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Spring MVC Cookbook

By : Alexandre Bretet, Alex Bretet
Book Image

Spring MVC Cookbook

By: Alexandre Bretet, Alex Bretet

Overview of this book

Spring MVC is a lightweight application framework that comes with a great configuration by default. Being part of the Spring Framework, it naturally extended and supported it with an amazing set of recognizable annotations. External libraries can be plugged in and plugged out. It also possesses a request flow. Complete support of REST web services makes the Spring architecture an extremely consistent choice to support your front-end needs and Internet transformations. From the design of your Maven modules, you will achieve an Enterprise-standard for a stateless REST application based on Spring and Spring MVC with this book. This guide is unique in its style as it features a massive overview of practical development techniques brought together from the Spring ecosystem, the new JEE standards, the JavaScript revolution and Internet of Things. You will begin with the very first steps of Spring MVC's product design. Focused on deployment, viability, and maintainability, you will learn the use of Eclipse, Maven, and Git. You will walk through the separation of concerns driven by the microservices principles. Using Bootstrap and AngularJS, you will develop a responsive front-end, capable of interacting autonomously with a REST API. Later in the book, you will setup the Java Persistence API (JPA) within Spring; learn how to configure your Entities to reflect your domain needs, and discover Spring Data repositories. You will analyze how Spring MVC responds to complex HTTP requests. You will implement Hypermedia and HATEOAS to guide your customer's stateless conversation with the product and see how a messaging-service based on WebSocket can be configured. Finally you will learn how to set up and organize different levels of automated-tests, including logging and monitoring.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Spring MVC Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Adapting users and roles to Spring Security


We have thought interesting to split apart this section, since users and roles are usually borderline between the application and Spring Security.

Getting ready

In this recipe, we will install the Spring Security dependencies and update the User Entity. We will also create an Authority entity that is based on a custom Role enum that we created. Finally, we update the init.sql script to add a set of existing users.

How to do it...

  1. From the Git Perspective in Eclipse, checkout the latest version of the branch v5.x.x. Then, run a maven clean install command on the cloudstreetmarket-parent module (right-click on the module, go to Run as… | Maven Clean, and then navigate to Run as… | Maven Install). Execute a Maven Update Project to synchronize Eclipse with the maven configuration (right-click on the module and then navigate to Maven | Update Project…).

    Note

    You will notice a few changes both in the frontend and backend of the code.

  2. Spring Security comes with...