Spring Web Flow 2: flow redirect

needed : proper mapping definition

e.g.
epb5-servlet.xml

<!-- Spring MVC -->
<bean id="handlerMapping"
class="org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.SimpleUrlHandlerMapping">
<property name="mappings">
<props>
<prop key="/loginform.htm">flowController</prop>
<prop key="/jobheaderform.htm">flowController</prop>
</props>
</property>
</bean>



to redirect from loginform flow to jobheaderform flow:
e.g.in loginform.xml:
<view-state id="jobHeaderView" view="flowRedirect:jobheaderform.htm?jobId=15438">
</view-state>

where jobId is defined as an input in jobheaderform flow:
<input name="jobId" required="true" />

notes on Spring Web Flow

1) Spring Web Flow 1.0 and Spring Web Flow 2.0 are different as e.g. Struts 1 and Struts 2. i.e. there is no compatibility
2) having trouble with the latest version of Spring Web Flow 2 and Spring 3 -> an app implemented with an older version is not working with the libs from the latest distributions
3) web flow definition -> in a state, there may be only one evaluate -> the second one is not executed, the flow fails

Web App testing - SeleniumHQ

http://seleniumhq.org/

Apache Ivy

http://ant.apache.org/ivy/
dependency management that is easily integrated with ant

Having Fun with Spring Roo

it is really funny ... to build java projects ... from command prompt....

http://s3.springsource.com/MRKT/roo/2010-01-Five_Minutes_Roo.mov

maven - Oracle JDBC driver dependency

e.g. we'd like to use ojdbc14.jar for Oracle 10.2.0.1.0

1) install jdbc driver in mvn repository

mvn install:install-file -Dfile={ORACLE_HOME}/jdbc/lib/ojdbc14.jar -Dpackaging=jar -DgroupId=com.oracle -DartifactId=ojdbc14 -Dversion=10.2.0.1.0

2) specify dependency in pom.xml

<dependency>
<groupId>com.oracle</groupId>
<artifactId>ojdbc14</artifactId>
<version>10.2.0.1.0</version>
</dependency>

other people's blogs

http://joelonsoftware.com/
to check Painless Functional Specifications in particular

http://www.gridshore.nl/


http://www.andygibson.net/articles/seam_spring_comparison/html/ch02.html

unfortunately again about Spring Web Flow 1:
http://www.cakesolutions.net/teamblogs/2008/07/16/spring-webflow-passing-objects-between-parent-flow-and-subflows/

http://forum.springsource.org/archive/index.php/t-39048.html

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Struts 2:
http://cse-mjmcl.cse.bris.ac.uk/blog/2007/09/10/1189430125294.html

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http://denis-zhdanov.blogspot.com/2009/09/standalone-tomcat6-based-web.html


http://paulszulc.wordpress.com

getting familiar with spring

Spring in Action, 2nd edition, Craig Walls
notes

DI - Dependency Injection
AOP - Aspect-Oriented Programming

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EJB 3.0 specs
Expert One-on-One: J2EE Design and Development, Rod Johnson
templating frameworks Velocity, FreeMaker
AOP Alliance interfaces, AspectJ
JMX Java Management Extension
JCA Java EE Connector API
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