Getting started with Spring Framework is a hands-on guide to begin developing applications using Spring Framework. This book is meant for Java developers with little or no knowledge of Spring Framework. All the examples shown in this book use Spring 3.2. Chapter 1 - Spring Framework basics Chapter 2 - Configuring beans Chapter 3 - Dependency injection Chapter 4 - Customizing beans and bean definitionsChapter 5 - Annotation-driven development with SpringChapter 6 - Database interaction using SpringChapter 7 - Messaging, emailing, asynchronous method execution, and caching using Spring Chapter 8 - Aspect-oriented programming