Book Image

Spring MVC Blueprints

By : Sherwin John C. Tragura
Book Image

Spring MVC Blueprints

By: Sherwin John C. Tragura

Overview of this book

Spring MVC is the ideal tool to build modern web applications on the server side. With the arrival of Spring Boot, developers can really focus on the code and deliver great value, leveraging the rich Spring ecosystem with minimal configuration. Spring makes it simple to create RESTful applications, interact with social services, communicate with modern databases, secure your system, and make your code modular and easy to test. It is also easy to deploy the result on different cloud providers. This book starts all the necessary topics in starting a Spring MVC-based application. Moving ahead it explains how to design model objects to handle file objects. save files into a data store and how Spring MVC behaves when an application deals with uploading and downloading files. Further it highlights form transactions and the user of Validation Framework as the tool in validating data input. It shows how to create a customer feedback system which does not require a username or password to log in. It will show you the soft side of Spring MVC where layout and presentation are given importance. Later it will discuss how to use Spring Web Flow on top of Spring MVC to create better web applications. Moving ahead, it will teach you how create an Invoice Module that receives and transport data using Web Services By the end of the book you will be able to create efficient and flexible real-time web applications using all the frameworks in Spring MVC.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Spring MVC Blueprints
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Technical requirements


All the core configuration setup has already been discussed in the previous chapters. The focus of this chapter is to integrate Spring MVC applications with plugins and libraries that can be used to render data in many forms.

Rendition is the process of creating a copy of the original document in a different format such as PDF, HTML, TEXT, or any valid formats. In web applications, we consider HTML as our default format for data presentation.

Aside from rendition types, we need to highlight some libraries that can help the application process all ordinal and nominal data into a visual representation.

iText 5.x

iText is an open source API that can be downloaded from http://itextpdf.com. It is a powerful and efficient tool for PDF, HTML, RTF, and XML documents generation. iText has a huge support on a variety of fonts to be used in the document. The code structure of iText allows you to generate any of the supported types of documents with a common code.

The iText library...