Spring Essentials

Spring Essentials

Overview of this book

Spring is an open source Java application development framework to build and deploy systems and applications that run on the JVM. It is the industry standard and the most popular framework among Java developers with over two-thirds of developers using it. Spring Essentials makes learning Spring so much quicker and easier with the help of illustrations and practical examples. Starting from the core concepts of features such as inversion of Control Container and BeanFactory, we move on to a detailed look at aspect-oriented programming. We cover the breadth and depth of Spring MVC, the WebSocket technology, Spring Data, and Spring Security with various authentication and authorization mechanisms. Packed with real-world examples, you’ll get an insight into utilizing the power of Spring Expression Language in your applications for higher maintainability. You’ll also develop full-duplex real-time communication channels using WebSocket and integrate Spring with web technologies such as JSF, Struts 2, and Tapestry. At the tail end, you will build a modern SPA using EmberJS at the front end and a Spring MVC-based API at the back end.By the end of the book, you will be able to develop your own dull-fledged applications with Spring.

Spring Essentials

Credits

About the Authors

About the Reviewer

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

Free Chapter

Getting Started with Spring Core

The Spring landscape

Design concepts behind Spring Framework

Setting up the development environment

Your first Spring application

Dependency Injection

Beans in detail

Hooking to bean life cycles

Container-level default-init-method and default-destroy-method

Working with bean definition profiles

Injecting properties into the Spring environment

Externalizing properties with PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer

Handling resources

Spring Expression Language

Aspect Oriented Programming

Testing with Spring

Summary

Building the Web Layer with Spring Web MVC

Features of Spring MVC

The Model-View-Controller pattern

Your first Spring MVC application

Setting up a Spring MVC application

The architecture and components of Spring MVC

DispatcherServlet explained

Controllers in detail

Asynchronous request processing in Spring MVC

Working with views

Spring and Spring form tag libraries

Composing a form in JSP

Validating forms

Handling file uploads

Resolving Thymeleaf views

More view technologies

Summary

Accessing Data with Spring

Configuring DataSource

Using embedded databases

Handling exceptions in the Spring Data layer

DAO support and @Repository annotation

Spring JDBC abstraction

Spring Data

Spring Transaction support

Relevance of Spring Transaction

Summary

Understanding WebSocket

Creating a simple WebSocket application

STOMP over WebSocket and the fallback option in Spring 4

Broadcasting a message to a single user in a WebSocket application

Summary

Securing Your Applications

Authentication

Authorization

Summary

Building a Single-Page Spring Application

The motivations behind SPAs

SPAs explained

Introducing Ember.js

The anatomy of an Ember application

Working with Ember CLI

Understanding the Ember object model

Working with collections

Building UI templates using Handlebars

Handling routes

Handling UI behavior using components

Persisting data with Ember Data

Building a Taskify application

Building the API server app

Building the Taskify Ember app

Summary

Integrating with Other Web Frameworks

Spring's JSF integration

Spring's Struts integration

Summary

Index

Customer Reviews

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Building the Taskify Ember app

Let's get back to Ember development to build our SPA. Follow these steps. We will occasionally refer to previous sections of this chapter, and detail the specifics here.

Setting up Taskify as an Ember CLI project

Let's generate the project and set up all the artifacts. Follow these steps:

Create a new Ember project using Ember CLI from the command line:
```
ember new taskify
```
Install broccoli-merge-trees and broccoli-static-compiler for a richer Broccoli configuration. Issue the following commands from the command line:
```
npm install --save-dev broccoli-merge-trees
npm install --save-dev broccoli-static-compiler
```
Install Bootstrap with Bower from the command line:
```
bower install bootstrap
```

Configure Broccoli to include bootstrap.js, CSS, and fonts in the ember-cli-build.js file:

  var mergeTrees = require('broccoli-merge-trees');
  var pickFiles = require('broccoli-static-compiler');
  var extraAssets = pickFiles('bower_components/bootstrap/dist/fonts',{ srcDir: '/', files...

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