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Spring 5.0 Cookbook

By : Sherwin John C. Tragura
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Spring 5.0 Cookbook

By: Sherwin John C. Tragura

Overview of this book

The Spring framework has been the go-to framework for Java developers for quite some time. It enhances modularity, provides more readable code, and enables the developer to focus on developing the application while the underlying framework takes care of transaction APIs, remote APIs, JMX APIs, and JMS APIs. The upcoming version of the Spring Framework has a lot to offer, above and beyond the platform upgrade to Java 9, and this book will show you all you need to know to overcome common to advanced problems you might face. Each recipe will showcase some old and new issues and solutions, right from configuring Spring 5.0 container to testing its components. Most importantly, the book will highlight concurrent processes, asynchronous MVC and reactive programming using Reactor Core APIs. Aside from the core components, this book will also include integration of third-party technologies that are mostly needed in building enterprise applications. By the end of the book, the reader will not only be well versed with the essential concepts of Spring, but will also have mastered its latest features in a solution-oriented manner.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Designing a simple form @Controller


This concept is related to the creation of the file uploading transaction in the previous recipe, but the concept here is leaning towards general form handling transactions.

Getting started

The same ch03 project will be used to implement a simple form controller. The recipe will still revolve around controllers and request handlers, with emphasis on creating form backing objects and Spring Form tag libraries.

How to do it...

To implement form handling using Spring 5, perform the following steps:

  1. Let us first implement the model object that will contain all request data during form transactions. The form_page handles all the HTML components that will receive all request parameters from the client. To organize these numerous parameters during the request dispatch, it will be ideal if we create a form model or form backing object to persist all this data. This strategy can avoid a convoluted declaration of request parameters at the @Controller level. So, before...