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Contents at a Glance
 Foreword.............................................................................................................. xvi
 About the Authors.............................................................................................. xviii
 About the Technical Reviewer .............................................................................. xx
 Acknowledgments ............................................................................................... xxi
 Introduction ....................................................................................................... xxiii
 Chapter 1: Configuring a Spring Development Environment .................................1

 Chapter 2: Spring Framework Fundamentals .......................................................25
 Chapter 3: Web Application Architecture..............................................................51
 Chapter 4: Spring MVC Architecture.....................................................................65
 Chapter 5: Implementing Controllers..................................................................107
 Chapter 6: Implementing Controllers — Advanced ............................................177
 Chapter 7: REST and AJAX..................................................................................215
 Chapter 8: Resolving and Implementing Views ..................................................237
 Chapter 9: Testing Spring MVC Applications ......................................................273
 Chapter 10: Spring Web Flow .............................................................................321
 Chapter 11: Building Applications with Spring Web Flow .................................373
 Chapter 12: Advanced Spring Web Flow.............................................................429
 Chapter 13: Spring Security................................................................................477
 Appendix: Cloud Foundry: Deploying to the Cloud.............................................535
 Index ...................................................................................................................555

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Contents
 Foreword.............................................................................................................. xvi
 About the Authors.............................................................................................. xviii
 About the Technical Reviewer .............................................................................. xx
 Acknowledgments ............................................................................................... xxi
 Introduction ....................................................................................................... xxiii
 Chapter 1: Configuring a Spring Development Environment .................................1
Prerequisites......................................................................................................................1
Java Development Kit............................................................................................................................... 2
Servlet Container ...................................................................................................................................... 2
Integrated Development Environment ...................................................................................................... 2

The Sample Application .....................................................................................................2
A Bookstore Sample Application .............................................................................................................. 3
The Build System...................................................................................................................................... 4
Building the Sample Application............................................................................................................... 6
Deploying the Sample Application............................................................................................................ 8

SpringSource Tool Suite (STS).........................................................................................10
Configuring STS for Gradle projects ....................................................................................................... 10
Importing the Sample into STS............................................................................................................... 12
Running the Application on the SpringSource vFabric tc Server............................................................ 17
Editing the Application............................................................................................................................ 19

Summary .........................................................................................................................22
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CHAPTER 1

Configuring a Spring
Development Environment
Before you can really start your journey into Spring MVC, you need to make sure you have your
development environment set up right. This chapter will begin by walking you through that process.
Next, it will provide some details about the sample bookstore application that ships with this book. But
before going into either the details of the development environment or the sample application, this
chapter will provide an overview of the prerequisites for your environment in general.
The sample application that ships with the book is used to explain the concepts of Spring MVC and
MVC in general. It is not intended to be a full-blown, ready-to-use production application; nor is it to be
used as a Java or full Spring Framework application. The main intent of the app is to help explain and
express the Spring MVC concepts used throughout the book.

Prerequisites
To build the sample application, you need to have a Java Development Kit (JDK) installed; and for
(standalone) deployment, you need a servlet container that supports version 3.0 of the Servlet
Specification (we chose to use Tomcat 7). To make development easier, you will need to use an
integrated development environment (IDE); for this book, we, the authors, chose to use the
SpringSource Tool Suite (STS). Table 1-1 lists the products and versions used while writing this book.
Development on the selected products still continues, so it might be that there is a newer version
available at the time you read this. However, there is nothing in the code that shouldn’t work on or with
newer versions of the software.
Table 1-1. Software Versions and Download Sites

Product

Version

Download

JDK

1.6.0 Update 31 www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html

Tomcat

7.0.26

/>
SpringSource Tool
Suite

2.9.0

www.springsource.com/developer/sts

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Chapter 13, “Spring Security,” shows how to keep the scruffy hackers out of our
web-application through the use of another well-established tool in the Spring
toolbox, Spring Security.

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Appendix A, “Cloud Foundry—Deploying to the Cloud.” In this appendix we
explain the steps needed to deploy the application to the cloud, especially to
Cloud Foundry, as that integrates seamlessly with our chosen development
environment.

A Thousand-Mile View of the Spring Ecosystem
So before going any further let's take the first peek at Spring MVC and where it fits into the existing
Spring ecosystem.
The first piece of good news is that Spring MVC is Spring. You configure Spring MVC using the
existing powerful Spring container. Beans defined in Spring MVC are just like any other beans.
The following image from is very helpful:

As you can see— Spring MVC is powered by the rest of Spring!

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Onward!
Now that you have an idea about the style and purpose of this book let's waste no more time in getting
you set up with a development environment. We’ll see you in Chapter 1.

Contacting the Authors
Marten Deinum can be contacted at for queries and suggestions for this book. His
blog can be found at . Feel free to contact him if you have found a
mistake, want to ask a question, or want to discuss anything else related to the book.
Koen Serneels can be contacted at for anything related to this book. If
you have suggestions, remarks, or questions, or have found something to be inaccurate, feel free to drop
him a message. His blog can be found at .

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