Spring container is no exception so you... Read more

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Spring with Hibernate persistence and transactions example

02 January 2013

In this tutorial you will learn how to implement Hibernate persistence using the Spring framework in a transactional fashion.

After reading this tutorial you will be able to implement Hibernate persistence using Spring framework. Additionally you will also use Spring Hibernate transaction manager to manage all the transactio... Read more

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Spring JDBC transactions example

29 December 2012

In this tutorial you will learn how to implement JDBC transactions using the Spring framework.

In this tutorial we will explore one of the most powerful Spring features: The transaction management. At the end of this tutorial we will have used the JDBC Transaction Manager in a declarative way s... Read more

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Spring dependency injection with XML example

26 December 2012

In this tutorial you will learn how to configure Spring dependency injection using the Spring XML configuration file.

Spring dependency injection can be configured by using annotations directly in your Java classes. Another available alternative is to specify it in the Spring XML configuration file as we will see in ... Read more

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Spring dependency injection example

19 December 2012

In this tutorial you will learn how to use Spring dependency injection (or inversion of control) feature.

This tutorial considers the following software and environment: Ubuntu 12.04 Maven 3.0.4 JDK 1.7.0.09 Spring 3.2.0 Configure Maven to get the required Spring dependencies: Maven pom.xml file refe... Read more

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Gonçalo Marques is a Software Engineer with several years of experience in software development and architecture definition. During this period his main focus was delivering software solutions in banking, telecommunications and governmental areas. He created the Bytes Lounge website with one ultimate goal: share his knowledge with the software development community. His main area of expertise is Java and open source.

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