I recently came across a blog post describing how *not* to use the Spring Web MVC form tag library. Spring Web MVC is one of those things that has a high learning curve but it pays off big once you get the hang of it. The form tag library is no exception. The original blog poster seems to want to display a list of things the form user can manipulate and then send the changes back to the app server. There are a few different ways we can do this with Spring Web MVC and some JSTL libraries so let’s take a look at the way I prefer to do it. (more…)

February 13th, 2008 | Java, spring | 3 comments

I just read this thread on The Server Side and it makes me nervous that people still ask this kind of question. The thread starts off by asking “An usually annoying question when designing an action-based web application is: “Should I place everything in my action or should I separate the web logic from the business logic?” and the alarm bells in my head are going off already. (more…)

February 8th, 2008 | Java | No comments