Annotation Driven Portlet
Development w/Spring
Andy Pemberton,

Agenda
• Spring Portlet MVC 2.5
• Annotations
• Goodies
• Real World
• Demo
• Coming Soon

Spring Portlet MVC
• Design Pattern
• Model View Controller
• Front Controller

Spring Portlet MVC
• JSR 168 - Portlet 1
• JSR 286 - Portlet 2
• Two Phase
• CapTech State Pattern

Spring Portlet MVC
• Dependency Injection
• applicationContext.xml
• *-portlet.xml

Spring Portlet MVC
• Web MVC > Portlet MVC
• Flexible ViewResolver
• Binding
• i18n

Old School

Old School
• Improvement, but...
• Pre-Java 5 constructs
• “Programming in XML”

New School

Spring Portlet
Annotations
• Web
• @Controller
• @RequestMapping
• @ModelAttribute
• DI
• @Component, @Service

Other Spring Goodies
• Flexible method signatures
• Spring portlet filters
• Form and error tags
• <component-scan />

springmodules
• Spring integration framework
• Validation, JCR, Cache
• https://springmodules.dev.java.net/

Real World
• Challenges: 168 IPC, learning curve
• Leverage existing conventions
• Method signature standards
• EAR-wide applicationContext

Coming Soon...
• Tooling
• Eclipse (IBM RAD)
• JSR286, Spring 3
• Bleeding Edge
• Seam portlets, JSR301, Guice

Get in Touch
• www.andypemberton.com
• aim: apembertonhsc
• apemberton@messaging.captechventures.com