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Getting Started with Spring
Introducing Spring	p. 3
Getting Started	p. 13
Introducing Inversion of Control	p. 31
Beyond the Basics	p. 73
Introducing Spring AOP	p. 147
Advanced AOP	p. 199
Spring Schemas and Namespaces	p. 259
Spring Patterns	p. 279
Data Access
JDBC Support	p. 319
iBATIS Integration	p. 373
Hibernate Support	p. 399
Enterprise Application Components
Job Scheduling with Spring	p. 445
Mail Support in Spring	p. 477
Dynamic Languages	p. 511
Java EE 5
Using Spring Remoting	p. 533
Transaction Management	p. 575
Web Applications with Spring MVC	p. 611
Spring Web Flow	p. 711
Spring and AJAX	p. 757
JMX with Spring	p. 771
Testing with Spring	p. 793
Spring Performance Tuning	p. 829
Index	p. 857
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