Ivan Lagunov's Blog

This article is devoted to an upgrade of a common JSF Spring application. Time flies and there is already Java EE 7 platform out and widely used. It's sometimes said that Spring framework has become legacy with appearance of Java EE 6. But it's out of scope of this post. Here I'm going to provide notes about the minimal changes that I found required for the upgrade of the application from JSF 1.2 to 2.1, from JSTL 1.1.2 to 1.2, from Servlet 2.4 to 3.0, from Spring 3.1.3 to 4.0.5, from RichFaces 3.3.3 to 4.3.7. It must be mentioned that the latest final RichFaces release 4.3.7 depends on JSF 2.1, JSTL 1.2 and Servlet 3.0.1 that dictated those versions. This post should not be considered as comprehensive but rather showing how I did the upgrade. See the links for more details. Jetty & Tomcat. JSTL. JSF & Facelets. Servlet. Spring framework. RichFaces. Jetty & Tomcat First, I upgraded the application to run with the latest servlet container versio...

This is one more tutorial on how to exploit DynamicReports reporting library in an existing web application. This time the application is based on  Cocoon 2.2 framework. This post is a continuation to the previous posts: Choosing Java reporting tool - part 2 and DynamicReports and Spring MVC integration . The complete code won't be provided here but only the essential code snippets together with usage remarks. First of all I'm writing the plan of this how to: Description of existing application data flow. Adding project dependencies. Implementing export servlet. Implementing XSLT extension for the export data source. Implementing XSLT for postprocessing. Modifying JX template. Modifying Cocoon sitemap. Description of existing application data flow Cocoon framework organizes data flow using the concept of pipelines. For details please refer to Cocoon documentation . My application uses the following component sequence in a pipeline: Standard JX template gener...

This is a tutorial on how to exploit DynamicReports reporting library in an existing  Spring MVC based web application. It's a continuation to the previous post where DynamicReports has been chosen as the most appropriate solution to implement an export feature in a web application (for my specific use case). The complete code won't be provided here but only the essential code snippets together with usage remarks. Also I've widely used this tutorial that describes a similar problem for an alternative reporting library. So let's turn to the implementation description and start with a short plan of this how-to: Adding project dependencies. Implementing the Controller part of the MVC pattern. Modifying the View part of the MVC pattern. Modifying web.xml. Adding project dependencies I used to apply Maven Project Builder throughout my Java applications, thus the dependencies will be provided in the Maven format. Maven project pom.xml file: net.sourcefo...