Expert Spring MVC and Web Flow

■CONTENTS xiii

• ■CHAPTER 1 Introduction Acknowledgments xviii
  
  
  • Skipping Ahead
  
  
  • How to View This Book
  
  
  • Roadmap
  
  
  • Target Audience
  
  
  • For More Information
    
    
    • Sample Applications
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Spring 2.0
  
  
  • Summary
  
  
  
  


• ■CHAPTER 2 Spring Fundamentals
  
  
  • Inversion of Control
    
    
    • IoC Example
    
    
    • Summary
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Dependency Injection
    
    
    • Service Locator
    
    
    • Dependency Injection
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Spring ApplicationContexts
  
  
  • The Return of the POJO
  
  
  • Impact on Web Applications
  
  
  • Summary
  
  
  
  


• ■CHAPTER 3 Spring MVC Application Architecture.
  
  
  • Layers of Abstractions
    
    
    • Layer Isolation
    
    
    • Java Interface As Layer Contract
    
    
    • Layers in a Spring MVC Application
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Options: There’s More Than One Way to Do It
  
  
  
  


• ■CHAPTER 4 Jump into Spring MVC
  
  
  • Use Cases
    
    
    • Service Interface
    
    
    • Use Case #1
    
    
    • Use Case #2
    
    
    • Summary
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Web Components
    
    
    • JAR Dependencies
    
    
    • Controllers
    
    
    • Views
    
    
    • ModelAndView
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Building the Home Page Use Case
    
    
    • Spring MVC Components
    
    
    • Web Application Configuration
    
    
    • Start the Application
    
    
    • Request Handling Sequence
    
    
    • Summary
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Building the Search for Flights Use Case
    
    
    • SimpleFormController
    
    
    • SearchFlightsController
    
    
    • Form View
    
    
    • Spring JSP Tags
    
    
    • Success View
    
    
    • Summary
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Now Let’s Learn How to Swim
  
  
  
  


• ■CHAPTER 5 The Processing Pipeline
  
  
  • Processing Requests
    
    
    • Request Work Flow
    
    
    • Functionality Overview
    
    
    • Pieces of the Puzzle
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Summary
  
  
  
  


• ■CHAPTER 6 The Controller Menagerie
  
  
  • Introduction
  
  
  • The Controller Interface and Implementations
    
    
    • A Look at Design
    
    
    • AbstractController
    
    
    • Summary
    
    
    • BaseCommandController
    
    
    • Binding a Form to a Bean
    
    
    • Summary
    
    
    • SimpleFormController and Handling Forms
    
    
    • Redirect After Submit Pattern
    
    
    • MultiActionController
    
    
    • AbstractWizardFormController
    
    
    • ThrowawayController
    
    
    • ValidatableThrowawayController
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • HandlerInterceptors
    
    
    • HandlerInterceptor Example
    
    
    • Summary
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Controllers Summary
  
  
  
  


• ■CHAPTER 7 The View Layer
  
  
  • What’s in a View
    
    
    • Treating Views in Isolation
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Spring’s View Interface
    
    
    • Implementing View
    
    
    • Views and Controllers: Happily Divorced
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • ViewResolvers
    
    
    • Putting View Resolution in Context
    
    
    • Types of ViewResolver
    
    
    • Making ViewResolvers Known to the Dispatcher
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • A Word on Redirecting
  
  
  • Themes
    
    
    • ThemeSources
    
    
    • ThemeResolvers
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Internationalization in the View Layer
    
    
    • Locale Resolution
    
    
    • MessageSource Beans
    
    
    • View Resolution
    
    
    • Theme Resolution
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Bind Support
    
    
    • Recap of Binding and Validation Sequence
    
    
    • Bind Support in View Templates
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Summary
  
  
  
  


• ■CHAPTER 8 Supported View Types
  
  
  • JSP and JSTL
    
    
    • Exposing the Model As Request Attributes
    
    
    • Displaying the Model
    
    
    • JSP Tag Libraries
    
    
    • Forms
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Tiles
    
    
    • Summary
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Velocity and FreeMarker
    
    
    • Templating Pros and Cons
    
    
    • Basic Configuring for Template Engines
    
    
    • Exposing the Model
    
    
    • The Template Language
    
    
    • Advanced Configuration Options
    
    
    • Forms and the SpringBind Macros
    
    
    • Number and Date Tools
    
    
    • Additional Velocity Views
    
    
    • Summary
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • XML and XSLT
    
    
    • Defining an XSLT View
    
    
    • Transforming the XML Source
    
    
    • Returning XML in the Raw
    
    
    • Other Noteworthy XSLT Features
    
    
    • Summary
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • PDF
    
    
    • Configuring the Application to Use a PDF View
    
    
    • Template PDFs with FOP
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Excel
    
    
    • Creating the Template
    
    
    • Coding the View
    
    
    • Configuring the Application
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • JasperReports
    
    
    • Multiformat View
    
    
    • Populating the Report
    
    
    • Summary
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Creating New Views
  
  
  • Summary
  
  
  
  


• ■CHAPTER 9 Validation
  
  
  • Programmatic Validators
  
  
  • Declarative Validators
  
  
  • Message Sources
  
  
  • Validators and Business Logic
  
  
  • Errors Interface
  
  
  • Testing Validators
  
  
  • Summary
  
  
  
  


• ■CHAPTER 10 Testing Spring MVC Applications
  
  
  • Overview
    
    
    • Unit Tests
    
    
    • Unit Test Summary
    
    
    • Integration Tests
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Testing Summary
  
  
  
  


• ■CHAPTER 11 Introduction to Spring Web Flow
  
  
  • What Itch Does Spring Web Flow Scratch?
    
    
    • The Problem with the Servlet Specification
    
    
    • The Solution
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Not a Golden Hammer
  
  
  • The Big Picture
    
    
    • Architectural Overview
    
    
    • Inside the Spring Web Flow System
    
    
    • Different Scopes
    
    
    • Building Blocks
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Your First Flow
    
    
    • Installing Spring Web Flow
    
    
    • Proposed Flow Directory Structure
    
    
    • The Purchase Product Flow Definition
    
    
    • Implementing the First Step: View States
    
    
    • Transitions
    
    
    • Actions
    
    
    • Action Bean Definitions
    
    
    • Testing the Flow Execution
    
    
    • Extending AbstractFlowExecutionTests
    
    
    • Decision States
    
    
    • Action States
    
    
    • End States
    
    
    • The Purchase Product Flow: What’s Next
    
    
    • Spring MVC Deployment
    
    
    • The FlowController
    
    
    • FlowRegistry
    
    
    • Additional Configuration
    
    
    • View Template Resolution
    
    
    • View Template Requirements
    
    
    • Launching the Flow from the Browser
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Summary
    
    
    • Model Conversations
    
    
    • Allows for Extension
    
    
    • Testable
    
    
    • Identifying Flows (Easy, Natural Language)
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  


• ■CHAPTER 12 Advanced Spring Web Flow
  
  
  • Business Logic and Flows
    
    
    • Business Logic
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Flow Granularity
    
    
    • Subflows
    
    
    • Inline Flows
    
    
    • Summary
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Managing FlowExecutions
    
    
    • Integration with Web Frameworks
    
    
    • The FlowExecutionManager
    
    
    • FlowExecutions
    
    
    • FlowExecutionListener
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • FlowExecution Repositories
    
    
    • Continuations
    
    
    • FlowExecutionRepository Implementations
    
    
    • Stateful FlowExecution Repositories
    
    
    • Stateless FlowExecution Repositories
    
    
    • Conversation Invalidation After Completion
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • States and Transitions Revisited
    
    
    • Action States
    
    
    • POJO Actions
    
    
    • Exposing POJO Method Return Values
    
    
    • Customizing View Selection with View States and End States
    
    
    • Decision States
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Exception Handling
    
    
    • State Scoped ExceptionHandlers
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Exception Handling Summary
  
  
  • Summary
  
  
  
  


• ■APPENDIX A Documenting Your MVC Application
  
  
  • BeanDoc
    
    
    • Installing and Building BeanDoc
    
    
    • Running BeanDoc on Your Configuration Files
    
    
    • Other Options
    
    
    • Controlling the Output
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Summary
  
  
  
  


• ■APPENDIX B Ajax and DWR
  
  
  • Spring and DWR
  
  
  • A Practical Example
    
    
    • Configuration and Code Changes
    
    
    • Presentation File Changes
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • Accessibility
  
  
  • Summary
  
  
  
  


• ■INDEX.