Expert Spring MVC and Web Flow

Summary In this chapter we introduced the view part of an MVC application. We looked at what the responsibility of a view is, wh ...

Supported View Types Spring provides first-class support for the majority of view technologies that you’re likely to want to use ...

Listing 8-1.Setting Up the InternalResourceViewResolver in the WebApplicationContext <bean id="viewResolver" class="org.sprin ...

Iterator it = model.entrySet().iterator(); while (it.hasNext()) { Map.Entry entry = (Map.Entry) it.next(); if (!(entry.getKey() ...

<%= special.getArriveAt().getName() %> from $<%= special.getCost() %> </li> <% } %> </ul> </bod ...

Figure 8-1.Flight departures output JSP Tag Libraries Spring provides a set of JSP tag libraries for use in your applications. T ...

Forms Chapter 6 had a recap of the generic work flow used by Spring when you submit a form to one of your command Controllers. L ...

Figure 8-2.BindStatus attributes and operations ■NoteThere is a distinction between failure in binding and failure in validation ...

Listing 8-7.Binding Without Nesting Paths <spring:bind path="complexCommand.collection.item"> <input type="text" name=" ...

When she resubmits the form, the check box field is not transmitted at all, and so Spring doesn’t bind a value to it. •Now, he ...

Listing 8-10.Default HTML Escaping Value Set in web.xml <web-app> <context-param> <param-name>defaultHtmlEscap ...

Tiles Let’s take a brief look at Tiles integration before moving to non-JSP view types. Tiles allows you to define separate page ...

For your Tiles views, Spring provides org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles. TilesView,and you can use this as the viewClas ...

Summary Tiles is a rich technology for creating components in your web pages, and our overview of Spring’s Tiles support doesn’t ...

■NoteThe Eclipse IDE (and consequently IBM’s WSAD) can be extended with support for both Velocity and FreeMarker template editin ...

<bean id="freemarkerResolver" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.freemarker.FreeMarkerViewResolver"> ■CautionT ...

Exposing the Model As always, the specific Viewimplementation is responsible for knowing what to do with a model generated by yo ...

$${special.cost} </li> </#list> </ul> Search for a flight. As you can see, it’s not terribly difficult to get ...

■NoteCheck the relevant Velocity and FreeMarker documentation at their respective websites to see the range of properties and se ...

■Tip You can specify exactly the same values on either FreeMarkerViewResolveror VelocityViewResolver.All Views resolved by the r ...