Presentations

Overview of Spring 3.0 Web Stack

Spring provides a full open-source stack for building, running, and managing web applications on the Java platform. This session provides an overview of this stack and shows how the pieces fit together. Attendees learn how Spring simplifies the development and deployment of enterprise web applications.

Spring Web MVC is a popular web framework, and the foundation of the Spring 3 Web Stack. Version 3.0 of Spring MVC introduces major new features, including support for annotated @Controllers, comprehensive REST support, convention-over-configuration, an enhanced data binding and UI messaging facility, and declarative validation support. This presentation shows you how to apply these core features to gain development productivity and implementation consistency.

Building on Spring MVC are a number of interesting modules. Spring Web Flow adds significant power for implementing multi-step flows within a Spring MVC-based app. Spring Javascript integrates leading UI toolkits such as Dojo for adding Ajax behaviors to your web application. Spring BlazeDS integration allows you to build Spring-powered RIAs with Flex. This presentation provides you an overview of these technologies, and shows you how to put these technologies into practice.

Attend this presentation to see what Spring offers Java web application developers!

Working with Spring Web Flow

Web Flow is a Spring Web MVC extension that allows you to define Controllers using a higher-order domain-specific-language. This language is designed to model user interactions that require several requests into the server to complete, or may be invoked from different contexts. This session dives deep into the features of the Web Flow 2 definition language, and illustrates how to use it to create sophisticated controller modules.

In this session you will learn:

* How to implement reusable controller modules as self-contained bundles that can be refreshed without container restart
* How to handle Ajax events and render partial responses
* How to secure flows, including their startup
* How to simply data access concerns and prevent lazy loading exceptions by using flow-managed persistence
* How to test your flow logic
* General best-practices for designing and implementing flows
* Guidelines for deploying flows alongside Spring Web MVC multi-action @Controllers