Spring Python 1.1 -- Table of Contents -- Spring Python 1.1 -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Getting Started with Spring Python -- Spring Python for Python developers -- Exploring Spring Python's non-invasive nature -- Adding in some useful templates -- Spring Python for Java developers -- Extending Spring Python -- Installing Spring Python -- Setting up an environment for Spring Python -- Installing from a pre-built binary download -- Installing from source -- Spring Python community -- Summary -- 2. The Heart of Spring Python-Inversion of Control -- Swapping production code with test doubles -- More about Inversion of Control -- Adding Inversion of Control to our application -- Dependency Injection a.k.a. the Hollywood principle -- Adding Inversion of Control to our test -- Container versus Context -- Lazy objects -- Scoped objects -- Property driven objects -- Post processor objects -- Context aware objects -- Debate about IoC in dynamic languages -- Migrating a Spring Java application to Python -- Summary -- 3. Adding Services to APIs -- AOP from 10,000 feet -- Crosscutting versus hierarchical -- Crosscutting elements -- Weaving crosscutting behavior -- Adding caching to Spring Python objects -- Applying many advisors to a service -- Performance cost of AOP -- AOP is a paradigm, not a library -- Distinct features of Spring Python's AOP module -- The risks of AOP -- AOP is part of the Spring triangle -- Testing our aspects -- Decoupling the service from the advice -- Testing our service -- Confirming that our service is correctly woven into the API -- Summary -- 4. Easily Writing SQL Queries with Spring Python -- The classic SQL issue.

Parameterizing the code -- Replacing multiple lines of query code with one line of Spring Python -- The Spring triangle-Portable Service Abstractions -- Using DatabaseTemplate to retrieve objects -- Mapping queries by convention over configuration -- Mapping queries into dictionaries -- DatabaseTemplate and ORMs -- Solutions provided by DatabaseTemplate -- How DatabaseTemplate and ORMs can work together -- Testing our data access layer with mocks -- How much testing is enough? -- Summary -- 5. Adding Integrity to your Data Access with Transactions -- Classic transaction issues -- Creating a banking application -- Transactions and their properties -- Getting transactions right is hard -- Simplify by using @transactional -- More about TransactionTemplate -- The Spring Triangle-Portable Service Abstractions -- Programmatic transactions -- Configuring with the IoC container -- Configuring without the IoC container -- @transactional versus programmatic -- Making new functions play nice with existing transactions -- How Spring Python lets us define a transaction's ACID properties -- Applying transactions to non-transactional code -- Testing your transactions -- Summary -- 6. Securing your Application with Spring Python -- Problems with coding security by hand -- Building web applications ignoring security -- Looking at our web application from 10,000 feet -- Handling new security requirements -- Authentication confirms "who you are" -- Authorization confirms "what you can do" -- Time to add security to our application -- Accessing security data from within the app -- Testing application security -- Configuring SQL-based security -- Configuring LDAP-based security -- Using multiple security providers is easy -- Migrating from an old security solution to a new one -- Supporting multiple user communities -- Providing redundant security access.

Coding our own security extension -- Coding a custom authentication provider -- Some of the challenges with Spring Python Security -- Summary -- 7. Scaling your Application Across Nodes with Spring Python's Remoting -- Introduction to Pyro (Python Remote Objects) -- Converting a simple application into a distributed one on the same machine -- Fetching the service from an IoC container -- Creating a client to call the service -- Making our application distributed without changing the client -- Is our example contrived? -- Spring Python is non-invasive -- Scaling our application -- Converting the single-node backend into multiple instances -- Creating a round-robin dispatcher -- Adjusting client configuration without client code knowing its talking to multiple node backend -- Summary -- 8. Case Study I-Integrating Spring Python with your Web Application -- Requirements for a good bank -- Building a skeleton web application -- Securing the application -- Building some basic customer functions -- Coding more features -- Updating the main page with more features -- Refining the ability to open an account -- Adding the ability to close an account -- Adding the ability to withdraw money -- Adding the ability to deposit money -- Adding the ability to transfer money -- Showing account history -- Issues with customer features -- Securing Alice's accounts -- Adding overdraft protection to withdrawals -- Making transfers transactional -- Remotely accessing logs -- Creating audit logs -- Summary -- 9. Creating Skeleton Apps with Coily -- Plugin approach of Coily -- Key functions of coily -- Required parts of a plugin -- Creating a skeleton CherryPy app -- Summary -- 10. Case Study II-Integrating Spring Python with your Java Application -- Building a flight reservation system -- Building a web app the fastest way -- Looking up existing flights.

Moving from sample Python data to real Java data -- Issues with wrapping Java code -- Summary -- Index.