Core Spring Questions

Spring questions:

• Describe the life cycle of a bean in Spring.
• What is the difference between singleton and prototype bean? Give an example when you would want to use one or the other.
• What are the advantages of using Spring?
• What are the main features of Spring?
• What is Dependency Injection/IOC?
• What are the three types of dependency injection? Which ones do Spring support?
• Name all the 7 modules of Spring and describe what they are.
• What's Bean Factory? What's Application Context? Describe the differences and when would you want to use one or the other?
• What is auto wiring? Name all five modes.
• Name two ways of accessing Hibernate using Spring.
• What is AOP?
• What is Aspect?
• What is JointPoint?
• What is Advice? Name 5 type of Advice.
• Why use declarative over programmatic transaction management?
• What are the main differences between EJB CMT and Spring's declarative transaction management?
• Does Spring's transaction management support transaction context over remote calls?
• Describe the main differences between EJB and Spring.