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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
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Preface

Creating web layouts


A layout is a composition of fonts, colors, backgrounds, pages, and other sub-layouts which interact with one another to promote a brand. Technically, a layout is also called a tile which consists of different views that emerges as one bigger face for a profile, organization, or business used to promote an advocacy or goals. Together with web themes and components, Spring can integrate with frameworks that are popular in implementing tiles for the objective of the application.

Apache tiles 3

A common tiles framework that has been proven to give support to Spring is the Apache Tiles 3.x framework. Apache Tiles provides some of the HMS with the common layout design to lessen the time of view implementation. If there are repetitions of view features and components, we create a tile layout where all common components are plotted. Then, this tile layout will be used as a template for all pages that shares common features. This layout consists of different structures of sub...