Green Beans: Getting Started with Spring Integration
Applications don't exist in a vacuum. They need to communicate with their customers and with other applications. Application Integration is all about enabling this communication. Integration lets applications share services and data with each other, and, just as often, integration helps applications connect with their users. Spring Integration provides a framework to build integration solutions, Read more…
Green Beans: Getting Started with Enterprise Messaging and Spring
In this post, we will introduce the core concepts of messaging, as well as the rich support for various types of messaging that the Spring framework and its sister projects provide. What is Messaging? To best explain this, I'll paraphrase the example offered by the groundbreaking Enterprise Integration Patterns book by Gregor Hohpe and Bobby Read more…
Green Beans: Getting Started with Maven and Spring
Apache Maven is a popular open source tool that offers a convention-over-configuration approach to project build management. Indeed the Eclipse Community Surveys show Maven increased its adoption from 8% in 2009 to 28% in 2010, underscoring its usefulness in a wide range of project settings. Even though you can use Spring without using Maven, there Read more…
Green Beans: Getting Started with Spring in your Service Tier
All applications stem from a domain model. The term "domain model" describes the nouns, or data, in a system that is important to the problem you're trying to solve. The service tier – where business logic lives – manipulates the application data and must ultimately persist it (typically, in a database). The explanation is simple, Read more…
Green Beans: Getting Started with Spring MVC
Spring MVC, a part of the core Spring Framework, is a mature and capable action-response style web framework, with a wide range of capabilities and options aimed at handling a variety of UI-focused and non-UI-focused web tier use cases. All this can potentially be overwhelming to the Spring MVC neophyte. I think it's useful for Read more…
Green Beans: Putting the Spring in Your Step (and Application)
The Spring framework emerged as a de-facto standard in 2003 and has been helping people build bigger, better applications with cleaner code ever since. In this post, we will discuss the options available to you for configuring an application using the Spring component model. We will grow a simple application from the simplest form and Read more…
