Spring

Submitted by Barnaby Golden on Wed, 30 Apr 2014 10:15

Spring

Spring started out as an inversion of control container but has expanded in to many useful components:

Dependency injection
Aspects
Spring MVC (for Web development)
Authentication and authorization
Transaction management

Dependency injection is at the heart of things and is a very useful addition to the Java language. In particular it helps to ensure that code is flexible, extensible and easier to test.

Spring MVC application with Cucumber and Selenium part 3

Submitted by Barnaby Golden on Mon, 24 Jun 2013 11:39

So far we have built a simple Spring MVC web application and added a Cucumber based acceptance test. The next step is to add in a Selenium based Cucumber acceptance test. First we add in some Cucumber scenarios. Here is the feature file:

Spring MVC application with Cucumber and Selenium part 2

Submitted by Barnaby Golden on Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:46

With the basic application in place it is now time to focus on testing. First up we add a Cucumber acceptance test. It is a good idea to keep your acceptance tests separate from your unit tests, so I tend to run them in the integration-test phase of Maven. To do this use the failsafe plugin, adding something like this to your pom:

Spring MVC application with Cucumber and Selenium part 1

Submitted by Barnaby Golden on Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:23

Part 1 - Build a simple Spring MVC application

This is a multi-part posting on building a reference web application.

The focus here is on tools and process rather than the actual functionality.

Bootstrap a simple Maven project (easiest in Eclipse with the M2Eclipse plugin).

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