ABOUT THE BOOKThis well-organised book presents the basic ideas, terminology, and application of Spring Framework with Java.The book begins with a discussion on dependency injection, java collections as dependent objects and null values, and moves on to describe JDBC template calss, transaction management and XML marshalling which form the base of Spring Framework. Besides basic AOP concepts, Quartz scheduler and Java massage service (JMS) the book explains spring API for JMS including Java management extensions. The text also deals with accessing e-mails and supported annotations in JUnit as well as spring's support to JUnit. Finally, the book deals with web application development with web MVC and components of web services.The book is primarily meant for the beginners and the intermediates to practice in Spring Framework with Java. Besides students, the book would also be extremely useful for professionals in the field.ABOUT THE AUTHORSB. Mohamed Ibrahim is working as a Lecturer in Computer Science, Jamal Mohamed College, Tiruchirappali, South India. He is regularly articles on recent trends in IT to various leading Computer Magazines. He has presented many research papers on various National-level Conferences and State-level Symposiums. He has served as a resource person in several IT deliberations. He has authored a book titled "Oracle and Developer 2000" which is well received by the students at all levels. His area of interest includes Operating Systems, OOPS and Web Designing.Archana Verma is a dedicated teacher and loves her profession. Her experience with a premier software company and her passion for teaching makes her well equipped to teach in an engineering college and to author this book