Integrating Spring, Velocity and Tiles
I like Tiles and I heard a lot about Velocity. They seem to serve different purpose and reportedly are easily married together, so I decided to give it a shot and use them both in Spring web app. The...
View ArticleTesting Spring & Hibernate Without XML
I’m very keen on the improvements in Spring 3 that eventually let you move away from XML into plain Java configuration with proper support from IDE and compiler. It doesn’t change the fact that Spring...
View ArticleSpring & Velocity Tools (No XML)
A few months ago I wrote about integrating Spring, Velocity and Tiles. I discovered that one bit was missing from there: Velocity Tools. Two hours of yak shaving, frantic googling and source reading...
View ArticleSpring: @EnableWebMvc and JSR-303
I’ve been happily using XML-free Spring with Web MVC, right until the moment when I wanted to plug in JSR-303 validation. Failure I imported validation-api and hibernate-validator to my project. I...
View Article“Spring Data. Modern Data Access for Enterprise Java” (Book Review)
Spring Data is a relatively young set of tools that seems to be quickly gaining popularity. I got introduced to it by Oliver Gierke at 33rd Degree Conference and immediately got really interested (not...
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