Spring by Example Update (1.3)

I've been working on this off and on for a long time, but I finally have a Spring by Example site update ready. It's using Spring Framework 3.2.x and most major libraries are all upgraded. The biggest changes are to the Contact Application, which now references SBE REST Modules (available on Spring by Example's GitHub), which I will document on the site shortly. The Contact Application also has a better production ready DB connection pool configuration and upgrades the Jackson JSON mapper & view.

I did also try to create a shared base for messages/response for the JAXB beans, but I ran into some issues generating them in the Contact Application. The Fluent API doesn't look at parent classes when generating the '.withXXX' methods. It does look like it would be simple to customize the JAXB plugin to fix this, but I didn't want to take the time right now.

Below are the Contact Application modules.

• DAO - DB Schema, JPA Entities, Spring Data JPA repositories.
• Web Service Beans - JAXB beans generated from XSDs.
• Services - APIs use JAXB beans and Dozer is used to convert between this beans and the JPA entities. Security and transactions are configured in this layer.
• REST Services - The module has clients & controllers, as well as their Spring configurations. JSON and XML views are supported for requests.
• Webapp - The webapp as a standard JSP UI, Sencha ExtJS, and also a Sencha Touch UI.
• Test - The DAO, Services, and REST Services all have an abstract test class for each module that each test extends. This way within each module, all tests have a shared context so Spring only has to load once. All of these tests use an in memory database and the REST Services have an embedded jetty server. REST Services tests can be run with clients using JSON or XML for marshalling.