Table Of ContentSpring Cookbook
Over 100 hands-on recipes to build Spring web applications easily and efficiently
Jérôme Jaglale
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
Spring Cookbook
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About the Author
Jérôme Jaglale is a web developer based in Vancouver, Canada. He has spent the last 10
years working with several web frameworks, including Struts, CodeIgniter, and Laravel, and
doing frontend work with CSS and JavaScript that is focused on user experience.
He's currently working at Simon Fraser University on a prototype of iReceptor, a scientific
gateway federating immune genetics databases in order to help researchers answer complex
questions about immune response.
I would like to thank Laurent Conin and Michel Mac Wing at Orika for
introducing me to Spring in 2005.
I would like to express my thanks to Daniel Sheinin at 7th Floor Media
for encouraging me to learn more about Spring in 2007. It resulted
in Spring MVC Fast Tutorial, the most popular tutorial on
http://jeromejaglale.com.
I would also like to thank Brian Corrie at IRMACS for giving me some time to
work on this book.
I am grateful to Ajinkya Paranjape and the Packt Publishing staff for their
hard work.
I would like to express my gratitude to everyone else indirectly related to the
making of this book: my parents, family, co-workers, and friends.
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About the Reviewers
Alexandre Arcanjo de Queiroz is a Brazilian software developer who graduated
from the Faculty of Technology of Sao Paulo, a renowned institution in his country. He has
experience in developing backend and frontend applications using the Java EE platform in the
Unix environment.
Currently, he is working at Geofusion. It is the leader in geomarketing in Brazil and offers an
online platform called OnMaps, which is indispensable for companies seeking expansion and
assistance in more accurate decision making.
I would like to thank my family who support me in every moment of my life
and my friends who believe in my potential.
Stanojko Markovik is an accomplished software engineer, team leader, and
solutions architect.
Although he is versatile in many technologies across the board, he specializes in Spring for
enterprise apps and Android for mobile.
He's keen on building high-performance applications that are optimized in all layers and are
used by millions of users across all continents.
He's currently working at Dashlane, building the best password manager in the world in order
to rid users of their need to enter another password ever again. The app he is building has
been featured on the Google Play Store multiple times and is used by millions of users.
Stanojko was also the technical reviewer for Instant Spring for Android Starter, a book that
explains how to use the Spring framework on the Android platform.
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Bert Van den Brande is a passionate developer with almost 15 years of experience in the
software consultancy world. He has been working in the telecoms industry for the last 4 years.
He started his career as a Java and Smalltalk developer. For the last half a decade, his focus
has been on Java, Groovy, and team coaching.
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Table of Contents
Preface v
Chapter 1: Creating a Spring Application 1
Introduction 1
Installing Java, Maven, Tomcat, and Eclipse on Mac OS 2
Installing Java, Maven, Tomcat, and Eclipse on Ubuntu 5
Installing Java, Maven, Tomcat, and Eclipse on Windows 8
Creating a Spring web application 13
Running a Spring web application 16
Using Spring in a standard Java application 18
Chapter 2: Defining Beans and Using Dependency Injection 23
Introduction 23
Defining a bean explicitly with @Bean 24
Defining a bean implicitly with @Component 25
Using a bean via dependency injection with @Autowired 27
Using a bean directly 28
Listing all beans 29
Using multiple configuration classes 30
Chapter 3: Using Controllers and Views 31
Introduction 32
Associating a route to a controller method 33
Using a JSP view 33
Passing attributes from a controller to a JSP view 36
Using dynamic route parameters in a controller method 36
Using a common prefix for the routes of a controller 37
Using a page template with Tiles 38
Executing some code before and after controllers using interceptors 43
Building multilingual pages 45
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