Agile Java Development with Spring, Hibernate and Eclipse

What's Covered in This Chapter

In this chapter, we will look at some beyond-the-basics type features of the various technologies we covered earlier in the book. I have decided to follow the same order that I introduced these technologies in the earlier chapters. In this chapter, we will cover the following material:

• Recently added Java features

• Additional built-in and external Ant tasks

• JUnit custom suites

• Additional Hibernate features

• Other Spring Framework features

• Integrating Hibernate with Spring

• The Displaytag tag library and writing custom tag libraries

• Sample refactoring of our sample application

• Other important considerations such as transaction management, security, exception handling, clustering, and several others

• A simple Ajax example

Note

The complete code for the examples used in this chapter can be found within this book's code zip file (available on the book's website).

Note that this chapter provides very brief descriptions of the features mentioned here. I have taken the approach to demonstrate more by using code over detailed explanations. Also, many of the features mentioned here are covered in detail by their corresponding reference documentation, which I have provided links to.