Category Archives: Spring Framework

Enterprise Spring Best Practices – Part 2 – Application Architecture

Posted on 8-July-2012 by Gordon

Our application components break down into two fundamental categories, the System and Problem Domains. System Domain – infrastructure components, the plumbing, this is Spring’s sweet spot! Problem Domain – business components, typically use-case driven, this is what most of developers … Continue reading →

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Enterprise Spring Best Practices – Part 1 – Project Config

Posted on 3-July-2012 by Gordon

Enterprise Spring Best Practices Series In part 1, let’s review project structure and configuration. Sections Project Directories Project Dependencies Smart Logging Running with Jetty and Tomcat Spring Configuration Files Complete Maven Config Valuable Maven Commands Further Reading Social Me Project … Continue reading →

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SpringSource Tool Suite FAQ

Posted on 12-June-2012 by Gordon

Eclipse is one of the most popular IDEs for Java & Spring application development. Spring has developed the Spring IDE plugin providing developers with Spring aware tooling for our projects. SpringSource Tool Suite = {    Eclipse + SpringIDE + M2Eclipse … Continue reading →

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Spring 3.1 Constructor Namespace

Posted on 12-June-2012 by Gordon

Spring Namespaces Spring provides several namespaces to simplify XML configuration, such as jdbc, tx, aop, etc. We Spring developers are already familiar with the required beans namespace. <beans> <bean id=”dataSource” class=”…”/> <bean id=”messagingProvider” class=”…”/> </beans> Spring Namespaces are defined at … Continue reading →

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Spring 3.1 Environment Profiles

Posted on 12-June-2012 by Gordon

Spring 3.1 Environment Profiles Profiles Spring 3.1 now includes support for the long awaited environment aware feature called profiles. Now we can activate profiles in our application, which allows us to define beans by deployment regions, such as “dev”, “qa”, … Continue reading →

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Unit Testing Spring with Mockito & PowerMock

Posted on 22-October-2011 by Gordon

Unit Testing Spring with Mockito & PowerMock I’ve updated my Spring Mockito Demo app that I demonstrate when teaching with a PowerMock of a final class with a static method. Demo Features Maven 3.0 Maven Enforcer plugin restricting use of … Continue reading →

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Simpler JPA with Spring Data-JPA

Posted on 1-August-2011 by Gordon

How to configure your Spring application with Simple CRUD configuration with Spring Data-JPA. 1. Add Spring Data-JPA to project configuration. In your Maven pom.xml file <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework.data</groupId> <artifactId>spring-data-jpa</artifactId> <version>1.2.0.RELEASE</version> </dependency> 2. Configure JPA Entity … @Entity public class Product { … Continue reading →

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SpringSource Tool Suite – Eclipse for Spring Developers

Posted on 6-July-2011 by Gordon

Spring developers using Eclipse should take a close look at SpringSource Tool Suite (STS). STS is a FREE IDE, based on Eclipse with many of the essential tool to assist Spring developers. http://www.springsource.com/developer/sts. The major plugin to Eclipse is Spring … Continue reading →

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Annotation Reference for Spring Projects

Posted on 20-May-2011 by Gordon

Annotations are available for Spring and Java projects. I was unsuccessful in finding a single consolidated set of the annotations. So, I thought “What a great gap to fill.” However, what I thought would be a fairly simple endeavor, turned … Continue reading →

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Spring Expression Language (SpEL) Predefined Variables

Posted on 12-May-2011 by Gordon

Spring 3.0 introduced Spring Expression Language (SpEL). There are two variables that you have available “systemProperties” and “systemEnvironment“. SpEL allows us to access information from our beans and system beans information at runtime (late binding). These can be applied to … Continue reading →

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