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Accessing Restful services. HTTP Message converters

When accessing to Restful services, the Spring class RestTemplate maintains a list of message converters. This list will be used to marshal objects into the request body, or unmarshalling them from the response. When instantiating the RestTemplate class, it automatically fills a list with several converters:

• ByteArrayHttpMessageConverter
• StringHttpMessageConverter
• ResourceHttpMessageConverter
• SourceHttpMessageConverter
• AllEncompassingFormHttpMessageConverter

Spring property-placeholder: External properties configuration

A common way of setting the configuration of the web application is by defining it in a properties file. We can find this file in the classpath. The way of doing this is using the PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer class, or simplifying the configuration, using the context namespace property-placeholder.

<context:property-placeholder location="datasource.properties"/>

That’s ok but, what if you need a different configuration...

Create and test REST services with Spring MVC

Spring Webflow: Embedding a flow in a modal JSF dialog

The latest version of Spring Webflow (2.3.1) provides us with a new and very interesting functionality that I have really missed in my current project: embedded flows. By default, Webflow applies the POST/REDIRECT/GET pattern every time it enters a view state. The reason to do this is to prevent duplicate form submissions, but this also prevents us...

Testing Spring Webflow 2 with inheritance

This blog entry shows how to test a flow with inheritance in Spring Webflow 2. The flow to be tested consists of a simple navigation which starts with a view state and ends getting to another view state that will depend on the result of the execution of a controller. This flow extends another flow which basically contains...