List of Tables

Chapter 2. Wiring beans

Table 2.1. Spring comes with several XML namespaces through which you can configure the Spring container

Table 2.2. Spring’s bean scopes let you declare the scope under which beans are created without hard-coding the scoping rules in the bean class itself.

Table 2.3. Just as Java has several kinds of collections, Spring allows for injecting several kinds of collections

Table 2.4. An <entry> in a <map> is made up of a key and a value, either of which can be a primitive value or a reference to another bean. These attributes help specify the keys and values of an <entry>.

Table 2.5. SpEL includes several operators that you can use to manipulate the values of an expression.

Table 2.6. SpEL includes several operators that you can use to manipulate the values of an expression.

Table 2.7. SpEL includes several operators that you can use to manipulate the values of an expression.

Chapter 3. Minimizing XML configuration in Spring

Table 3.1. Component scanning can be customized using any of five kinds of filters.

Chapter 4. Aspect-oriented Spring

Table 4.1. Spring leverages AspectJ’s pointcut expression language for defining Spring aspects.

Table 4.2. Spring’s AOP configuration elements simplify declaration of POJO-based aspects.

Chapter 5. Hitting the database

Table 5.1. JDBC’s exception hierarchy versus Spring’s data access exceptions

Table 5.2. Spring comes with several data access templates, each suitable for a different persistence mechanism.