This is an introductory example into Spring Core and dependency injection, including e.g. simple REST-style services. It contains a number of unit tests that, in the sense of test-driven development, currently fail. They can, however, easily be fixed by extending the Spring configuration, which we plan to do in a university workshop at Münster, Germany.
- Java 7+ and an understanding of the java language and basic patterns such as the singleton and the factory pattern
- Maven 3+ or an IDE that includes appropriate support for maven builds
- You do not need to change the tests to make them pass
- Spring Java-Config only, no XML required
- Autowired dependencies are acceptable only in test classes
- Prefer centralised constructor injection over setter-injection or annotation based DI configurations
- All tests can be started (and passed) independently
- Tests may not interfere with each other
- Do not access the bean factory or context classes directly (i.e. using anything anlong the lines of a getBean(..)-Statement is prohibited)