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Spring MVC and Web Flow tutorial

Posted by mansoor - 21/03/08 at 03:03:50 pm

The presentation is back from 2005/2006, but still the core is almost the same. So if you want a simple and quick start tutorial about how Spring Framework does the MVC and Web Flow, this is the right place to hit.

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Config file in SpringFramework

Posted by mansoor - 03/01/07 at 07:01:04 am

Pack xml files in SpringFramework.

In my recent project, we are using a in-house framework (which i would be calling as “Framework”) which is backed by SpringFramework and Hiberante ( i had also added DWR support also ). We have actually added some helper methods and class hierarchies to avoid bolier plate code as much as possible.

One of the possible problems that i was thinkging was to have all of the SpringFramework related config files packed in a single jar file. As this will be in a jar file, so it would be difficult for the team who is using this framework (means that they wouldn’t really mess with the xml files) to go and possible modify them, which will eventually brick the framework.

I know that some of the readers will definately not agree, but to avoid potential problems, and to keep the Framework config files isolated from other .xml files that users will create for SpringMVC or other parts of Spring , we really needed to do that. Here is the solution :

First, you need to modify the web.xml and make it look like this :

[code lang=”xml”]

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org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet

contextConfigLocation /WEB-INF/conf/myapp-servlet.xml,
classpath*:adapter-config.xml,
classpath*:dao-tier-config.xml,
classpath*:service-config.xml,
classpath*:web-config.xml
1

[/code]

You will see that we added ‘classpath*:’ as prefix of every .xml file. We ingnored ‘myapp-servlet.xml’ as this file is not part of the framewok.

Next, add all of the files wiht ‘classpath*:’ in a single jar file and put it in the WEB-INF/lib folder. Thats all !.

This similar approach can also be used in the Spring based non-web applications.

Which JDK you want to use ?

Posted by mansoor - 18/10/06 at 09:10:08 am

There are quite a few versions of JDK. 1.4, 1.5 and (under-development) 1.6. Want to choose the one ?, read this.

SWT : Not ready for Prime Time ???

Posted by mansoor - 18/02/05 at 02:02:34 pm

Currently I am working on a desktop application for my Company. After some research I convinced my Management to prefer SWT over Swing/AWT because of a million reasons, the development team was also very impressed Eclipse IDE itself and when they started…

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