I am new to spring. I was looking into spring-oxm's XStreamMarshaller. I was hoping to find a way to convert my objects into xml using this. The spring site tells me clearly how to do it but it still needs me to add a XStream dependency in my POM. I don't understand what the use of spring-oxm is? If i had to add the xstream dependency anyway then i can directly use xstreams toXml operation and be done with it? I would really appreciate any help I could get in understanding the use of spring-oxm.
Thanks a lot in advance!
Spring provides a higher level abstraction for you by eliminating the scaffolding code you need to write. For e.g. in case of OXM you will be working with Marshaller and Unmarshaller abstractions irrespective of the underlying implementations uses (XStream, JAXB, Castor, XmlBeans etc). Moreover it lets you use DI for injecting marshalling/unmarshalling services to your own services. Another advantage is consistent exception hierarchy irrespective of the underlying implementation. All these are well explained on their reference documentation.
If you have very simple needs and doesn't already use Spring then I suggest you stick to JAXB that comes with JDK 6.
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Which below case will give me better performance
Using Spring Boot Autowired annotation for creating an object
Or
Using new key for creating an object.
I understand with spring annotations will have a choice of using lot more inbuilt features.
Kindly help me to understand
You need to learn an Inversion of Control pattern first of all: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inversion_of_control
Then you need to make yourself familiar with Spring Framework as an implementation of it: https://spring.io/projects/spring-framework
In two words answering your question: the Spring way with its dependency injection is much better by performance at runtime, then manual new managing. Just because Spring instantiates objects only once, at start up (mostly) and then provide you those ready objects. With new you have to manage then yourself and in most cases you lose with GC and memory (de)allocation.
I want to remove spring from a little library that really doesn't need it in favour of wiring the classes together in code. I feel it should be possible to auto-generate the code to stick the library together using the same logic Spring does to do it at runtime. Does code to do this already exist?
(Of course it might be more complicated for any AOP type stuff Spring is doing - but when it's just vanilla instantiation and autowiring it should be relatively simple?)
I started learning spring today and i have a question regarding what happens to the annotations when java files with annotations is compiled ?.
The reason i am asking this is because of the fundamental difference i see when we choose to use the xml approach vs the annotations approach , and what i think is the philosophy of spring. The way i understand is spring says that all your java classes can be simple pojo's and all the spring related config should be kept independent (Like xml file.)
In case of developing spring application using xml *.java files have no idea about spring container and are compiled in to .class without any spring related dependencies.
But now when we annotate the .java file and the file is compiled the compiled file now has all spring related dependencies hard baked in to it and no longer are your classes simple pojo's.
Is this correct ? I am not sure if i am missing some thing here.
Annotations can be considered as metadata of a class or its element (method, field, local variable...). When you put annotation, you don't implement any behaviour. You just give additional info on an element.
That way, Spring, which is in charge of instanciating its bean can collect the info with reflection (see also this site) and process it.
To conclude, your Spring beans still remain POJO and there is no difference with the XML way (...from that point of view) since Spring gets from annotations the information it would have got from XML .
I think you are right and your question is justifiable, that's the way how I think about it too.
Not only compiled code but also dependency on spring jars bother me. Once you use this annotations your resulting jar depends on spring library.
It's reasonable to store beans in model according to DDD but spring is some kind of infrastructure layer so I didn't like the dependency.
Even if you would use XML, it's useful for few placed to use attributes. E.g. #Required attribute which is useful to verify that linked bean was injected. So, I've decide to use constructor dependency injection to omit this attribute, see my article. I completely leave out the dependency on spring in the code.
You can probably find such mind hook for many annotation you want/force to use.
You can use annotations only for your configuration classes, without marking them actual bean classes. In such scenario if you not use spring you just not load configuration classes.
What is the Difference between Spring IOC and Spring AOP and their Importance ?
Have you searched the web for IoC and AOP? There are a lot of references to both.
In a nutshell, IoC allows an external force to determine what implementation will be used by code rather than the code determining the implementation. The "external force" might be a configuration file, a unit test, other different code, etc.
AOP allows cross-cutting concerns to be implemented outside of the code affected by those concerns.
The "purpose" of Spring includes IoC and AOP, but goes quite a ways beyond that in its scope.
For more details please check.
Inversion of Control Containers and the Dependency Injection pattern and
Aspect-oriented programming
Also check this
What is AOP, Dependency Injection and Inversion Of Control in Simple English
IoC, AOP and more
Spring IOC: In simple answer normally you create object with new operator and set yourself for getter and setter. So, yes we use new operator in Java to create object. There is no any bad in doing this. But, when your project size grows and lots of developers are working, and you want to achieve POJO-based programming, you can use DI. So then maybe your question arises - why I can not code it myself? Of course you can use the power of reflection, annotation, and XML. But, some other had already coded this then why not reuse the third party one? There are lots of options for you to choose; Spring can be the best one. It manages your object life cycle from object creation to its destruction. You use the objects created and set by Spring DI container but you do not create them yourself.
Spring AOP: It is related to cross cutting concern. What it mean is in large system the common functionality is scattered throughout different modules. So AOP provides an easiest way to take out a common implementation in the form of 'aspect'. You can also in this case write own implementation using proxy concept but you can reuse the code of proxy based that is implementation of APO alliance using Spring.
Objective of Spring IOC is to reduce explicit dependencies between components, while purpose of Spring AOP is to wire components together possibly by enforcing certain common behavior (read: NOT Interface)
Since purpose of Spring AOP is to enforce certain behavior across components.So, Spring IOC comes in handy to achieve this purpose
Spring is a popular framework, however I have difficulties to see in which situation the framework would actually help.
Currently I'm using the following:
* Tomcat
* Jersey
* Jackson
* Hibernate
Together this results in a Webservice, created by annotations, automatic JSON (un)marshalling and a comfortable Object/Relational Mapping.
So honestly at the moment I'm not missing anything, but I might just not know what great thing I'm missing... Could you help me out with this?
Thank you
Spring is a big framework providing a lot of functionality. It's hard to talk about advantages without knowing what functionality are you trying to use in the project.
Most probably you talk about Spring as an IoC container. It is very important part of Spring, but there is also AOP, transaction management, JDBC abstraction layer, authentication and authorization, testing and some more.
In a nutshell, Spring offers you uniform way to control dependencies between your objects. This is called inversion of control or dependency injection. Using it you can create pluggable, testable code that is easy to maintain.
In addition it gives you gazillion utility classes that just make life easier. For example, Hibernate is much easier to maintain via Spring facilities. It kind of brings together many different technologies under the same roof.