Pivotal Certified Spring Enterprise Integration Specialist Exam: A Study Guide

Exam topics covered include tasks and scheduling, remoting, the Spring Web Services framework, RESTful services with Spring MVC, the Spring JMS module, JMS and JTA transactions with Spring, batch processing with Spring Batch and the Spring Integration framework. Prepare with confidence for the Pivotal Enterprise Integration with Spring Exam.

One of the important aspects of this book is a focus on new and modern abstractions provided by Spring. Therefore most of the features are shown with Java annotations alongside established XML configurations. Most of the examples in the book are also based on the Spring Boot framework. Spring Boot adoption is exponential because of its capability to significantly simplify Spring configuration using sensible opinionated defaults. But Spring Boot is not the target of the exam, therefore all the features are also covered with plain Spring configuration examples.

• How to use Spring to create concurrent applications and schedule tasks
• How to do remoting to implement client-server applications
• How to work with Spring Web services to create loosely coupled Web services and clients
• How to use Spring MVC to create RESTful web services and clients
• How to integrate JMS for asynchronous messaging-based communication
• How to use local JMS transactions with Spring
• How to configure global JTA transactions with Spring
• How to use Spring Integration to create event-driven pipes-and-filters architectures and integrate with external applications
• How to use Spring Batch for managed, scalable batch processing that is based on both custom and built-in processing components

About the Author

Lubos Krnac started his career as an embedded Software Developer and these capabilities were also the focus of his studies. Eventually, he moved towards Java and Spring development. For nearly seven years, he worked on Web and Enterprise projects of various sizes and domains. He has has experience developing applications based on most of the Spring frameworks covered by this book, and gained his Spring Enterprise Integration Specialist certification in 2014.

He is naturally amazed by Spring ecosystem, and has a passion for automation and testing. One of the reasons why Spring is the framework of choice for him is its testability.

Lubos writes blog posts on his site lkrnac-dot-net, which are often re-published on DZone, Java Code Geeks and Web Code Geeks. He is also interested in modern JavaScript development: ES6, Node.JS, Grunt, Gulp, loopback.js, Angular.js. His twitter handle is @luboskrnac, and email address is lubos.krnac@gmail-dot-com.