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Enterprise Application Development with Ext JS and Spring

By : Gerald Gierer
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Enterprise Application Development with Ext JS and Spring

By: Gerald Gierer

Overview of this book

Spring and Ext JS are cutting edge frameworks that allow us to build high performance web applications for modern devices, that are now consuming data at a faster rate than ever before. It is the appropriate time for you to understand how to best leverage these technologies when architecting, designing, and developing large scale web development projects. This practical guide condenses an approach to web development that was gained from real world projects, and outlines a simple, practical approach to developing high performance, and enterprise grade web applications. Starting with configuring Java, NetBeans, and MySQL to prepare your development environment, you will then learn how to connect your NetBeans IDE to the MySQL database server. We will then explore the Task Time Tracker (3T) project database structure and populate these tables with test data. Following on from this, we will examine core JPA concepts after reverse engineering the domain layer with NetBeans. Leveraging the Data Access Object design pattern, you will learn how to build the Java DAO implementation layer assisted by generics in base classes, followed by a Data Transfer Object enabled service layer to encapsulate the business logic of your 3T application. The final chapters that focus on Java explore how to implement the request handling layer using Spring annotated controllers, and deploy the 3T application to the GlassFish server. We will then configure the Ext JS 4 development environment and introduce key Ext JS 4 concepts, including MVC and practical design conventions. Covering a variety of important Ext JS 4 strategies and concepts, you will be fully-equipped to implement a variety of different user interfaces using the Ext JS MVC design pattern. Your journey ends by exploring the production build and deployment process using Maven, Sencha Cmd and GlassFish.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Enterprise Application Development with Ext JS and Spring
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Introducing Spring Data JPA
Index

The Spring HandlerInterceptor interface


Spring's request handling mapping mechanism includes the ability to intercept requests by using handler interceptors. These interceptors are used to apply some type of functionality to the requests as in our example of checking whether a user is in session. The interceptors must implement the HandlerInterceptor interface from the org.springframework.web.servlet package where it is possible to apply the functionality in the following three ways:

  • Before the handler method is executed by implementing the preHandle method

  • After the handler method is executed by implementing the postHandle method

  • After the complete request has finished execution by implementing the afterCompletion method

The HandlerInterceptorAdapter abstract class, along with the predefined empty implementations for each method, is normally used to implement custom handlers. Our UserInSessionInterceptor class is defined as follows:

package com.gieman.tttracker.web;

import com.gieman.tttracker...