This is the second part of my blog on how to develop an application using Elasticsearch, Spring MVC and Sencha Touch 2. In my previous blog post part 1 I showed and explained which technologies I used to accomplish the connection between the frontend and backend. In addition I presented the steps to connect a […]
Session Timeout and Concurrent Session Control with Spring Security and Spring-MVC
A web application me and my team are building recently underwent a security review. As usual, because you haven’t yet had time to put any real effort into it, some security risks did surface. We use Spring Security and Spring-MVC and I will talk about implementing a session timeout and concurrent session control: nice subjects […]
Properly testing Spring MVC controllers
In this post I want to introduce you to the Spring MVC testing framework, a way to properly test your Spring MVC controllers.
Creating a mobile version of your website with Spring Mobile and Sitemesh
About a year ago I developed an Android app for my website, but as not everybody has an Android device I wanted to create a mobile version of my website. In the mobile version I want to present slightly different data to make it look more like the app. In this post I will show […]
Use immutable objects in your Spring MVC controller by implementing your own WebArgumentResolver
How flexible is Spring MVC in combination with immutable objects? Why don’t we want Spring MVC decide for us how to build our objects used for binding? Curious how we tackled this problem? Read on! In our current project we are using Spring MVC 3 to build our frond-end. The binding mechanism of Spring MVC […]
Using the Spring RESTTemplate with Jackson
About a week a go I wrote a blog post on gridshore about the NOS open data API. Most of the technical items are explained in that post. In this post I want to tell you about the small library I have created around the NOS open data REST based API. With this client it […]
Connecting to FTP server with Spring Integration
For one of our project I needed to read zip files from a FTP server and import the content in a system. In this post I will explain how I have used the Spring Integration to connect with a FTP server and retrieve Zip files.
Simple forms with Spring MVC 2.5
Having used the Spring MVC 2.5 webframework for a while now, I felt the urge to blog about some of the experiences I had with it. Especially about the part concerning forms, validation, binding and property editors. That’s the part that was usually provided to you by the SimpleFormController (in the ‘old’ Spring MVC). But […]