Spring Data JPA Tutorial: Configuration

After we have declared the required dependencies in our POM file, we have to configure the application context of our Spring application. This blog post describes how we can configure the persistence layer of a Spring application that uses Spring Data JPA and Hibernate. Let’s get started. Additional Reading: If you are not familiar with […] Read more

There Are No Small Projects

How often have your heard one of the following phrases: This is a small project so we will just have to put something together and FAST. Big projects need to be designed in a totally different manner than small ones. This is just a campaign product / prototype which is used only once. We can […] Read more

Creating RESTful Urls with Spring MVC 3.1 Part Three: UrlRewriteFilter

This blog entry describes how you can create RESTful url addresses to your web application with Spring MVC 3.1 and UrlRewriteFilter. In other words, the url addresses of your application must fulfill following requirements: An url address must have a suffix in it (in other words, an url address most not contain a suffix like […] Read more

Creating RESTful Urls with Spring MVC 3.1 Part One: default-servlet-handler

This blog entry describes how you can create a web application which has restful url addresses by using Spring MVC 3.1 and the default-servlet-handler element of MVC XML namespace. The requirements for RESTful urls are given in following: An url address must no have suffix in it (in other words, an url address most not […] Read more

Implementing a Custom Naming Strategy With Hibernate

As all of you who are familiar with Hibernate know, not all entity annotations are mandatory. These non mandatory annotations include @Table and @Column annotations. However, even though these annotations are not required, leaving them out has never been an option for me. I simply don't like the table and column names which are generated […] Read more