Spring Integration

The Spring Framework is a popular application development framework for enterprise Java. One key element is its infrastructural support: a light-weighted IoC (Inversion of Control) container that manages POJOs as Spring beans and their dependency relationship.

The most common integration way is to let Spring manage class dependencies of an application. When a class "A" references a class "B" and calls B's method, we say that A depends on B. In examples of previous chapters, we create this dependency by instantiating B class in A class as follows:

public class ProfileViewController extends SelectorComposer<Component>{

    AuthenticationService authService = new AuthenticationServiceChapter8Impl();
    ...
}

• ProfileViewController depends on AuthenticationService.

Spring can help us manage these dependencies without instantiating dependent classes manually. In this chapter, we won't create new example applications but will make previous examples integrate with Spring.

Source Code

As we mentioned in the Introduction, our source code has 3 branches in github. The source code of this chapter's example belongs to the branch: zk8-spring. You can select the branch and click "zip" icon to download as a zip.

We don't create new examples in this chapter, but we re-organize some classes. You can see from the image below. We move all service class implementations to the package org.zkoss.essentials.services.impl.