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Created by Fang on June 05, 2012 09:12:36
Last update: June 05, 2012 09:13:03
The apache.commons.lang package has a nice utility to escape strings for various language environments. Simply include the dependency in pom.xml :
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.commons</...
and use it:
// import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringEscapeUti...
Created by Fang on April 16, 2012 13:32:10
Last update: April 16, 2012 13:32:10
There are two steps to create a custom function for JSP:
Declare the function in the TLD:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<taglib...
Implement the function (must be static):
package com.example;
public class UrlTransl...
To use the function:
<%@ taglib uri="http://www.example.com/jsp/tags" p...
Created by Fang on March 30, 2012 15:04:04
Last update: March 30, 2012 15:04:04
Spring MVC 3.1 can send either JSON or HTML response on the same URL, depending on the type of response requested. With this mechanism, a page can be sent when directly requested from a link, but a JSON response can be sent in response to an AJAX request. This is the controller code:
package com.example; import java.util.Map; ... In the above example, JSON response will be sent when the HTTP request contains header "Accept: application/json". HTML response will be sent then the header is "Accept: */*", or "Accept: text/html", or anything else. You can add a limitation that the HTML response does not produce "application/json". But then the question is which response will be sent when the HTTP header is "Accept: */*"? Both methods will...
Created by Fang on March 30, 2012 10:23:21
Last update: March 30, 2012 10:23:21
These bean types are essential for the Spring MVC framework. I copied them here from the Spring Documentation for quick reference. Bean type Explanation HandlerMapping Maps incoming requests to handlers and a list of pre- and post-processors (handler interceptors) based on some criteria the details of which vary by HandlerMapping implementation. The most popular implementation supports annotated controllers but other implementations exists as well. HandlerAdapter Helps the DispatcherServlet to invoke a handler mapped to a request regardless of the handler is actually invoked. For example, invoking an annotated controller requires resolving various annotations. Thus the main purpose of a HandlerAdapter is to shield the DispatcherServlet from such details. HandlerExceptionResolver Maps exceptions to views also allowing for more complex exception handling code. ViewResolver Resolves logical String-based...
Created by Fang on February 21, 2012 20:54:23
Last update: February 21, 2012 20:57:57
Tomcat gzip compression filter can be turned on with " compression=on " in server.xml :
<Connector port="8080" protocol="HTTP/1.1"
...
The default compressed MIME types are: text/html,text/xml,text/plain .
It would be nice to add other types:
<Connector
port="8080"
protocol="HTT...
Created by Fang on February 21, 2012 20:33:58
Last update: February 21, 2012 20:33:58
You can customize Tomcat error page with error code:
<error-page>
<error-code>404</error-code>
...
or Java exception type:
<error-page>
<exception-type>java.lang.Throwab...
Either error-code or exception-type is required, but not both. There's no way to aggregate error codes, such as:
<!-- This does not work! -->
<error-page>
...
Customizing error pages is about the only way to suppress the default stack trace in Tomcat in case of an unhandled exception.
Created by Fang on January 31, 2012 15:40:34
Last update: January 31, 2012 15:41:28
This is a simple Hello World application with Spring 3 MVC. Like the default Apache HTTPd welcome page, it displays " It works! " when successfully deployed. The sole purpose is to show the minimum elements needed to setup Spring 3 MVC.
I use Maven since it's so much easier than downloading the dependencies manually.
Directory layout:
./src
./src/main
./src/main/webapp
./src/...
pom.xml :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project...
WEB-INF/web.xml :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app...
WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml (empty, but needed):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans x...
WEB-INF/spring-servlet.xml :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans x...
WEB-INF/jsp/home.jsp :
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>H...
Build with:
mvn clean package
The resulting webapp is target/springmvc.war .
Created by Fang on January 28, 2012 13:24:09
Last update: January 28, 2012 13:31:22
This is a simple JSP custom tags library with tag body. Just like the JSF counterpart , it splits a string and repeats the body for each word, i.e., with this markup:
<%@ taglib uri="http://custom.tag.com/demo" prefix...
output:
<html>
<body>
<p>Hello Tigger!</p>
<p>H...
With Maven, this is the directory structure:
./src
./src/main
./src/main/resources
./s...
There are three files to write:
pom.xml :
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"...
src/main/java/tagdemo/IterateTag.java :
package tagdemo;
import java.io.IOException...
src/main/resources/META-INF/demotag.tld :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DO...
Build with:
mvn clean install
To use it as a dependency in other Maven projects:
<dependency>
<groupId>tag-demo</groupId>
...
Created by Fang on January 04, 2012 11:14:46
Last update: January 04, 2012 11:14:46
Assume that your messages are defined in MessageResources.properties , this is how you load and use the messages:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Stric...
In MessageResources.properties :
pageTitle = JSF Resource Bundle Example
page.he...
Created by Fang on January 04, 2012 09:54:05
Last update: January 04, 2012 09:54:05
There are two ways to validate a form with JSF: jsf validation on the page with <f:validate...> tags (for example: <f:validateLength> , <f:validateRegex> , etc.), or JSR303 bean validation. This note is about how to customize messages for JSR303 bean validation. The validation message is specified in the message attribute for each validation annotation type. The mesage attribute is not a literal string, but a string that is interpolated in various ways. For example, the default validation message for AssertFalse is {javax.validation.constraints.AssertFalse.message} , which is replaced with the corresponding string in ValidationMessages.properties (or ValidationMessages_tr.properties , ValidationMessages_es.properties , depending on the locale). This is the contents of ValidationMessages.properties in the hibernate validator reference implementation:
javax.validation.constraints.AssertFalse.message =... To customize the messages, just provide the new value in...
