Spring has a number of interesting modules for web application development, including Spring Web MVC, Spring Web Flow, Spring JavaScript, and Spring Faces. This session will provide an overview of these modules and show how they relate to one another. By the end of this session, you'll understand how Spring simplifies the development and deployment of rich web applications. You'll also gain a glimpse into the roadmap for Spring Web 3.0.

Spring Web MVC is a popular web framework, and the base platform for powering Spring-based web applications.
Version 2.5 introduces significant new features that simplify the core MVC programming model, including support for annotated @Controllers.

Also building on the Spring MVC platform are a number of interesting extensions. Spring Web Flow 2 adds significant new features for implementing flows within a Spring MVC-based app. Spring Faces, a new module, provides groundbreaking support for JavaServerFaces in a familiar Spring MVC environment. And last but not last least, Spring Javascript, a new module, integrates leading UI toolkits such as Dojo into a Spring MVC environment.

Come to this session to get an update on the state of Spring Web, see how to put these technologies into practice, and learn what's coming in Spring Web 3.0.

Web Flow is a Spring Web MVC extension that allows you to define Controllers using a higher-order domain-specific-language. This language is designed to model user interactions that require several requests into the server to complete, or may be invoked from different contexts. This session dives deep into the features of the Web Flow definition language, and illustrates how to use it to create sophisticated controller modules.

In this session you will learn: - How to implement reusable controller modules as self-contained bundles that can be refreshed without container restart - How to solve the back button problem and duplicate submit problem - How to handle Ajax events and render partial responses - How to simply data access concerns and prevent lazy loading exceptions by using flow-managed persistence - How to secure flows, including their startup - How to test your controller logic - General best-practices for designing and implementing flows - Techniques for achieving flow reuse, including use of flow definition inheritance - Guidelines for deploying flows alongside Spring Web MVC multi-action @Controllers - How to implement common user interaction patterns such as master detail, wizard, and tabbed UI.

Spring JavaScript is a JavaScript abstraction framework that allows you to progressively enhance a web page with behavior. The framework consists of a public JavaScript API along with an implementation that builds on the Dojo Toolkit. Spring.js aims to simplify the use of Dojo for common enterprise scenarios while retaining its full-power for advanced use cases. Come to this session to learn to use Spring.js and Dojo to create compelling user interfaces.

This session will walk through using Spring.js to add a number of rich web capabilities to your applications, including: - Decorating standard HTML links and forms with Ajax events - Linking in partial updates to a page - Adding effects such as progress indicators, blinds, and popups - Performing client-side validation

In addition, you'll see how Spring.js can help with: - Gracefully degrading when JavaScript is not available - Meeting requirements for accessibility - Applying progressive enhancement techniques

Spring's approach to integrating JavaServerFaces technology is novel and innovative; an approach that lets you maximize your investment in Spring while still adhere to standard JSF idioms. In this session, Keith will go "behind the scenes" and explore the framework architecture underpinning Spring's JSF integration. Attendees will gain valuable framework design and architectural insight.

A deep-dive design session into how Spring and JSF integrate, and how the integration has evolved over the years.