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Spring MVC Blueprints

By : Sherwin John C. Tragura
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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

Overview of the project


The Human Resource Management System (HRMS) project simulates how a human resources department works. The basic activities featured in the system include employee profile management, leave management, attendance monitoring, project performance evaluation, training and career enrichment assessment, and company information dissemination. Just like any typical information system, HRMS has its own administrator module for user and role management. In the meantime, all security is database-driven.

The software design started with the following wireframes suited to start a HRMS prototype with valid functional specifications:

  • The main page: Since the proposed system is an intranet type to be accessed only by employees of a company, the final design for the home page is simply the login page with a signup page at the side.

  • The admin page: The only role of the admin page is to activate, de-activate, penalize, and monitor HRMS access and traffic. The administrator's page has some...