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Spring MVC: Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

By : Amuthan Ganeshan
Book Image

Spring MVC: Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

By: Amuthan Ganeshan

Overview of this book

Spring MVC helps you build flexible and loosely coupled web applications. The Spring MVC Framework is architected and designed in such a way that every piece of logic and functionality is highly configurable. Also, Spring can integrate effortlessly with other popular web frameworks such as Struts, WebWork, Java Server Faces, and Tapestry. The book progressively teaches you to configure the Spring development environment, architecture, controllers, libraries, and more before moving on to developing a full web application. It begins with an introduction to the Spring development environment and architecture so you're familiar with the know-hows. From here, we move on to controllers, views, validations, Spring Tag libraries, and more. Finally, we integrate it all together to develop a web application. You'll also get to grips with testing applications for reliability.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Spring MVC Beginner's Guide - Second Edition
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Preface

The Domain layer


So let's start with the Domain layer. The Domain layer typically consists of a domain model. So what is a domain model? A domain model is a representation of the data storage types required by the business logic. It describes the various domain objects (entities), their attributes, roles, and relationships, plus the constraints that govern the problem domain. You can look at the following order processing domain model diagram to get a quick idea about the domain model.

A sample domain model

Each block in the previous diagram represents a business entity and the lines represent the associations between the entities. Based on this domain model diagram, you should understand that in an order processing domain, a Customer can have many Order and each order can have many OrderItem and each OrderItem represents a single Product.

During actual coding and development this domain model, will be converted into corresponding domain objects and associations by a developer. A domain object...